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"It was th' ole Governor's way o' doin' it," said Leary, as though reading Archie's thoughts. "Ole Governor never made no mistakes. We ain't agoin' to make no mistakes now, doin' what he tole us not to do. I'll go back and bury that poor devil and cover up the place. I guess he's luckier bein' dead anyhow. An' then I'll wake up that other cuss an' get rid of 'im.
He thought her poor; and had thrown her aside like an old glove! Down-stairs the telephone rang. Old Mandy, coming up to say that Mr. Randy was on the wire, stood in amazement at the sight of Becky in the rosy wrap with her hair peaked up to a topknot. "Ain' you in baid?" she asked, superfluously. "No. Who wants me, Mandy?" "I tole you Mr. Randy." Becky deliberated. "I'll go down.
"'Bout dat time Sally Jackson, dat used to be my second chambermaid en 'uz head chambermaid now, she come out on de guard, en 'uz pow'ful glad to see me, en so 'uz all de officers; en I tole 'em I'd got kidnapped en sole down de river, en dey made me up twenty dollahs en give it to me, en Sally she rigged me out wid good clo'es, en when I got here I went straight to whah you used to wuz, en den I come to dis house, en dey say you's away but 'spected back every day; so I didn't dast to go down de river to Dawson's, 'ca'se I might miss you.
"One day a soldier stop me an says, 'Sister, where do you live? I tole him, den he says, 'I'm hungry. So I went an got him sompin to eat. "One time I was to be sold de next day, but de missy tole the man who cried the block not to sell me, but deh sold my mother and I didn't see her after dat till just befoh de war ovah.
She did not quite understand the meaning of it all, but it was doubtless a case of bankruptcy. "'Young mas'r, she said, 'tole' her she had to run away, taking the baby of course. 'Oh, yes," she said very emphatically, 'I never would have left Kentuck without Thomas Jefferson' meaning her little boy.
If old man Gaviller know I come to you it mak' trouble. My fat'er he got trouble enough wit' Gaviller." Tole squatted on the beach. There is an established ritual of politeness in the North, and he was punctilious. "You are well?" he asked gravely. Ambrose set about making his fire. "I am well," he said. "Your partner, he is well?" "Peter Minot is well." "You do good trade at Lake Miwasa?" "Yes.
"That is the name of the book," said Tole. In describing its wonders he lost, for the first time, some of his imperturbable air. "Wa! Wa! All is so cheap inside that book. It is wonderful. Three suits of clothes cost no more as one at the Company store. "Everyt'ing is in that book. A man can get shirts of silk. A man can get a machine to milk a cow. All the people want to send money for t'ings.
At dat de woman streaked right into de house, an' got me some bread an' meat, an' tole me to eat it up an' not talk about payin, 'we don't charge good, faithful niggers nothin', she said, so I thanked her an' eat it all up, an' den, when de man had tole me how to go, I went right long till I got out ob sight ob de little house, an' den I got into de woods, an' turned right round de oder way an' made tracks fast as I could in dat direcshun."
They came in such numbers that Si was startled. He drew his men together, and looked anxiously back to see how near the regiment had come. "I done tole yo'uns not t' be surprised," said the old man reassuringly; "they'uns 's all right every one of 'em a true Union man, ready and willin' t' die for his country. The half o' they'uns hain't got in yit, but they'll all come in."
"I s'pose ye clean furgut t'wuz the on'y clock she hed," suggested Abner with a bland air of accounting for the other's conduct on the most favorable supposition. Edwards, making no reply save to grow rather red, Abner continued: "In course ye furgut it, that's what I tole the fellers, for ye wouldn't go and take the on'y clock a poor man hed wen ye've got a plenty, 'nless ye furgut.
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