Now I've got a prisoner along, up-stairs, myself--never mind who she is or how she comes here.

As you know, I'm a United States marshal for this district, and this prisoner has been turned over to me.

I'm going on up home, beyond St.
Genevieve, and I've got to change down there at Cairo myself, to take the up-river boat." "Mulattress ?" listlessly inquired Wilson, after grinning at the coin.

"They're the wust.

I'd rather handle straight niggers my own self." "Well," said Dunwody, "now that you mention it, I don't know but they would be easier to handle.