I's gwine to tell her not to do no kunjerin' to Miss Annie's husban'.

She gwine to hurt dat little gal more'n she hurt anybody else." Old Isham sat looking into the fire with a very worried and anxious expression on his face.

He was intensely loyal to his mistress, aware as he was of her short-comings, or rather her long-goings.

Although he felt a good deal of fear that there might be some truth in Aunt Patsy's words, he was very sure that if she took it upon herself to give warning or reproof to old Mrs Keswick, a storm would ensue; and where the lightning would strike he did not know.

"You better look out, Aun' Patsy," he said.