For this reason he became genuinely interested in Clem's case as it was later reported to him by Young Doc.
To the rest of Little Arcady the case was also of interest.

Sympathy had heretofore been with Clem, because Miss Caroline paid him no wages, and was believed to take what he earned from other people.
Now, however, an important number of persons veered--in wonder if not in absolute sympathy.

That the woman should watch and nurse the black fellow, apparently with perfect single-heartedness, was not to be squared with any known laws of human association.

"Nursing a nigger in her own house with her own hands," was the fashion of describing this untoward spectacle.

It was like taking a sick horse into your house, and making play that it was human.