"
"No," Jasper replied, "not with the help of a right peart woman."
"Now, Jasper," she said, "you air shorely enough to provoke a saint,
bein' a man. But, Miz Mayfield, this has all come about so sudden
that--"
Jasper snorted and she scowled at him. "Don't pay no attention to him,
Miz Mayfield. Yes, so sudden that I don't hardly know what to say. But
Lou is a good child an' thar ain't but one pity about her, an' that is
she hain't got much l'arnin', though she did go to school fur two year
over at Dry Fork."
"She will learn, Mrs. Starbuck, and he will be proud of her."
"I'm so glad to hear you say that, Miz Mayfield. An' you ain't
disapp'inted at yo' nephew's choice?"
"It was for him and her to choose, Mrs. Starbuck, and all the rest of
the world should be silent."
"But," Margaret persisted, "his father, the Jedge. What about him?"
"When he knows that all her people have been brave soldiers, he will
call her his daughter."
"So glad," said Margaret, and then Jasper broke in.
"But what's the use of canvassin' now that all the returns air in.
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