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"Certainly not," ses Alf, winking to 'imself; "not arter wot you said. How could I?" "That's right," ses the old man. "I'm sorry for this marriage for your sake, Alf. O' course, I was going to leave you my little bit of 'ouse property, but I suppose now it'll 'ave to be left to her. Well, well, I s'pose it's best for a young man to make his own way in the world." "I s'pose so," ses Alf. "Mrs.
"Seventeen 'ours we were in the trench, under fire all the time, with water up to our middles and nothing to eat. We were 'olding the center and when the Frenchies fell back they didn't give our chaps no warning, and pretty soon the Dutchmen they 'ad us flanked both sides and we 'ad to quit. But we didn't quit until we'd lost all but one of our officers and a good 'alf of our men."
"You said that you had come a long trail?" he said, regarding the Indian with a sharp scrutiny. "Red Fox come far with feet of deer. He have story for ear of pale-face brothers." The boys started at the remark, while Alf repeated "A story?" "From the white men to their papooses." This was news indeed; but the unexpected announcement disarmed suspicion for the moment.
"O, luddy!" he cried, "wouldn't I have a time to-night if I was in London and had this money in my pocket? Wouldn't I drink 'alf and 'alf till I couldn't speak, and then go to bed with " So elated did Day get with the idea that he clapped his hands together, and sprang into the air, cutting antics of the most singular kind.
"Ah! the treacherous beggar! I'll tell you how that came. Day before yesterday let's see that was Saturday Montgomery and Martin met Alf just at the station, coming along behind some other teams. Montgomery was sorry in his own mind for a blaggarding he gave Alf last winter, for letting his bullocks get into our horse-paddock.
"Now then, it's all right," he said, "give me the coil, Leo, and come back, all of you. Fetch the machine, Alf." In a few minutes the whole party had retired a considerable distance from the huge berg, the Captain uncoiling the wire as he went. "Surely you're not going to try to blow it up piecemeal?" said Leo.
'Even them boys knock me about now, and 'alf a century ago I could 'ave cleared the bloomin' place. There was a merry little waif from the circus who loved to come and sit with Hubert. She had been a rider, she said, but had broken her leg on one occasion, and cut her head all open on another, and had ended by running away with some one who had deserted her.
"'The totem will not let the redmen do wrong," he quoted mentally. "Fools! As if a serpent could tell them to do anything in the first place! How can any reasoning person be so Alf!" Bob had suddenly sprung to his feet as he uttered the exclamation, and Holden started to look at his friend, as if he had suddenly lost his senses. "Why, what's the matter, old man?" he exclaimed.
Etheredge don't like Alf and will spend every cent he's got; and here we are without money. Yes, they'll hang him." "But General Lundsford won't he stand as Alf's friend?" The old man shook his head. "He can't, and I don't know that he would if he could. I mean that he can't and still be true to himself.
I'm tickled to some extent, and then again I hain't, for I hain't as sure of my ground as I'd like to be. Alf, she's by all odds the finest bolt of calico I ever tried to unroll I say unroll, because if she hain't a tight mystery I never saw one." "You mean you can't quite make her out?" suggested Henley, with an eagerness for which he could hardly account.
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