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The raft must have broken up, and neither Ashe nor McNeil could have survived the ultimate disaster. Ross Murdock was alone, marooned in a time which was not his own, with little promise of escape. That one thought blanked out his mind with its own darkness. What was the use of getting up again, of trying to find food for his empty stomach, or warmth and shelter?
I've ridden Morgan stock and Blue Grass thoroughbreds bareback, sir, but I've never thrown my leg over such a blanked Chinese cracker before. After he bolted I held my own fairly, but he buck-jumped before I could lock my spurs under him, and the second jump landed me!" "How far from the Ramierez fonda were you when you were thrown?" "A matter of four or five hundred yards, sir."
What's all the row about?" the cornered man wanted to know. "You know dashed well what it's about, you blanked bushwhacker. But you didn't shoot straight enough, and you didn't fix it so you could make your getaway. I'm going to hang you high as Haman." "Thank you. But your intentions aren't directed to the right man. I'm a stranger in this country. Whyfor should I want to shoot you?"
They would remember that he had always held the theory that, even in quartz mining, the deposits were always found near water, past or present, with signs of fluvial erosion! He didn't call himself one of your blanked scientific miners, but his head was level! It was all very well for them to say "Yes, yes!" NOW, but they didn't use to!
One great charm of the country, which Bruce, himself the son of an Edinburgh minister, and now Secretary of the Noble Seven, described as "letting a fellow do as he blanked pleased," would be gone. None resented more bitterly than he the missionary's intrusion, which he declared to be an attempt "to reimpose upon their freedom the trammels of an antiquated and bigoted conventionality."
"Me boss and the blank of a blank blanked blank that's attimptin' to droive this river has some sort of a row." "Jimmy," said Orde, "didn't you know that I am the gentleman last mentioned?" "What!" "I'm driving this river, and that's my dam-keeper you've got hid away somewhere here, and that's my water you're planning to waste!" "What?" repeated the Rough Red, but in a different tone of voice.
The father said conscience be blanked: and further used almost the same words that were used by Professor Jowett some years later to a certain skeptical youth. Professor Jowett sent for the youth and said, "Young man, I am told that you say you can not find God. Is this true?" "Yes, sir," said the youth. "Well, you will please find Him before eight o'clock tonight or get out of this college."
With an effort, he heaved himself to his feet again and began running, stumbling drunkenly, yet managing somehow to keep on his feet. He had to find shelter, find help. Somewhere in there, his mind blanked out again. He awoke feeling very tired and weak, yet oddly refreshed, as though he had slept for a long time.
"To the Dona Maria Concepcion de Arguello de la Yerba Buena to speak precisely," said the colonel, slowly. "George, you can take that hat to that blank hatter what's his blanked name? I read it only yesterday in a list of the prominent citizens here and tell him, with my compliments, that I want a GENTLEMAN'S mourning band around my hat, and not a child's shoelace.
They chatted for a while, and then Stenson apologized for taking up so much of Mr. Grego's valuable time. What he meant was that his own time, just as valuable to him, was wasting. After the screen blanked, Grego sat looking at it for a moment, wishing he had a hundred men like Henry Stenson in his own organization.
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