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We kept a close watch on Bevins, for we had ample proof that he needed watching. His wounded foot must have pained him terribly but not a word of complaint escaped him. On arriving at the camp we found Williams bound as we had left him and he seemed sorry that we had captured Bevins.
"But if there's any more trouble the first man to start it, follows Jarrow. You'll have to understand that before you come aboard. We're all armed and you'll have to be searched." "That's fair," said Bevins. "I'll come first. I ain't got no arms." They worked the boat aft to where the pilot-ladder was and Bevins came up.
I instantly covered him with my rifle and ordered him to throw up his hands before he could draw his revolver. Looking through the house, we found saddles, pack-saddles, lariats, blankets, overcoats, and two Henry rifles. We returned with the whole outfit to Denver, where we lodged Williams and Bevins in jail. The next day we tied each man to a mule and started on the return journey.
I think you've grown five years younger." "You've got on, Gerald. You look it." "Yes; I'm general manager now at Finley's." "I'm so glad. Married?" "Not while there's a Hester Bevins on earth." She started at her own name. "How do you know I'm not married?" "I I know " he said, reddening up. "Isn't there some place we can talk, Gerald? I've thirty minutes before my friends call for me."
"Bevins, you gave us a good chase," I said, as we rode up. "Yes," he returned calmly, "and if I'd had fifteen minutes' more start and got across the Platte you'd never have caught me." Bevins's flight was the most remarkable feat of its kind I have ever heard of. A man who could run barefooted in the snow through a prickly-pear patch was surely a "tough one."
"May be everythin' and nothin'. It's that Peth's too thick with the crew, and it's bad when a mate gits to standin' out with the fo'c's'le agin the master." "Do you want me to understand that it's mutiny?" "I said I don't know what it is, Mr. Trask." "How about Bevins? Is he in on it, too?" "All hands. They're off there in the dinghy now, and I don't know what they're up to."
After shutting the door of Jarrow's room the cabin lamp was lighted, as if in defiance of the two ashore and to prove that all was well aboard the schooner. Shope was given coffee and a cigar and put on watch, while all hands joined in a meal in the cabin. Bevins went over the whole story of how Mr.
"Most traveling men are crazy to get into something." "Yes; that's so. We think if we had a shebang of our own we'd just make things fly; but we miss it oftener than we hit it when we do get the factory." "You're right. The man on the road with a good trade and a good salary has a pretty good thing of it." "Well, some men expect to strike it rich by silver stock. Do you know Al Bevins?"
"Yes, I know; you snored into my singin' with enjoyment, all right." "It's the twelve hours on my feet that just seem to make me dead to the world, come evening." "A girl that had the whole town wavin' flags at her when she sung 'The Holy City' at the nineteen hundred street-carnival! Kittie Scogin Bevins, one of the biggest singers in New York to-day, nothing but my chorus!
It was flopping about like a dead fish on a gaff. Before long the foresail began to fret its sheets, and Bevins got her head to seaward. Then there came from astern a hot, puffy breeze, and the schooner stood out on a port tack, curvetting prettily as her sails were trimmed and filled. One of the crew, hailed as Pennock, now came aft and took the wheel, and Bevins went forward.
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