Raymond S. Spears

Name: The Way of the Mississippi — 2. Just Naturally Sentimental
Author: Raymond S. Spears

The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

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“The Way of the Mississippi — 2. Just Naturally Sentimental”, published in 1922, is a work by Raymond S. Spears. It explores elements such as Rillard, Mad Tom and Dona Voane.

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ No two people ever see all the same things tripping down the Mississippi, it is said. Yet there is no doubt that it frequently happens there are many witnesses to a strange phenomenon. These two, Rillard—a sportsman out of the Ohio—and Dona Voane, a river girl, were on a quite common footing for he had said, at least indicated, the coming to his ears of the low, undulating whisperings where keenest of ears must have felt only silence if they were without reverence, or at least belief. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ When, a minute later, some one working in the galley came into the corridor store room and found the door wide open, she closed it and left the two again on the stern deck. The girl, in the meanwhile, had dragged Rillard into the shadow, and was whispering in his ears:
"It's Mad Tom! Oh—he'll kill you now! He's bad—that man!"
"Won't he drown?" Rillard asked, wonderingly and with dread.
"Drown! Drown, that scoundrel! He swam the Mississippi a hundred times! He'll swim a hundred yards underwater. You can't drown him. Oh, you can't kill him!" ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ From within the huge craft there sounded human music that seemed far away, and the deck beneath the feet of the two began to throb and spring to the dancing in the great cabin. A whiff of pungent wood smoke caught their nostrils as a current of air came swirling over the roof and around them. The long, heavy stern line which led out to the bank, against which the bow of the hull pressed, strained as a water wave heaved through the dead eddy and raised them. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ He drew the big-mouthed revolver which Dona had handed him, and with a careless flourish beckoned the two once more to the seats where they belonged.
"Go talk to your own friends, you men," Rillard suggested softly. "Mad Tom has gone swimming, and if he comes back, you tell him for me that after this he'd better mind his own business, and all his pack of river rats. Is that perfectly plain?"
"Gone swimmin'—gone a-swimmin'! Mad Tom's daid?" Jim gasped. "Lawse, strangeh! I—we meant no 'fense, suh!"
"That's all right, boys; we're all friends; there's no need of being mean or having trouble. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ How come hit you drapped into this eddy to-night? How come hit you came down the bar, and saw me? How come hit you laughed a-dancing? They all saw you, strangeh, standing tall an' handsome—proud and high-spirited. Yes, indeed. There's a many prettier than I be, but—but hyar we be an' old Mississip's done been talking to us! The spirits are laughing—times are picking up down the reaches and bends."
Her voice was low, sweet, gentle and full of the same kind of music he recognized in the song of the wild geese—he wondered what unpoetic scoundrel first called their voice "honking"? ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ No one really believed he could get away with any such talk as that, but he had done it, and the two pirates were gulping down their unchewed food, handing it in with both knife and fork, while the women by their side nibbled and flushed with embarrrassment that their companions should find themselves in such a predicament of helplessness. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Way of the Mississippi — 2… (1922)

“ We're trippin' down alone, mamma an' I! Wear hit, strangeh! If he's daid, that Mad Tom, yo'll likely not be mistrusted. But if he ain't—an' there's no real killin' that kind, not by drownin', there ain't!"
"My dear, I—you see, I'm—"
"A softpaw. Suttinly!" She understood. "Yo' don't know. But, strangeh, when you come a-mixin' up into these yeah riveh things—Lawse, Lawse! I knowed those riveh spirits was a-talkin' somethin big! Hit's jes' begun, I know hit is. An' those wild geese coming down the sky wind, talkin' while they come! Hit all means somethin'—yes, indeed! Betteh get up the bank, suh ”

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