Ben touched it reverently.
"Praise God fer de good folks He give us."
"I'se er proud nigger, I is. I'se sorry fur dem dat b'longs to po' folks."
Ben looked at him benignly.
"Don't you be too proud, boy. You'se powerful young and foolish. Yer des barely got sense enough ter git outen a shower er rain. Dat money ain't gwine ter las yer always."
"No, but man, des watch my smoke when I git up North. Yer hear frum me, yer will."
"I hopes I hear de right news."
Sam replaced his coin with a touch of authority in possession.
"Don't yer worry 'bout me no mo'. I'se a free man now an' I gwine ter come into de Kingdom."
The last important task done by the Colonel before taking the train for New York was the delivery to his lawyers of instructions for the removal of the Doyles and the placing in his hands sufficient funds for their journey.