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"But yuh been to see her? What she say about it?" "Huh! She was askin' me if I knowed where it was. But that was just a blind to put me off'n the track an' she probably wanted to make sure no one else had found it. She was quizzin' that Pettis girl, too, makin' sure Ike hadn't told her nothin'." "Yuh may be right," admitted Snake again. "God-dlemighty! Yuh reckon she'll find it?"
"Thank you jest as much for askin' me, dearies, and maybe some other time I'll get my courage up to it. But now you jest run along an' enjoy yourselves. "An' when you come back," she added, taking both of the soft young hands in her wrinkled one and patting them gently, "you can come up an' tell me all about it."
But when she mentioned the boy, I demurred in my own mind, and kep' a demurrin'. Thinks'es I, how can I stand it, as tired as I expect to be, to have him a askin' questions all the hull time? She see I was a demurrin'; and her pretty face grew sadder than it had, and overcasteder. And as I see that, I gin in at once, and says with a cheerful face, but a forebodin' mind,
By the time church was over, says she, 'I'd kind o' cooled off, but when I heard Sam askin' Brother Hendricks to go home and take dinner with him, that made me mad again; for I knew that meant a big dinner for me to cook, and I made up my mind then and there that I wouldn't cook a blessed thing, company or no company.
In five minutes quite a large crowd was swirling and surging about the machine and its anxious occupants. "Whar's the United States Assayer's office?" demanded Wandering William, above the hubbub and excitement. "Why it's two blocks to the right an' down that alley," volunteered Cash; "you're the second party as has bin askin' fer it ter day."
"Not but what my man's good enough, but he don't seem to get along, somehow. The farm's wore out, and the mortgage comes around so regular." "Where do you live?" asked Victoria, suddenly growing serious. "Fitch's place. 'Tain't very far from the Four Corners, on the Avalon road." "And you are Mrs. Fitch?" "Callate to be," said the mother. "If it ain't askin' too much, I'd like to know your name."
She's a putty decent sort of a woman too," Mr. Harum admitted. "If the' was a death in the house she'd go in an' help, but she wouldn't never think of askin' one on 'em to tea." "I suppose you have heard it said," remarked John, laughing, "that it takes all sorts of people to make a world."
"I reckon ye wouldn't mind," broke in Nott, suddenly, "ef I asked a favor of ye, Mr. Renshaw. Mebbee ye'll allow it's askin' too much in the matter of expense; mebbee ye'll allow it's askin' too much in the matter o' time. But I kalkilate to pay all the expense, and if you'd let me know what yer vally yer time at, I reckon I could stand that. What I'd be askin' is this.
"Barry," he said, "I'm askin' you for the last time: Will you get your hoss and ride back to Kate Cumberland with me?" Dan Barry smiled his gentle, apologetic smile. "I don't no ways see how I can, Buck." "Then," said Buck through his teeth, "of all the lyin' hounds in the world you're the lyin'est and meanest and lowest. Which they ain't words to tell you what I think of you. Take this instead!"
"Myry air pert," she said, halting in the door. "She air more than that her fingers air lovin' ones. These," and she held up her two brown hands, "would be hurtin' ye, cause I hates ye so." Tessibel and Myra walked away from Ben's hut in silence, up the ragged rocks to the Longman shanty. "Ben were askin' to marry yer, Tess, weren't he?" demanded Myra as they approached the door. Tess nodded.
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