Name: Crab Reef — chapter 1
Author: Theodore Goodridge Roberts

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Crab Reef — chapter 1 (1923)

“ Griffon babbled of other days, of apples and cider and old trees with mistletoe in their branches. He fell frequently and cursed Big Tom every time for picking him up. At last Big Tom let him lie, regarded him helplessly for a few seconds, and then lay down beside him. The knife that had slashed so far into the jungle's tough heart slipped unheeded from the black fingers.
Big Tom was not beaten, however. He got to his feet again hours later, picked up his knife and his unconscious companion, and renewed the unequal conflict. He bucked the jungle desperately, with his friend in his arms. ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Crab Reef — chapter 1 (1923)

“ But the African seemed tireless.
"I must rest again," said Griffon. "Must have lost quarts of blood."
"Nope, we best keep a-goin'," replied Tom, lifting the other easily in both arms and moving steadily onward.
After ten minutes, Griffon spoke again.
"There's no chance for us," he said. "They'll catch us in a day or a week, dead or alive. They'll hunt us with dogs—and every cursed planter in the island will join in the hunt. The masters and the soldiers will hunt us; and our own kind will help track us and drag us down—the white slaves and the black. ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Crab Reef — chapter 1 (1923)

“ Big Tom saw Griffon take to the canes, but he did not enter that airless swelter of vegetation himself. He knew that the white man would hold that line as straight and far into the hills as obstacles and fatigue would permit. ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Crab Reef — chapter 1 (1923)

“ The main force of yams struck Stave and carried him to the floor, and one vegetable flew at a tangent and overturned and extinguished the lantern.
"Run out back," whispered Big Tom. "De constablers am in front."
Old Stave yelled murder, and as Griffon slipped from the sweltering and odoriferous shop to the foul yard in the rear, two constables and a soldier entered by the front door. The constables had cudgels in their hands and cutlasses on their hips, and one carried a lantern. The soldier had his musket.
"Thief! Thief!" cried the ship-chandler. "Griffon, the white man! The back door!" ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Crab Reef — chapter 1 (1923)

“ The town was stifling, but here among the tens of thousands of tall, close ranked canes it was strangling, like the air of an oven. And it was rank with the reek of the black, heavily manured, fortune bearing old soil. The fugitive gasped for breath, stumbled and fell, scrambled up, choking, and ran on, his scanty clothing sodden with sweat and blood. ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Crab Reef — chapter 1 (1923)

“ For God's sake, let me go!" whispered Griffon, without raising his head.
"Let ye go? Man alive, I'se goin' myself! Try a suck at dis yere bottle, boy, an' den git yer legs under yerself an' come along."
"Where to?"
"To the mountuns, Peter. To de blessed jungles."
Griffon gulped at the bottle which Big Tom held to his lips—a bottle stolen from Caleb Stave's best bin. He got his legs under him then and came slowly to his feet with the African's help. They went up the gradual slope together at a fair rate of speed, the black man's strong right arm about the white man's waist. ”

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