As for Aun' Jinkey, she
stared at her unexpected visitors in speechless perplexity and
terror until the fury of the tempest had passed, their voices could
be heard.
CHAPTER XXXVI
UNCLE LUSTHAH EXHORTS
The heavy thunder shower which came and passed quickly, combined
with a consciousness of their high-handed performances, so awed
Chunk and Zany and oppressed them with misgivings that they were
extremely reticent, even to Aun' Jinkey. Chunk appeared profoundly
ignorant of the ghostly disturbances, trying to say unconcernedly,
"I foun' hit a orful long en skeery trable ter de Un'on lines en I
says ter mysef, 'De Yanks fin' me down yere quicker ner I fin' dem
up Norf. Dey be comin' dis away agin sho'."
"I des tells you we all git whip nigh ter daith ef you ain' mo'
keerful," said Aun' Jinkey, solemnly. "I kyant stan' de goin's on. I
gwine ter pieces ev'y day en nights git'n wusser'n de days. De gust
ober en you bettah light out. Ef Zany missed dey come yere lookin'
fer her."
They needed no urging to depart, for Zany was now as scared as Chunk
had ever wished her to be, but her terrors were taking a form which
inclined her to cling to the old landmarks rather than risk she knew
not what, in running away.
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