"Go send Annette up to ask Miss Bonnie if she's ready for breakfast."
"Yes, sir; very well, sir. Hit's all growing quite cold, sir," says William; and he went away.
He come back in a few minutes and stood in the door and said his Ahum! like he always did, and the old man turned to him.
"Beg pardon, sir, but Miss Wright's mide says Miss Wright 'as not come in."
"Not come in! What do you mean?"
"She's not in her room, sir. The mide thinks she's not been in her room during the night."
"What's that? What's that?" says he. "Curly, didn't you just now say she was here? Wasn't you up after I was?"
"I seen her around midnight," says I—"maybe later; I don't know. I thought she went to bed. I never did hear her go out. She couldn't of gone out—I'd of heard her."
"You'd of heard her! With you in bed yourself? What do you mean?"
The old man turned to me now and seen my face. He come close up to me.