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"Yes." "You mean there is." Again the scarlet splashed into her cheeks. She nodded her head three or four times quickly in assent. "Not Jim Clanton?" he said, alarmed. A faint, tender smile flashed on her lips. "I don't think I'll tell you who he is, Billie." He hesitated. "That's all right, Polly. I don't want to pry into yore secret. But don't do anything foolish.
Billie Warren, dazedly indifferent as to what should happen to the Three Bar since the wreck of the lower field, had roused to action the instant she saw the spurts of chinking fly from the cracks of the bunk house before the fusillade sent after Harris. She threw open the door and stepped out, holding up one hand. "Don't kill him!" she commanded.
"I don't s'pose you know, or care either, that the Lost Souls is producin' thousands of barrels a day since they struck that gusher. You'll never miss the stock now that you gave to Mr. North and them Halsteads to make up for what they lost on their own hook in the fake company, though I did think you were a little fool at the time, Billie.
The eyes of women followed him down the street, for there was some arresting quality in the firm, crisp tread that carried the lithe, smooth-muscled body. With the passage of years he had grown to a full measure of mental manhood. It was inevitable that when Washington County set itself to the task of combing the outlaws from the mesquite it should delegate the job to Billie Prince.
They were given that name because they wagged their little short tails so very fast, sometimes up and down, and again sideways. "Why, how do you do, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Mrs. Wagtail, as she opened the door for the rabbit gentleman. "Come and sit down." "Thank you," he answered. "I called to see Nannie and Billie. But I suppose they are at school." "Yes, they are studying their lessons."
Then the face of the song-and-dance artiste at Jake's flashed across his memory and the next minute he was pounding heavily after the girl. "Hey, Ma'am! Wait a second!" he panted. Willa turned. "Excuse me, Ma'am, but it come to me that you might be little Billie, yourself! Are you? I'd like powerful well to see her again!" "Look at me!" commanded Willa. "Could you swear, Mr.
He only dropped him on the eagle's back, where Sammie was, and pretty soon the two boys were safe on the ground once more, and the eagle had turned into a little green man again. "I'm ever so much obliged to you for saving me, Sammie," spoke Billie. "Oh, I couldn't have done it if it hadn't been for the green fairy," replied Sammie, and of course he couldn't.
"Gentleman Geoff left word it was to go 'to my daughter, known as Billie, and there you are. The money's your'n, and it's up to you to do what you like with it."
And while Laura and Violet and the two boys were talking happily and all at once, Teddy took the opportunity to whisper in Billie's ear: "I suppose, being a young lady with a large fortune," he said teasingly, delighting in the color that rose to her face, "you won't find time to recognize your old friends any more." And with a dimpling smile and mischief in her eyes Billie answered him.
The two young people rose from the chairs at the same time and started across the room to put flip bracelets away. The wire which connected them trailed in between and caught on the doctor's chair. It brought the two of them up short. Van Emmon stared at the wire. He gave it a little tug. The chair did not move. Billie gave an answering jerk, with similar lack of results.
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