"Molasses candy!" he exclaimed joyfully. "I couldn't git on to what
was making me feel so good. Say, Sis, you must 'a' knowed I was a-
comin'."
Myrtella stood in rigid disapproval on the top step and surveyed her
next of kin with such chilling contempt that he decided to change his
tactics.
"Honest, now, Sis, I never come to beg for nothin'. What I really come
for was to tell you 'bout our good luck."
This move was so adroit that it caught Myrtella unawares, and elicited
a faint show of curiosity. "We never knowed it 'til last week,"
Phineas proceeded mysteriously, "an' we ain't mentioned it to nobody
'til we git a parlor fitted up an' a sign painted."
"What for?"
"Fer see-ances! There's been a Dago doctor, calls himself Professor
King, hangin' 'round the Hill, an' the minute he lays eyes on Maria
Flathers he seen she was a mejium. He give her four lessons fer a
dollar, an' she begin to hear raps an' bells ringin' the fifth
settin'. Last night she begin to move the furniture."
"She must 'a' been in a trance!" exclaimed Myrtella. "I been knowin'
Maria about fourteen years an' I never heard of her movin' the
furniture.
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