"When she gets well she will think
of him only as she does of the other Union soldiers who so
interested her."
The object of this solicitude was docile and quiet, taking what was
given her, but evidently exhausted beyond the power of thought or
voluntary action.
The night passed apparently without incident, but it was a busy one
for Chunk. He again summoned Jute and his other confederates to a
tryst in the grove to impress them with his plans. It was part of
his scheme to permit a few nights to pass quietly so that
disturbances would not be associated with him, he being supposed far
away. In the depths of the adjacent forest he had found safe shelter
for himself and horse, and here, like a beast in its lair, he slept
by day. The darkness was as light to him about the familiar
plantation, and he prowled around at night unmolested.
During this second meeting he attempted little more than to argue
his dusky associates out of their innate fear of spooks and to urge
upon them patience in submitting to Perkins's rule a little longer.
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