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little. I put down the needle and thread and let on to be interested -- and I was,

too -- and says: ssssssssss

"Three hundred dollars is a power of money. I wish my mother could get

it. Is your husband going ssssssssss

over there to-night?" ssssssssss

"Oh, yes. He went up

town with the man I was ssssssssss

telling you of, to get a boat ssssssssss

and see if they could borrow ssssssssss

another gun. They'll go over ssssssssss

after midnight." ssssssssss

"Couldn't they see better

if they was to wait till day- ssssssssss

time?"

"Yes. And couldn't the

nigger see better, too? After ssssssssss

midnight he'll likely be asleep, ssssssssss

and they can slip around ssssssssss

through the woods and hunt ssssssssss

up his camp fire all the better ssssssssss

for the dark, if he's got one." ssssssssss

"I didn't think of that."

The woman kept looking

at me pretty curious, and I didn't feel a bit comfortable. Pretty soon she says:

"What did you say your name was, honey?"

"M -- Mary Williams."

Somehow it didn't seem to me that I said it was Mary before, so I didn't

look up; seemed to me I said it was Sarah; so I felt sort of cornered, and

was afeared maybe I was looking it, too. I wished the woman would say some-

thing more; the longer she set still, the uneasier I was. But now she says:

"Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?"

"Oh, yes'm, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah's my first name. Some

calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary." ssssssssss

ssssssssss

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