Send Mr.
Grant to me at once, and don't you lose sight of that man until you have seen him to the main road.

He says he is a sailor--and I've had enough of sailors, and so has everybody else about here." The negro bowed and backed out of the room.

No answer of any kind was best when the colonel was in one of his "tantrums." "I reckon I hab to ask ye, sah, to quit de place--de colonel don't 'low nobody to--" he said politely.
Harry turned his face aside and started for the fence.

His first thought was to drop his bundle and throw his arms around Alec's neck; then he realized that this would be worse than his declaring himself to his father--he could then be accused of attempting deception by the trick of a disguise.

So he hurried on to where his horse was tied--his back to Alec, the bundle shifted to his left shoulder that he might hide his face the better until he was out of sight of the office, the old man stumbling on, calling after him: "No, dat ain't de way.