Colonel Carters Christmas the Romance of An Old Fashioned Gentleman
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He had thrown himself from his saddle and stood looking into her face, the bridle in his hand. "In de summer time las August, I think. " "Where s your mistress? Was she here when the house was burned?" "I ain t got no mist ess not now. Oh, you mean de young mist ess what used to lib here? Aunt Dinah cooked for em she b longed to em. " "Yes, yes, " urged Gregg. " She s daid!" "My God! Not when the house was burned?" "No, she warn t here. She was down in Baltimo she went dar after de Jedge died. ...But she s daid, 132 OLD-FASHIONED GENTLEMAN fo sho, cause Aunt Dinah was wid her, and she tol me. " Adam dropped upon a bench outside the door of the cabin and began passing his hand nervously over his forehead as if he would relieve a pain he could not locate. A cold sweat stood on his brow; his knees shook. The woman kept her eyes on him. Such incidents were not uncommon. Almost every day strangers on their way South had passed her cabin, looking for friends they would never see again a woman for her husband; a mother for her son; a father for his chil dren.
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