"
"Zany, Zany, that's a dreadful way to look at it. You should know
better. This meeting must be prevented. Where is my cousin?"
"He des sound a sleep ez a log," and she made it clear that there
would be no use in trying to remonstrate with him.
"Where's Captain Maynard?"
"Dunno. Sleepin' in he tent too, s'pose. Hit too late now, Miss Lou,
ter do anyting fo' mawnin'."
The girl thought deeply a few moments and then muttered, "Shame on
them both!"
"Dar now, Miss Lou, you doan reckermember dey payin' you a big
compelment."
"I shall tell them to their faces how I regard this outrage rather.
Still, for their sakes, as well as my own, I will keep the affair
quiet if I can. Zany, you must stay with me to-night and at the
earliest dawn we must watch them and be on the ground as soon as
they are."
"Berry well, Miss Lou. I lak not'n bettah."
"Go to sleep, then. I won't sleep to-night."
CHAPTER XXXI
THE DUELLISTS VANQUISHED
Zany's tidings brought the spur of a great necessity to Miss Lou's
jaded spirit, and as her waking thoughts dwelt on the proposed
encounter, a slow, deep anger was kindled in her mind.
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