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Miss Margery was at her sternest. "Peggy done it and she's cried herself 'most sick. 'Twas yestiddy. I'd gone to take home some sewin'. Peg she's been possessed to show that doll to the Flannagan children. Bein' as I was gone and Lois 'sleep, she slipped out. And while they were all mirationin' over the doll's shoes and stockin's, that low-down Flannagan dog grabbed the doll and made off with it.
"About one o'clock, you say?" Kite muttered, frowning, twisted his head around and called down a back passage, "Louie Oh, Louie!" and when an overalled porter, rather messy, shuffled to the desk, put the low toned query, "D'you see any stranger guy gripping a sole leather shirt-box snoop by out yestiddy, after one, thereabouts?" And I added the information,
There was his horse Raincrow and his buggy waiting for him when he stepped from the platform; and, as he went forward with his fishing tackle, a livery-stable boy sprang out of the buggy and went to the horse's head. "Bob lef' yo' hoss in town las' night, Mistuh Crittenden," he said. "Miss Rachel said yestiddy she jes knowed you was comin' home this mornin'."
"'Twar the t-a-a-a-rrier!" shouted Ab, "the little rat tarrier ez we war a-talkin' 'bout. He hev been named Steve these six year, old Bob say. He gimme the dog yestiddy, 'kase I 'lowed ez the rats war eatin' us out'n house an' home, an' my mother hed fed up that old cat o' our'n till he won't look at a mice.
I was in his store day before yestiddy an' they wasn't nobody come in for nothin' while I was there. He don't do no business to speak of." "How long was you there, Hi?" "From nine o'clock to noon." "What doin'?" "Nuthin'; jes' settin' round." "I seen him to-day goin' into the bank. Guess he must've gone to see Lockwood 'bout thet note." "Well, I don't envy him his call on Blinky Lockwood none."
"Ez I allow, ye'd better look out for that yaller-skinned little varmint, Cap'n John," quoth the old man, carefully wiping his rifle preparatory to reloading it. "He's rank pizen, he is, and ye'll have to break his neck sooner 'r later. I 'lowed to save ye the trouble, but old Bess got mighty foul yestiddy, with all the shootings and goings on, and I hain't got no lead-brush to clean her out."
"An' if General Lee ever rides along this way I mean to tell him that he ought to have one good battle an' be done with it. Thar's no use piddlin' along like this twil we're all worn out and thar ain't a corn-field pea left in Virginny. It's a good thing I happened to look under the cow trough yestiddy or thar wouldn't have been an egg left in this house.
The old man raised his voice: "No, I tell you. An' that settles it." They returned to the horses, and, before mounting, Isbel, as if he remembered something, directed his somber gaze on young Evarts. "Son, did you bury Bernardino?" "Dad an' me went over yestiddy," replied the lad. "I shore was glad the coyotes hadn't been round." "How aboot the sheep?" "I left them there.
Well, you shall be put ashore as soon as you please. Anything else?" "I see'd a very pretty teapot and sugar basin in your cabin yestiddy. I don't know if you set any particular store by them; but if you don't, my old woman's terrible fond of china, and you can deduct it out of the twenty pounds, it you like."
"And where are Miss Roberta March and Master Junius Keswick?" "Miss Rob went Norf day 'fore yestiddy," was the answer, "an' Mahs' Junius done gone 'long to 'scort her. Who shall I tell Mahs' Robert is come?" "There is no need to tell him who I am," said Mrs Keswick. "Just take me in to him. That's all you have to do."
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