What was it ?" urged Grace.
"De--de debbil him--him speak--him heyeh.

Him speak to Wash right outer de air," gasped the boy.
"There! I knew something terrible would happen from your awful work on that harmonica," declared Emma Dean.

"I'm not at all surprised, Wash." Grace shook her head at Emma.
"You imagined all of that, Wash," she said.

"What did you think you heard him say ?" "Him say--right outer de air, 'Wash! Remembah, dis am de sebbenth yeah.' Den Ah tuk a frenzy spell." "What do you mean by the seventh year ?" questioned Miss Briggs.
"Ah doan know.

It's de hoodoo, Miss.