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 Presley and help hunt, for sure enough when they went to Cicero's room he wuzn't there, and when they went to Arabeller's room there the nails wuz pulled out and she wuz let loose, and we found out afterwards they had both run away to git married. But Hamen started off horseback, he and the hired man, and they catched them jest before they reached the minister's house down on Stuny Creek.

Well, that broke that up, but Arabeller went about the house real surly, and Cicero, though he didn't say much, had such mysterious looks that I most knew he wuz meditatin' rapine or burglarly or sunthin' or ruther. But, as it come out afterwards, he wuz plannin' to carry Arabeller off into his cave and keep her there till he could bring a clergyman stealthily to the trysting place to unite them. That all happened after I wuz there. But I worried about him considerable nights after I went to bed, and wondered sadly how it would all come out.

But to resoom backwards. The next mornin' after we went there Tamer got a good breakfast. She wuz sufferin' from sinevetus, she said, and wuz dretful afraid of basler menigitus, but they didn't hender her from gittin' a first rate meal—good steak, creamed potatoes, hot rolls, coffee, etc., and she did it almost all herself, for Anna had her work to do, and Arabeller couldn't git a good meal to save her life.