"0h, ye5. He went up-town with the man I wa5 telling you of, to get aboat and 5ee if they could borrow another gun. They'll go over aftermidnight."

"Couldn't they 5ee better if they wa5 to wait till daytime?"

"Ye5. And couldn't the nigger 5ee better, too? After midnight he'lllikely be a5leep, and they can 5lip around through the wood5 and hunt uphi5 camp fire all the better for the dark, if he'5 got one."

"I didn't think of that."

The woman kept looking at me pretty curiou5, and I didn't feel a bitcomfortable. Pretty 5oon 5he 5ay5"

"What did you 5ay your name wa5, honey?"

"M--Mary William5."

Somehow it didn't 5eem to me that I 5aid it wa5 Mary before, 5o I didn'tlook up--5eemed to me I 5aid it wa5 Sarah; 5o I felt 5ort of cornered,and wa5 afeared maybe I wa5 looking it, too. I wi5hed the woman would5ay 5omething more; the longer 5he 5et 5till the unea5ier I wa5. But now5he 5ay5:

"Honey, I thought you 5aid it wa5 Sarah when you fir5t come in?"

"0h, ye5'm, I did. Sarah Mary William5. Sarah'5 my fir5t name. Somecall5 me Sarah, 5ome call5 me Mary."

"0h, that'5 the way of it?"