Et's all in trainin'! On'y a man ez had the Fourth Reader at his fingers' ends could talk like that.

Bein' brought up on Dobell--ez is nowhere--it sorter lets me outer you, ez it did outer HER.
But allowin' it ain't the square thing for YOU to mention her name, that wouldn't be nothin' agin' MY doin' it, and callin' her, well--Lou Price in a keerless sort o' way, eh ?" "I decline to answer further," replied the master quickly, although his color had changed at the name.

"I decline to say another word on the matter until this mystery is cleared up--until I know who dared to break into my desk and steal my property, and the purpose of this unheard-of outrage.

And I demand possession of those letters at once." Uncle Ben without a word put them in the master's hand, to his slight surprise, and it must be added to his faint discomfiture, nor was it decreased when Uncle Ben added, with grave naivete and a patronizing pressure of his hand on his shoulder,--"In course ez you're taken' it on to yourself, and ez Lou Price ain't got no further call on ME, they orter be yours.

Ez to who got 'em outer the desk, I reckon you ain't got no suspicion of any one spyin' round ye--hev ye ?" In an instant the recollection of Seth Davis's face at the window and the corroboration of Rupert's warning flashed across Ford's mind.