You ought to have heard him run on about this one, and that one, and that other one, not an hour ago in our parlor.

I had to pack him off, saying he was even making Judy's niggers tired." She stopped and added with polite languor, "I suppose there's no news up at yo' house either?
Everything's going on as usual--and--you get yo' California draft regularly ?" A good deal of the white of Julia's beautiful eyes showed as she turned indignantly on the speaker.

"I wish, cousin Sally, you'd just let up talking to me about that money.

You know as well as I do that I allowed to maw I wouldn't take a cent of it from the first! I might have had all the gowns and bonnets"-- with a look at Miss Sally's bows--"I wanted from her; she even offered to take me to St.Louis for a rig-out--if I'd been willing to take blood money.

But I'd rather stick to this old sleazy mou'nin' for Tom"-- she gave a dramatic pluck at her faded black skirt--"than flaunt round in white muslins and China silks at ten dollars a yard, paid for by his murderer." "You know black's yo' color always,--taking in your height and complexion, Jule," said Miss Sally demurely, yet not without a feminine consciousness that it really did set off her cousin's graceful figure to perfection.