"Never more welcome,
since you come as defender as well as guest."
"Yes, aunt; think of a red-whiskered Yank paying his respects
instead of me."
"Don't suggest such horrors, please."
The gentlemen now joined Miss Lou in the parlor, while under Mrs.
Baron's supervision Zany, and Chunk, as gardener and man-of-all-
work, with the aid of others soon set the two tables. Then began a
procession of negroes of all sizes bearing viands from the kitchen.
CHAPTER IV
AUN' JINKEY'S POLICY
Allan Scoville, for such was the Union soldier's name, fully
realized that he was in the enemy's country as he watched through a
cranny in the cabin the shadowy forms of the Confederates file past.
Every bone in his body ached as if it had been broken, and more than
once he moved his arms and legs to assure himself that they were
whole. "Breath was just knocked right out of me," he muttered. "I
hope that's the worst, for this place may soon become too hot for
me. My good horse is not only lost, but I may be lost also through
him.
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