“’Me tell! Pray,’ says he, ‘where be de other master?’
“He meant he would ask where he was. ‘What other master do you mean?’ says the clerk. ‘What! do you want to speak with the great master? He can’t be spoke with by you. Pray what is your business? Cannot you tell it to me?’
“’No, no; me no speakee the great master—the other master,’ says Mouchat.”
“’What! the colonel?’ says the clerk.
“’Yes, yes; the colonel,’ says he.
“’Why, don’t you know that he is to be hanged to-morrow,’ says the clerk, ‘for making the great master angry?’[[9]]
“’Yes, yes,’ says Mouchat; ‘me know, me know; but me want speak; me tell something.’
“’Well, what would you say?’ says the clerk.
“’Oh! me no let him makee de great master angry.’ With that he kneeled down to the clerk.
“’What ails you?’ says the clerk. ‘I tell you he must be hanged.’