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Miss Lou by Edward Payson Roe
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work, with the aid of others soon set the two tables. Then began a
procession of negroes of all sizes bearing viands from the kitchen.




CHAPTER IV

AUN' JINKEY'S POLICY


Allan Scoville, for such was the Union soldier's name, fully
realized that he was in the enemy's country as he watched through a
cranny in the cabin the shadowy forms of the Confederates file past.
Every bone in his body ached as if it had been broken, and more than
once he moved his arms and legs to assure himself that they were
whole. "Breath was just knocked right out of me," he muttered. "I
hope that's the worst, for this place may soon become too hot for
me. My good horse is not only lost, but I may be lost also through
him. That queer-looking darky, Chunk, is my best hope now unless it
is Miss Lou. Droll, wasn't it, that I should take her for an angel?
What queer thoughts a fellow has when within half an inch of the
seamy side of life! Hanged if I deserve such an awakening as I
thought was blessing my eyes on the other side. From the way I ache,
the other side mayn't be far off yet. Like enough hours will pass
before Chunk comes back, and I must try to propitiate his grandam."

He crawled painfully to the trap-door and, finding a chink in the
boards, looked down into the apartment below. Aun' Jinkey was
smoking as composedly it might seem as if a terrible Yankee, never
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