A Daughter of Maryland — page 106: what you’re looking at

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a - +> J + “i ae A - ° ~, nai + _- A DAUGHTER OF MARYLAND. 87 . CHAPTER Xt. ‘THE GRAYMONT FUGITIVE. THe footstep heard by Aurian and her father had not been made by the expected Robert, but by the housekeeper, who, usually calm and unconcerned about matters, was now greatly excited. ‘‘What is that crazy story S’posen Jones is setting the niggers all wild with? Major Lancier, I wish you would stop him at once. He will drive what little work there is in those creatures from them. And young Berners has been up here telling about how Carroll Southard has’ been caught trying to run off one of Old Evans’ niggers, and they have hung him down at the old Granary! Oh, dear me! what won’t happen next?’’ Under ordinary circumstances Mrs. Ralston would sooner have bitten her tongue off than to mention the name of Southard before her master, and now that she had actually done it, she gazed about the room as if looking for an avenue of escape in case the worst should happen. “You don’t mean that Carroll Southard has been cap- tured, Mrs. MRalston?’’ Aurian cried, vexed the next moment for the words and the tone in which she had spoken them. ; : : ‘“That’s what I understood Mr. Berners to say, though I was so flustered that I may not have heard him correctly.’’ ‘‘Zounds !’? exclaimed the major, suddenly waking up to the situation. ‘‘What is all this babbling about? Has that young Southard got back into these parts again? I had hoped we had seen the last of him. ”’ (ee) ~comicboo Ss : > pee. 3 . \ x . J. wv saty ; as J ae oi " .