Not only this plantation is mine, but every nigger on it as well.

You are Rene Beaucaire ?" "Yes," she replied, slowly, almost under her breath, and hesitating ever so slightly, "I am Rene Beaucaire." "And you don't know what that means, I suppose ?" he insisted, savagely, angered by her coolness.

"Perhaps the sheriff did not explain this.
Yet, by God! I believe you do know.

Someone spread the word before we ever got up here--that damn lawyer Haines likely enough.

That is why the others have disappeared; why they have hidden themselves away.