"
"Perkins asleep, granny. I'se off now fer good, but I comin' back
fer you some day."
He disappeared, and too perturbed to think of sleep the old woman
tottered back to her chimney-corner. A few moments later she
shuddered at the hooting of a screech-owl, even though she surmised
Chunk to be the bird. Not so Zany, who answered the signal promptly.
In a tentative way Chunk sought to find if she was then ready to run
away, but Zany declared she couldn't leave Miss Lou "lookin ez if
she wuz daid." Thinking it might be long indeed before she saw her
suitor again, she vouchsafed him a very affectionate farewell which
Chunk remorselessly prolonged, having learned in his brief
campaigning not to leave any of the goods the gods send to the
uncertainties of the future. When at last he tore himself away, he
muttered, "Speck she need a heap ob scarin' en she git all she
wants. Ef dat ar gyurl doan light out wid me nex' time I ax her, den
I eats a mule." And then Chunk apparently vanished from the scene.
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