"But I hire a new driver and span at each town and send the others back."
"Yass'm," said Euonymus. Robelia came nearer.
"My coach is now at a livery-stable in town, and I want a driver and a lady's maid."
"Yass'm."
"I'd prefer free colored people. They could come with me as far as they pleased, and I shouldn't be responsible for their return."
"Yass'm," said Euonymus, edging away from Robelia's nudge.
"Now, Euonymus, I judge by your being out here in the woods this time of day, idle, that you're both free, you and your sister, h'm?"
"Ro'--Robelia an' me? Eh, ye'--yass'm, as you may say, in a manneh, yass'm."
"She is your sister, is she not?"
"Yass'm," clapped in Robelia, with a happy grin, and Euonymus quietly added: