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`` Pardoname , little one ! '' he said . `` But , seein ' you ai n't scared , an ' thar bein ' no blaze in these yere parts , maybe you 'd put us on the trail . Guess I 'd a-gone on siesterin ' till midnight if you had n't a-happened by -- gracias a Dios ! '' Her glance shot suspicion at him as though she scented banter in the strange , foreign phrases ; then she said : `` Ef you mean you wanter git to Potuck , whar the railroad starts , you 've got to walk three miles back to the Potuck Road ; then it 's three miles west to Potuck taown . '' `` An ' what lies on ahead , whar you 're goin ' ? '' he asked .