He had received his silent tribute and it was enough.

The flavor of it would be with him all the rest of his life.
"What did you fellers think ?" he asked, "when them two big knives came fallin' down on the floor.

I'd hev called to you, but I wuz afeard I'd stir up them two sentinels on the other side of the house." "We knew it was you, Sol," replied Paul, "and we knew then that our escape was certain.

Where did you get the knives ?" "I stole them from a tool house," replied Sol with pride.

"I guess they use 'em to cut cane with, or something like that." "We certainly cut dirt with 'em at a great rate," said Henry, "and here we are free, the five of us together again, but without arms except the two knives you threw to us." The moonlight was deepening and the shiftless one stood in the center of it.