"Tom, you needn't get me the horses. I don't want to go," she said."Why not, Miss Eva?""These things sink into my heart, Tom," said Eva,--"they sink into my heart," she repeated, earnestly. "I don't want to go;" and she turned from Tom, and went into the house.A few days after, another woman came, in old Prue's place, to bring the rusks; Miss Ophelia was in the kitchen."Lor!" said Dinah, "what's got Prue?""Prue isn't coming any more," said the woman, mysteriously."Why not?" said Dinah. "she an't dead, is she?""We doesn't exactly know. She's down cellar," said the woman, glancing at Miss Ophelia.After Miss Ophelia had taken the rusks, Dinah followed the woman to the door."What _has_ got Prue, any how?" she said.The woman seemed desirous, yet reluctant, to speak, and answered, in low, mysterious tone."Well, you mustn't tell nobody, Prue, she got drunk agin,--and they had her down cellar,--and thar they left her all day,--and I hearn 'em saying that the _flies had go
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