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A furious hubbub was heard to arise among them, followed by many wrathful voices exclaiming in broken English, with eager haste, "Know him dah! cuss' rascal! Cappin Stackpole! steal Injun hoss!"
"Shore. There's Montoyo. I don't envy you your job, but damn' if you mightn't work harder and do wuss. She's a clipper, and I never did hear anything 'specially bad of her, beyond cappin'. Whoa, Jinny!" I wrathfully cogitated. Now I began to hate her. I was a tool to her hand, once more, was I? And how had it come about? She had not directly besought me to it not by word.
Fust he hoed into massa's house an' shook hands with missis, also wid Missis Waroonga wot happined to be wid her, an' hims so frindly dat he nigh shookt de bonnit off her head. Den dey talk 'bout good many t'ings, an' after a while de cappin turn full on massa, an say, "`I's told Missr Zeppa dat you's got dat willain Rosco de pirit here.
So they led him out to an old location hole somebody else had dug, an' they showed him iron cappin' an' granite contact an' so on just talkin' wild, an' every few minutes comin' in with the 'strong indications of a rich ore body. That was their trump suit, y'see, ma'am. "Frenchy listened, an' his eyes commenced to snap, but he never said nothin' for awhile.
"You come from Captain Pendleton? What message does he send? How is it at the house? Has the coroner come? And oh! has any clue been found to the murderer?" anxiously inquired Mr. Berners. "No, marser, no clue an't been found to no murderer. But the house up there is full of crowners and constables, as if it was the county court house, and Cappin Pendulum managing everything."
"You don't like the schooner?" "No, de cappin ob de skooner. Hims bad man for certin. Please don' let massa go." "You know I never give master his orders," returned madame, with a light laugh. "Better if you did, now an' den," muttered the negro, in a tone, however, which rendered the advice not very distinct.
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