IN WHICH DAVID SENDS HOKE BELEW ON A COMMISSION, AND CASSANDRA MAKES A CONFESSION

Early one morning Hoke Belew put his head in at the door of Thryng’s cabin, where Aunt Sally was squatted before the fireplace, preparing breakfast for the patient.

“How’s doc?” he asked.

“He’s right fa’r. He mount be worse an’ he mount be bettah.”

“You reckon I mount go in yandah whar he is at?”

“Ye can look an’ see is he awake. I’m gittin’ his hot bread an’ coffee. You bettah bide an’ have a leetle,” she said, with ever ready hospitality.

He crossed the floor