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"I cyard for him, and he thanked me kindly; he said a woman had shot him when he was trying to be friendly; a pretty woman, young and alone. Co'rse, I washed his wound and I linimented it, and I cut the bullet out of his back; law me, but that man swore! Come night, an' he heard say I was a parson, he apologized because he cursed, and this mo'nin' he'd done lit out, yas, suh! Neveh no good-bye.
"Yas, mar'm" chuckled the old man. "I had to be. I never would a-got him! Oh, I's tellin' de trufe, Miss Hallie. Dis' here ol' sinner tooken flewed off a boat what was comin' up de river. Yas'm. And he sure was old enough to know better." "And you saw him fly off the boat?" "Oh, yas'm. I seed him. I seed him," and Uncle Billy floundered for a moment, caught in his own trap.
You might tell Haines this is a private matter you understand?" "Yas, sah," the whites of his eyes rolling. "He done know ol' Pete, an' I'll sure bring him back yere." It was dark when they came, the fire alone lighting up the interior of the dingy cabin with a fitful glow of red flame.
"Yas, suh," put in his partner; "dey meks a mighty fuss over cullud folks over yere; but 'tain't noways lak home. I comes from Bummin'ham, Alabama, myse'f. Does you gen'lemen know anybody in Bummin'ham?" They were the first really wholesome creatures who had crossed our paths that night.
Clarence bit the end of his waxed mustache, and mused over his sire's startling announcement. "You recollect that I never saw her." "D'ye carry poppin'-jays, pilgrims?" demanded Jehu, turning so suddenly upon the two passengers as to frighten them out of their wits. "Popping-jays?" echoed Filmore, senior. "Yas shutin'-irons rewolvers patent perforatin' masheens."
The negro again disappeared, and in a few moments came back with a soldier, to whom the colonel said: "Damon, here's a mail that must go across the river to-night. Can you pull an oar?" "Yas," replied the man. "Then get some one to go with you, and start at once. The skiff, you know, is in the creek, just above where that Yankee gun-boat lies."
But likely he won't have the courage. Yas; take it all together, I'm glad them two child'en has took the notion. It'll be a good thing for him whilst he's throwed in with all sorts o' travelin' folks goin' an' comin' to reelize thet he's got a little sweetheart at home, an' thet she's bein' loved an' cherished by his father an' mother du'in' his absence.
He took advantage of her weakness, but only in the service of a higher cause than love of woman, in answer to a greater demand than even she could make. She offered no resistance either. What was the use? "Boys!" he called out sharply. "Are you there?" "Yas, suh," answered Cato. "I have your mistress in my arms, my pistol is at her head.
What he saw brought him upright like a pistol shot, his face suddenly scarlet, his mustache whipping up and down, and that eye of his glowering at the longshoreman ferociously. "Cæsar Augustus, Philobustus, Hennery Clay!" he burst out. "Bla-a-ack a-a-and blu-u-ue!" "And, oh, listen what else he did!" Cis went on. "The uniform you gave to Johnnie " "Yas?" "He put it in the stove!" One-Eye stared.
"Yas!" he reiterated, drawling it out. "Yu was in front of them, an' with what? Why, an' old, white-haired, interfering Winchester, that's what! Me an' my Sharp's " "Yu and yore Sharp's!" exploded Red, whose dislike for that rifle was very pronounced. "Yu and yore Sharp's." "Me an' my Sharp's, as I was palaverin' before bein' interrupted," continued Hopalong, "did more damage in five min "
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