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While the mulatto guide was talking, or answering Jack’s half-amused questions, the cab left Annapolis further and further behind. “Yo’ see, sah,” the guide went on, “Marse Truax wa’n’t in no fit condition, sah, to try de strongest voodoo medicine dat he called fo’. So, w’ile de voodoo was sayin’ his strongest chahms, Marse Truax done fall down, frothin’ at de mouth.
Why, then, may not one embark in the West Indies and disembark at Liverpool? This granted, you will also grant that from Liverpool to Surrey is a feasible journey. Why, then, should you exclaim, 'but Voodoo in the Surrey Hills! You would be surprised to meet an Esquimaux in the Strand, but there is no reason why an Esquimaux should not visit the Strand.
Swaying unsteadily, the mulatto looked around him through eyes closed to snakelike slits. "Raffin," said Ambrose, "you-all has on yo' back de Eye ob Voodoo. Dese gennlemen hyar thinks yo' is a Voodoo. Ah know yo' ain't!" "I am a Voodoo! An' you, you sacré cochon," hissed Raffin, "I'll make you wish you had nevaire been born!"
To the aged negro, who feared neither God nor man, but only voodoo, there was in the voice and gesture that which caused his blood to chill. "Around her form," shrieked St. Clair, "I draw the awful circle of our solemn church! Set but one foot within that holy ground and on thy head " Like a semaphore the left arm dropped, and the right arm, with the forefinger pointed, shot out at President Ham.
These are the basement students of the gargoyle philosophies, the gargoyle sciences, the gargoyle religions. Perpetual motion machine inventors, alchemists with staring, nervous-eyed medieval faces, fourth dimensionists, sun worshippers, cabalistic researchers, voodoo authorities the old-book store is suddenly alive with them.
"Mebbe yo' kin see some voodoo wo 'k, too, ef yo's int'rested," hinted the guide, in a whisper, as he fitted a key to a lock, and swung a door open. In a hallway stood a lighted lantern, which the guide picked up. "Now, go quiet-lak, on tip-toe. Sh!" cautioned the guide, himself moving stealthily into the nearest room.
“I thought Truax had more sense than to go in for such tomfoolery,” Jack Benson retorted, bluntly. The mulatto launched into a prompt, energetic defense of the voodoo doctors. Young Benson had heard a good deal about these clever old colored frauds. In spite of his contempt, the submarine boy found himself interested.
That" indicating the cripple "is her son." "Good God!" Witherbee exclaimed. "Madame Picard! The mamaloi!" "The the what?" But Simpson had heard well enough. "The mamaloi the mamaloi high priestess of voodoo." "Her house is fairly clean," Simpson said. He was hardly aware of his own inconsequence.
Now, Ah ain't sayin' dat he ain't a Voodoo, an' Ah ain't sayin' dat Ah am one. All Ah says is dat Ah's as much of a Voodoo as he is an' Ah'm willin' to prove it!" "How you-all do dat, Ambrose?" asked somebody. "Ah'm comin' to dat," replied Ambrose.
The old bull seals have long, stiff whiskers a foot long. Do you know there's a market for those whiskers? Well, there is. The Chinese mount them in gold and use them for cleaners for their long pipes. Each whisker is worth from six bits to a dollar and a quarter. Why don't you kill a few bull seal for the 'trimmings'?" "Nothin' to do with a voodoo?" grunted Handy Solomon.
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