After you have rested and have had time to
think you will see things differently. I warn you however against
Perkins," she added solemnly. "If you identify yourself with him in
any way you may involve yourself and all of us in ruin. Now come, I
will make a bed for you at the end of the hall near my room, and you
had better sleep while you can."
He readily acquiesced, for even his lurid schemes for the future
could keep him awake no longer. In a few moments he was sleeping
soundly on a mattress, wrapped in a blanket. His uniform was hung on
the back of a chair near him to dry.
CHAPTER XXIII
A BOLD SCHEME
Aun' Jinkey gained Miss Lou's room in safety, but panting so from
fright and exhaustion as to be for a few moments utterly incapable
of speech. The girl divined that something serious was to be told.
To her questioning look, the old mammy nodded, glancing meantime at
Zany as much as to say, "We should be alone." This quick-witted
negress, consumed with curiosity about Chunk, and some deeper
interest, resolved not to be sent away.
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