The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 4 Page 28

thar whar I’m goin’ at the las’.”

“Frale, there is a way — ”

“Yes, they is one way — only one. Ef you’ll give me your promise, Cass, I’ll get away down these mountains, an’ I’ll work; I’ll work hard an’ get you a house like one I seed to the settlement, Cass, I will. Hit’s you, Cass. Ever sence Ferd said that word, I be’n plumb out’n my hade. Las’ night I slep’ in Wild Cat Hole, an’ I war that hungered an’ lone, I tried to pray like your maw done teached me, an’ I couldn’ think of nothin’ to say, on’y just, ‘Oh, Lord, Cass!’ That-a-way — on’y your name, Cass, Cass, all night long.”