8/32 Jeekie, put that fire out and open all the windows as soon as I go down. This room is like a hot-house." "Yes, Major, the fire shall be extinguished and the sleeping-chamber ventilated. The other boot, if you please, Major." "Jeekie," said Alan, "who is stopping in this place? Three of the gentlemen you have never met before, but," he added suddenly breaking away from his high-flown book-learned English, as was his custom when in earnest, "Jeekie think they just black niggers like the rest, thief people. There ain't a white man in this house, except you and Miss Barbara and me, Major. |