Pulling him from the hole, I held my lantern up and looked down into the dark hollow.
I knew that somewhere down below the surface there had to be another hole in the trunk, as water had filled the hollow to the river level.
Rubin, looking over my shoulder, said, “That coon couldn’t be in there. If he was, he’d be drowned.”
I agreed. Rainie spoke up. “You ready to pay off?” he asked.
“I told you them hounds couldn’t tree the ghost coon.” I told him the show wasn’t over.
Little Ann had never bawled treed, and I knew she wouldn’t until she knew exactly where the coon was.
Working the bank up and down, and not finding the trail, she swam across the river and worked the other side.
For a good half-hour she searched that side before she came back across to where Old Dan was.
She sniffed around the hollow log. “We might as well get away from here,” Rainie said.
“They ain’t going to find the ghost coon.” “It sure looks that way,” Rubin said.
I told them I wasn’t giving up until my dogs did. “You just want to be stubborn,” Rubin said.
“I’m ready for my money now.” I asked him to wait a few minutes.
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