You air jest achin' fur that opportunity, but
I'll see that you don't git it. Now you set down here an' wait."
"You may riprisent the law," said Jasper to the officers, "but she
stands for suthin' that's higher than all law--woman, an' I reckon
you'll have to knock under."
And they did, waiting patiently for Margaret as she bestirred herself in
the kitchen; and when they went in and viewed the neatness of the meal,
they thanked her and fell to with the appetite of soldiers. They had
eaten and were thanking her when they heard the wagon rumbling down the
hill. Margaret began to whimper, but the old man laughed at her; and
when the two men respectfully turned away to give the prisoner and his
wife a word together, he said to her:
"For a long time, as you know, this thing has been a hangin' over me,
like a cloud ready to shoot out its lightenin', an' I am thankful that
it's about over with. You stay here an' be brave, an' I'll be back all
right. Send word by somebody to Old Miz Barker, an' she'll be tickled to
come an' stay with you an' talk till she makes you feel that they air
goin' to hang me.
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