CHAPTER XXXIV
CHUNK PLAYS SPOOK
Since Mr. Baron had yielded for the present, Mrs. Whately was glad
nothing need be said to the physician concerning their affairs. His
positive injunction of quiet was sufficient, and now that Mr. Baron
was impressed with its need and had had time for sober second
thought, he concluded that he had trouble enough on hand as it was.
He felt that every quiet day gained was so much toward securing the
absolutely essential crops. Perkins was therefore summoned and the
situation in part explained.
The overseer was in unusual good-humor over the death of Scoville,
and if Chunk had escaped finally, there was compensation in the
thought of having no more disturbance from that source. So,
fortunately for poor Zany, avarice came to the fore and Perkins
agreed that the best thing to do was to bend every energy to "making
the crops," using severity only in the furtherance of this end.
"Beg pardon, Mr. Baron, but I must have sump'n up and down clar.
There's been so many bosses of late en my orders been knocked
eendwise so of'en that I don't know, en the hands don't know whether
I've got any po'r or no.
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