You will go back with me and stay with Uncle Lusthah
and Aun' Jinkey and Zany. You will cook for us all just the same and
by and by you will be as free as I am."
"Well, Miss Lou, I comin' back lak de perdigous son, but ole miss
ain' got no fatted calf fer me, ner you neider, I reckon. I des
feered on w'at ole miss say en do."
"Aun' Suke," said the girl, taking the woman's great black hand,
"you stand by me and I'll stand by you. When I get stronger we'll
see what's best to be done. Now I can't think, I don't know. I only
feel that we must help one another till all is clearer."
Mrs. Baron accepted Aun' Suke's presence in the kitchen again in
grim silence. She believed it the earnest of the speedy return of
all the others, and resolved to bide her time when the Southern
armies restored completely the old order of things.
Mrs. Whately drove over during the day and was aghast at what had
occurred.
"I have kept the great majority of my hands by conciliation and
promising them a share in the crops.
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