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The reptile was of a species with which Brayton was unfamiliar. Its length he could only conjecture; the body at the largest visible part seemed about as thick as his forearm. In what way was it dangerous, if in any way? Was it venomous? Was it a constrictor? His knowledge of nature's danger signals did not enable him to say; he had never deciphered the code.
We've been supplying new, dry handkerchiefs to the poor, late plebes," answered Brayton. "Haven't heard about that fellow Haynes?" asked Greg. "Nothing," admitted Brayton. "Well, you see," exclaimed Pierson, "Haynes made up his mind to disregard the grand cut. He determined to stick it out, anyway, even for a whole year." "He'll have a sweet time of it, then," put in Spurlock dryly.
"Well, I mought, Isom," he said, "ef I didn't happen to have a gun handy." The humor was lost on Isom. His chin was moving up and down, and his face was serious. That was just it. He could forgive Jass Jass was dead; he could forgive Crump, if he caught him in no devilment; old Brayton even after Steve's revenge was done. But now The boy rose, shaking his head.
Should the monster follow, the taste which had plastered the walls with paintings had consistently supplied a rack of murderous Oriental weapons from which he could snatch one to suit the occasion. In the mean time the snake's eyes burned with a more pitiless malevolence than before. Brayton lifted his right foot free of the floor to step backward.
A snake in a bedroom of a modern city dwelling of the better sort is, happily, not so common a phenomenon as to make explanation altogether needless. Harker Brayton, a bachelor of thirty-five, a scholar, idler and something of an athlete, rich, popular and of sound health, had returned to San Francisco from all manner of remote and unfamiliar countries.
Brayton became the first agent of the Continental Insurance Company, in this city, and still retains the office. This has been one of the most successful companies in the country. He is also the agent of the Washington Insurance Company, and the peculiarity of the two companies is, that the assured participate in the profits.
In January, 1869, his son, H. G. Brayton, became interested in his father's business, under the firm name of H. F. Brayton & Son. H. F. Brayton is also a partner in another insurance agency in the city.
Ten yards through the dusk before him was the half-bent figure of a man letting an old army haversack slip from one shoulder; and Isom watched him hide it with a rifle under a bush, and go noiselessly on towards the road. It was Crump, Eli Crump, who had been a spy for the Lewallens in the old feud and who was spying now for old Steve Brayton.
"So do I," muttered Dick. "But what's the with the goat section overtaking us at double time?" Greg sighed, then went back to his books. For fifteen or twenty minutes both young men read on, trying to fasten something of natural philosophy in their minds. Now there came a quick knock, immediately after which the door was flung open and Brayton marched in.
In time they took up the old quarrel, and with Steve Marcum and Steve Brayton as leaders, the old Stetson-Lewallen feud went on, though but one soul was left in the mountains of either name.
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