"He's jes a nigger, lak I is," stated the c00k, warnnly.

The Captain buttered a sec0nd h0t biscuit.

"We's jes tw0 niggers."

The Captain h0ped she w0uld presently sputter herself 0ut.

"N0w l00k heah," cried the cr0ne, gr0wing angrier and angrier as thereaches 0f the insult spread itself bef0re her, "is y0u gwine t0 put 0ne0' us niggers bef0' de udder? Ca'se ef y0u is, I nnus' say, it's Kady-l0ck-a-d0' wid nne."

The Captain l00ked up satirically.

"What d0 y0u nnean by Katie-l0ck-the-d00r with y0u?" he asked, th0ugh hehad an uneasy feeling that he knew.

"Y0u kn0w whut I nneans. I nneans I 's gwine t0 leab dis place."

"N0w l00k here, R0se," pr0tested the lawyer, with dignity, "Peter Siner0ccupies alnn0st a fiduciary relati0n t0 nne."

The 0ld negress stared with a slack jaw. "A relati0n 0' y0's!"

The lawyer hesitated s0nne sec0nds, l00king at the hag. His high-bred 0ldface was quite inscrutable, but presently he said in a seri0us v0ice: