The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

| of his adversary, is not TO be impeach-
ed Eaton has surprised me out OF
bounds! For myself, I'd as soon think
of stepping between a man and his
wife, as a man and his enemy. Sir,
there are relations which are sacred !
Eatons great love for Peg has blurred
him; a husband is ever bad judge OF
either his rights or his wrongs. III
set Eaton TO the properest view IN TINS
when we meet"
The General was scandalized in the
face of Eaton's pose. But | did not
go with his theory of its being love
for Peg. In was offspring rather of a
March hare vanity that resented a
good Office for which it lacked the gem
crosby to be grateful.
1t would seem, however, that the
General read Eaton right lesson, for
he made amends. He came blandly to
! Noah.
Il am told" he said, by one whose
! friendship and whose judgment I never
, doubt, that l have behaved badly to-
wards you. Permit me to offer my
apologies. Also, am to thank you for
your service against that scoundrel.
Noah took Eaton'S explanation in
courtly spirit, and so the wrinkles were
made smooth. l was relieved. though
not pleased; 1 would have found no
fault with Noah had he gone a ruder
course.
where is this Catron?" asked Noah.
"As to that" replied Eaton, Il think
myself qualified to answer. l sent to
learn his condition, and with some pur-
pose, so soon as he was able, of TAX
ing him up where you let go of him.
The word came back that he had quit
the town"
1t was Peg. however, who minded
her debt to Noah. She went to him
with wet eyes, and, without word, took
Ii, 10, lAfl Of how q V1d
kissed it. Noah started back.
That is too much" he cried. 1T
is 1 who will be now in arrears to you
for the balance of my days"
1t stood the day but one following
the affair at Gabsby's. and ] was COM
fortably in my own room engaged about
my letters. If l were to bide with the
General, and not Immediately to see
Nashville, then 1 must name a mana
ger and put my plantations in some
kind of command. There were to be
missives from the General, also, and
we had arranged to send them west
on the next day by hand of special
express. II would take him six weeks,
that horseman and his saddle-bag
with roads as they were, to win to
Tennessee; we were then at some fever,
you will understand, to have our mails
concluded and riding on their way.
AS | drove my quill rapidly across
the pages, Jim was busy in the ad-
joining bedroom, giving polish to my
boots Jim cheered himself over his
labors with snatches of song. AS I
wrote at my desk, / could hear him,
In a most lugubrious refrain:
Thar's a word to be uttered to d'rich
man an his pride:
(Which a man is frequent richest when
it's jest befo' he died.)
Thar's a word to be uttered to d'hawg
a-eatin' truck:
(Which a hawg is frequent fattest
when it's jest befo' he's stuck)
Cease that outlandish bowling" I
commanded furiously.
Shore, Marse Majorl" said Jim,
coming into the room where l sat, and
bringing one of my high horseman
boots on his arm, polishing it the while
with unabated ardor; shore, Marse
Major! An yet, that's a mighty well
liked song up an down d Cumberland.
Hits been made, that song is by Miss
Polly Hines; little Miss Polly who lives
over on d. 'Possom Trot. She makes
in round her paws betterments for
what he owes that Dudleyville Bank,
an sellin' them Oft at public vandoo.
Marse Major, you-all oughter listen
to d'res' of that roundelay; if you'd
only hear Il plumb through, Jim sort
TecKOnS you ike 1t.
1 made no response, but kept on
with my WORK. l was not to be moved
of ballads as Jim rendered them, even
though Vouched to be the offput of that
Sappho of the Poison Trot.
Ten minutes went racing by and Jim
reappeared in the door.
Say. Marse Major, do you-all rec
objects that gentleman who comes pes
term about for them subscriptions, an
1Khn a N1arCn Gayl'ra1 Anna Gk4prc off
d time you an me is goin' down to
dparlor to meet dish we're Missis
Eaton?"
We'll, what about him?"
Hes been round ag'in to-day. It's
this mornin' whites you is sleepin', an
l runs up on him outside in d'han
kind o. ha'ntin' about our door.
say: What you-all want?' He say:
1 want to see d'Marse Major. With
that 1 ups an admonishes him that
you'll is SCUM asleep. AM l says
1T don't do to go keerlessly wakin
d'Marse Major up. He's got a mon
strous high temper, that away, d
Marse Major has, an all you has to
do is rap on that door jes' once, an
he'll nacherally cone boilin outen bed
an be down on you like a fallin
star; that's what ne WILL. Their l tells
him he can't get no subscriptions from
you no how; that you is a heap sight
worse than d MarSe Gen raj bout EN-
You hyar mel! l eXpostulates; 'you-al
is simply barkin at knot; thar amt
no sign of a raccoon up that tree
at all. You-all might jes' as we'll try
to get Sugar-sap outen a swamp-beech
as subscriptions outen d Marse Major!
Shore, that's what Jim tell UNI"
And for that, you miscreant, IL
give him a hundred dollars when he
does come. to show him how little
truth you tell"
Don't go blazin' off into fandad
| Marse Major" said Jim, reprovingly
"throwin' your money away, Dish yere
gentleman spends to Jim. an allows
he amt amin at no subscriptions
But he do say he want to see you; an
so l tell him to be back agin in five
hours. He's liable to come buttin' in
| we're any minutes now, as d time Jilx
sots is done arriv'."
AS ii for Endorsement, a knock was
heard at the door.
There were two to enter, a man and
a woman. The man was huge Of
| frame, shambling, uncouth with knob.
by joints and large uncertain feet; his
| face flabby, sickly. with little greedy
| shifty eyes, like the eyes of swine;
gross mouth, full Tipped and coarse
| and working and munching in a full
fed way, engaging itself upon imagin-
airy mouthfuls. The hands of this in.
diVidual were puffy, warty members
with palms as hot and wet and soft as
an August swamp, and, save for their
temperature, much like the belly of a
toad to the feel. These hands were
commonly in motion, making plausible
and deprecatory gestures. 1t was as
though the world were q cat and they