But it was along o' that, Sade, that he told me he reckoned you wasn't dead, and told me how to find you.

He was mighty kind and consarned about it, and he even allowed I'd better slip off to you this very night." "Chivers," she repeated, gazing at her husband with bloodless lips.
"Yes, an awful purty-spoken man.

Ye'll have to get to know him Sade.
He's here with some of his folks az hez got inter trouble--I'm forgettin' to tell ye.

You see"-- "Yes, yes, yes!" she interrupted hysterically; "and this is the Mill ?" "Yes, lovey, the Mill--my mill--YOUR mill--the house I built for you, dear.

I'd show it to you now, but you see, Sade, I'm out here standin' guard." "Are YOU one of them ?" she said, clutching his hand desperately.
"No, dear," he said soothingly,--"no; only, you see, I giv' my word to 'em as I giv' my house to-night, and I'm bound to protect them and see 'em through.