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'Well, I told him to think it over. You see, he got so badly left last time he tried to compass my downfall, that I shouldn't be a bit surprised if he let the job alone this journey. 'Let's hope so, said the Babe gloomily. 'That's right, Babby, remarked Charteris encouragingly, nodding at the pessimist. 'You buck up and keep looking on the bright side. It'll be all right. You see if it won't.
He snapped his fingers at the articles of the Patriots' Association, and still had his cocked hats and his Brussels lace and his spyglass, and his top boots when he rode abroad, like any other Tory buck. His intimates were all of the King's side, of the worst of the King's side, I should say, for I would not be thought to cast any slur on the great number of conscientious men of that party.
'You got him hidden away somewheres, Sam, said Mr MacGinnis. 'You can't fool me. I'm com' t'roo dis joint wit a fine-tooth comb till I find him. 'By all means, I said. 'Don't let me stop you. 'You? You're coming wit me. 'If you wish it. I shall be delighted. 'An' cut out dat dam' sissy way of talking, you rummy, bellowed Buck, with a sudden lapse into ferocity. 'Spiel like a regular guy!
Saint Dunstan may he be gracious to us! stands quiet in his niche, though I should forget my orisons in killing a fat buck I stay out of my cell sometimes a night, doing I wot not what Saint Dunstan never complains a quiet master he is, and a peaceful, as ever was made of wood.
After a short consultation with Dr. High I reëntered my friend's room, and I fear that my face gave me away, for Sir Tom said: "Be a man, Williams, and tell the whole of it." "My dear old man, this is a tough proposition, but you must buck up and make a game fight. We have sent for Dr. Jones and a nurse, and we will pull you through, sure."
The Correspondent himself, as has been said, was simply sick and gloomy at the last news of the triumph of Buck. He slouched sadly down the steep Aubrey Road, up which he had the night before run in so unusual an excitement, and strolled out into the empty dawn-lit main road, looking vaguely for a cab.
What you see is steam not smoke! Horned toads and hoop-skirts! It's as hot as Buck Tooth's tea kettle! Look out for the boilin' spring!" Bud stood in amazement looking at Kid and listening to what the excited cowboy was saying.
That night, in the bunk house, Bill Jordan was holding forth to a select few Jim Walker, Charlie Bassett, Buck Higgins, and Shorty Palmer; all old friends and true, who could dispute and quarrel with one another without the serious results that would have attended such action on the part of strangers.
Well, I must do a trifle of scouting on my own hook. Buck was climbing, not too fast, for he watched, still hoping that something might happen that he would sight Blaine again. Flying thus easily, climbing still higher, he was all at once startled by a burst of machine gun fire from the ground ahead. There came a reply higher up, and he felt that this must come from Lafe.
"He's in bad shape, though, with the things the bullet carried into him, but we sure swabbed him out. How'd the game go to-night, boys?" "Purty good." Buck shook his head. "Tammer sure had luck his way won a seventy-dollar pot onct." "I sure wanted to play," Grell shook his head, "but in my profession you aren't your own, and you cayn't quit." "We owe you for it," Buck said. "He's our friend "
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