Herbert was wholly mystified.
“What paper?”
“The paper the girl got from Old Mammy. Mammy’s holdin’ it up to tease me! Mammy’s crazy; what she says won’t go, but we want the paper.”
“I don’t know anything about a paper.”
“You lie!” cried Sheldon.
A little of the blood returned to Herbert’s heart. He squared his shoulders.
“I do not lie!”
“You’ve got it hidden somewhere to make trouble. Fork it out! We won’t make no trouble for them that makes no trouble for us. She got the road-maker to help her; one of them writ his name on it. Mammy brags about it.”
Herbert was completely bewildered.
“I know nothing about it.”