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ove 'em plum crazy. It ain't safe for me to stay longer."
"I'm wondering what that widow lady in Shelbourne will say when she hears of this," said Walter musingly. "She will naturally think that you must have given them great encouragement."
"If either of you lads breathe a word of this in town, I'll throttle you," declared the apprehensive old sailor.
"We won't say a word," said Charley, severely, "but I must say you have been setting Walter and I a terrible example, captain."
After this parting shot, the two tormentors retired quickly, for the old sailor was almost at the exploding point with indignation.
The captain was not the only one to whom the afternoon had brought trials. Chris had not been without his share of troubles. The Seminoles treated him with marked disdain and would not even permit him to eat with the others.
"The Indians consider the darky as an inferior being," Charley had confided to Walter in a whisper. "There are rumors that there is more than one negro slave in the heart of the Everglades. The Seminoles have a proverb, 'White man, Indian, dog, nigger,' which expresses their opinion of the colored race."
Chris' troubles reached their climax when the little party was seated around the fire with the Indians in the evening.
The chief, who had been watching the little darky closely all day, turned to Charley: "Me buy 'em," he said, indicating Chris with a wave of his hand. "Me buy nigger."
"I ain't no nigger," shouted Chris in a rage, "I'se a free-born black Englishman, dat's what I is."
Charley silenced the indignant little darky with a wave of his hand.
"He already has a master and is therefore not ours to sell," he said, while Chris bristled with indignation.
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