"But Cindy Ann, honey, you do' know nuffin' 'bout bus'ness."
"T'ain't whut I knows, but whut I got a right to know," was her response.
"I do' see huccome you got any right to be a-pryin' into dese hyeah things."
"I's got de same right I had to w'ok an' struggle erlong an' he'p you get whut we's done los'."
Jerry winced and ended by telling her all.
"Dat ain't nuffin' but owdacious robbery," said Cindy Ann. "Dem people sees dat you got a little some'p'n, an' dey ain't gwine stop ontwell dey's bu'nt an' stoled evah blessed cent f'om you. Je'miah, don't you have nuffin' mo' to do wid 'em."
"I got to, Cindy Ann."
"Whut fu' you got to?"
"How I gwine buil' a cabin an' a ba'n an' buy a mule less'n I deal wid 'em?"
"Dah's Mas' Sam Brabant. He'd he'p you out."