Soosie

"Soosie," I said, in the calmest tones I could command, "has been murdered.

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When Soosie was fourteen there came to the neighbourhood a hardy young fellow who began to clear a small area of jungle land; for civilisation, which had been marking time for nigh upon two decades, now marched slowly, and to no throb of drum, in our direction.

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He had studied Soosie, and was sure that she was his superior except in matter of colour.

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Though she continued to pit her wits against the secret cunningness of the dreaded old man, Soosie was often preoccupied, seeming to regard herself as one not primarily concerned.

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Plenty row along white man suppose Soosie no come back.

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Soosie thought for a few minutes, and then replied with delicate discretion.

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Dan became uncontrollably excited, storming for the production of Soosie, and being met with inconclusive statements and evasions.

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Soosie never ventured into the jungle unaccompanied, yet she seemed to possess a sense of happenings beyond the almost solid screen of vegetation.

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If Soosie could be ceremoniously married to the faithful Dan, no black in the neighbourhood would endeavour to molest her.

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While the other children of the house stewed over lessons and rebelled against essential tasks, to Soosie everything seemed to make for holiday.

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