Perhaps I shall understand better, if you go on.

What happened after they left ?" "Why, we just went back ter bed, an' 'long 'bout daylight, I reckon, sum fellars cum ashore off a steamboat, an' done broke inter de house; muster bin a dozen, er mor', white men, a cussin' an' swearin', an' sayin' dey wus a huntin' dem thar Beaucaire niggers.

We never done heerd 'em till dey bust in de dore.

One ob dem he knocked me down, an' den Ah saw Massa Shrunk kill one, afore dey got him.

Ah don't know just whut did cum ob de free nigger; Ah reckon maybe he run away.
Dar's a fellar on board yere whut killed Massa Shrunk; an' he's de same one whut made me cum 'long wid him." "You mean the deputy sheriff?
the man with the chin-whiskers ?" "No, sah.