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You can trust a nigger 'cause they never no 'count, but you don't know what you gettin' when you trust an Indian. But, Cla'nden, that Apache Indian, Santan, ain't goin' to trouble you no more. When the world ain't no fit place for folks they needs helpin' out of it, and I sees to it they gets it, too. Whoo-ee!" She paused and leaned against the crooked cypress.
Aunty Boone patted it gently, the first and last caress she ever gave to any of us. "You' goin' to get a letter from a dark man. You' goin' to take a long journey. And somebody goin' with you. An' the one tellin' this is goin' away, jus' one more voyage to desset sands again, and see Africy and her own kingdom. Whoo-ee!"
Johnny laughed aloud, Cliff's tone releasing within him a sudden, reckless mood that gloried in the sport of the chase and forgot for a moment its grim meaning. "Whoo-ee! Go to it, old girl! They gotta go some to put salt on your tail whoo-ee!" "Are you crazy, man? Those are government planes! They're probably armed. They'll get us wherever we cross the line turn back, I tell you!
"All right, we'll wait for you. Only don't be all day," said Gumble-umble. "We want to go in the water before night." "Oh, you mustn't mind him," laughed Whoo-ee. "I don't know what's the matter with him to-day; he's always finding fault. Did you get a thorn in your foot, Gumble, that makes you so cross?" "No, I didn't," answered the other boy elephant.
"Good!" trumpeted the tame elephant, whose name was Dunda. "My brother from the jungle is wise." So Tum Tum had no more chains put on his legs or back, and those that were on him, with the ropes, were taken off. "So we are not to try to break from the trap?" asked Whoo-ee. "No, for we will be well treated here," said Tum Tum, "and some of us may go to a circus." "What is a circus?" asked Zunga.
"You must cross the river letting the ponies pick their own ford," Jondo commanded us. "Then go through to the ridge on the northwest side of town. Keep out of the light, and if anybody tries to stop you, ride like fury for the ridge." "Lemme go first," Aunty Boone interposed. "Nobody lookin' for me this side of purgatory. 'Fore they gets over their surprise I'll be gone. Whoo-ee!"
Parker!" gasped the foreman, apprehensively. "The wind behind 'em an' rum inside 'em." "Ward's men, eh?" suggested the engineer. "That they are! The Gideonites! They can't be anything else." "Get our men together!" Parker cried, clapping his gloved hands. "Rout out every man in the settlement." The foreman started away on the run, banging on house doors and bawling the cry: "Whoo-ee! All up!
And just then he saw Patty crossing a bit of lawn near them. "Whoo-ee!" he called, and as Patty turned, he beckoned for her to come to them. "What's wanted?" called Patty, gaily, as she neared the arbour. "You," said Bill, while Daisy sank down on the arbour seat, and seemed to crumple up in abject fear of what was about to happen.
You don't know what desset is. You never see sand. You never feel what it is to want watah. Only folks 'cross the ocean in the real desset knows that. Whoo-ee!"
You children had better go to your fathers and mothers," she said to Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and Zunga. "They are, very likely, looking for you." So the four friends of Tum Tum started off, and soon the whole herd of elephants was moving off through the jungle, led by Mr. Boom, who had heard of the danger from a monkey friend.
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