I tell yew, Perez, my eyes stood out
some. An afore we could say nothing, we wuz so flustered, she up an
says as haow she hearn them ossifers tew her haouse tellin haow they
wuz gonter s'prise ye in the mornin, an so she come ter tell us,
thinkin we mout git word ter ye."
"Did she say that, Reub? Did she say those words? Did she say that
about me? Are you sure?" interrupted Perez, in a hushed tone of
incredulous ecstasy, as he nervously gripped his brother's shoulder.
"Them wuz her words, nigh es I kin reckullec," replied Reub, "an that
'bout yew she said for sartin. She said we wuz ter sen' word ter ye,
so's ye mout git away, an then she guv me the countersign for ter say
tew the sentries, so's I could git by ter fetch ye word."
"To think of her doing all that for me, Reub. I can't believe it. It's
too much. Because you see, Reub, if she'd take all that trouble for
me, it shows--it shows--I think it must be she"--he hesitated, and
finally gulped out--"cares for me, Reub," and his eyes filled with
tears.
"Ye may say so, for sartin, Perez," replied his brother with
sympathetic enthusiasm. "A gal wouldn' dew what she did for no feller,
unless she sat store by him, naow.
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