“Y-yessah, I surely does, sah.”
“You’re not mistaken?”
“No, sah; why, I knows the Colonel well!”
“Then why didn’t you tell me this before, you fool nigger? Why didn’t you tell me Colonel Barrett lived there?”
“Yo’ didn’t ask me!”
“Oh, get out of here!” groaned Burton. “Hold on, though. Has the Colonel a daughter?”
“No, sah, he ain’ never got mahied.”
“Then——” cried Burton in sudden hope.