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how-come he been visitin' Marse Tom des befoh de weddin' trouble done settle HIT se'f dat-away." Well, it give me quite a turn to run onto the mention of that there David Armstrong agin in this part of the country. Here he had been jilting Miss Hampton way up in Indiany, and running away with another girl down here in Tennessee. Then it struck me mebby it is jest different parts of the same story I been hearing of, and Martha had got her part a little wrong. "George," I says, "what did you say Miss Lucy Buckner's gran-dad's name was?" "Kunnel Hampton--des de same as <strong>MY</strong> Miss Lucy befo' SHE done ma'hied Marse Willyum." That made me sure of it. It was the same woman. She had run away with David Armstrong from this here same neighbourhood. Then after he got her up North he had left her--or her left him. And then she wasn't Miss Buckner no longer. And she was mad and wouldn't call herself Mrs. Armstrong. So she moved away from where any one was lible to trace her to, and took her mother's maiden name, which was Hampton. "Well," I says, "what ever become of 'em after they run off, George?" But George has told about all he knows. They went North, according to what everybody thinks, he says. Prent McMakin, he follered and hunted. And Col. Tom Buckner, he done the same. Fur about a year Colonel Tom, he was always making trips away from there to the North. But whether he ever got any track of his sister and that David Armstrong nobody knowed. Nobody never asked him. Old Colonel Hampton, he grieved and he grieved, and not long after the runaway he up and died. And Tom Buckner, he finally sold all he owned in that part of the country and moved further south. George said he didn't rightly know
whether it was Alabama or Florida. Or it might of been Georgia. I thinks to myself that mebby Mrs. Davis would like to know where her niece is, and that I better tell her about Miss Hampton being in that there little Indiany town, and where it is. And then I thinks to myself I better not butt in. Fur Miss Hampton has likely got her own reasons fur keeping away from her folks, or else she wouldn't do it. Anyhow, it's none of <strong>MY</strong> affair to bring the subject up to 'em. It looks to me like one of them things George has been gassing about--one of them things that has settled itself, and it ain't fur me to meddle and unsettle it. It set me to thinking about Martha, too. Not that I hadn't thought of her lots of times. I had often thought I would write her. But I kept putting it off, and purty soon I kind of forgot Martha. I had seen a lot of different girls of all kinds since I had seen Martha. Yet, whenever I happened to think of Martha, I had always liked her best. Only moving around the country so much makes it kind of hard to keep thinking steady of the same girl. Besides, I had lost that there half of a ring, too. But knowing what I did now about Miss Hampton being Miss Buckner--or Mrs. Armstrong--and related to these Davises made me want to get away from there. Fur that secret made me feel kind of sneaking, like I wasn't being frank and open with them. Yet if I had of told 'em I would of felt sneakinger yet fur giving Miss Hampton away. I never got into a mix up that-a-way betwixt my conscience and my duty but what it made me feel awful uncomfortable. So I guessed I would light out from there. They wasn't never no kinder, better people than them Davises, either. They was so pleased with my bringing Bud home the night he was shot they would of jest natcherally give me half their farm if I had of ast them fur it. They wanted me to stay there--they didn't say fur how long, and I guess they didn't give a dern. But I
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DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO
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"Daniel, Dunne and Company." Anybod
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fur all that style and fur York Sta
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So I went out and played in the fro
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"Where is he?" says she and Elmira,
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he kill himself?" they all asts to
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He allows she has told some of the
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and it was empty." Then they was a
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"Send fur Brother Cartwright! Send
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was stubborner than any mule he eve
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"I give in, gosh dern ye! I give in
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That had its handy sides to it, too
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always does go off when you is need
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the shop and he takes down a strap
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and he says: "Beneath a shady chest
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"But what have I got?" asts Hank. "
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to eat him up, and while they was e
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Do your eyes blur when you look at
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an 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' artist, Looe
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around the country with shows and e
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"Well," I says, "Hank sent me over
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"Well, all right, Jake," says I, "i
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time." "How you going to work it?"
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ain't natcheral he will pick corn s
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no show fur quite a while, we'd sta
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In her lap was a book she had been
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so bold as to of spoke first to a f
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mostly you married somebody, or was
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quiet kind of drunks on. Which Looe
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kind of aggervating at me and says
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a-way. And she would get her a whit
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to tell now." "It ain't that," she
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when I was a human, I wouldn't of c
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"Well," I says, "I will bring them
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"Well," he says, "they carried on t
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there, and was waiting fur to float
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asts the doctor. "I am going to be
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he will put in a creamatory, where
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what they said was a comic turn. Th
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But aside from them occasional mean
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"Where's the balloon?" asts the doc
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Page 114 and 115: "Why," says the perfessor, "their f
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in Indiany one day, and I had lost
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two as they spoke. It looked to me
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preaching to them. They was all so
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conscience." He meant it, Grimes di
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and rush amongst them guns and end
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jumps up impatient and says: "We've
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as cheap in Watson County as it is
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as a piece of paper, and his nostri
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part of their own selves, and the b
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But things which was my own consarn
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left him, and Colonel Tom thinks he
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with him for that reason. "We decid
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with me, Tom, I looked like thirty
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kind, you know, Tom, and said that
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FORGIVE ME.'" "But couldn't you tel
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"I don't think it's possible, Dave,
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and stay there. And then my conscie
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Lucy's house was. And, if anything,
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"And then HE came to town!--" "Who?
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Fate got away with my half too one
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edroom, and lay down on their stumm
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"He ended with an impassioned appea
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to his feet sudden. I nearly busted
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looked it. "Why did you never tell
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But finally the nurse begins fur to
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Lucy?" "Yes, yes!" she says, excite
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