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Levine, to attempt to legalize an illegality by false swearing. Jackson, call Crippled Bear." Charlie, who had been sitting with arms folded, his somber eyes on Lydia, spoke quickly to one of the bucks, who rose and took the empty chair by Charlie. He began to talk at once, Charlie interpreting slowly and carefully. "I am a mixed blood. I speak English pretty well when I am with only one white.
Well, me an' Bart's been chewing over your proposition to buy out our interest in them two Chinks, an' as the upshot of our talk we made up our minds to sell, but not for no measly little five bucks' profit. Now, Scraggsy, you old he-devil, on your honour as between shipmates, you got to admit five dollars ain't hardly worth considerin'. Come down to earth now.
There were not a few aged bucks, painted and powdered and patched, aping the airs and graces of younger gallants, who could remember Charles II. and Moll Davies. They were startled when they heard Lavinia's liquid notes in the old ballad they felt that for a brief space they were recovering their youth. As for the rest, they were conscious of a pleasant surprise.
In the winter of eighteen hundred and no matter what, I got three months' leave of absence, with the intention of devoting a great portion of it to a long-planned expedition, an invasion of the wild mountain-region lying north of Quebec, towards the head-waters of the Saguenay, a district seldom disturbed by the presence of civilized man, but abandoned to the semi-barbarous hunter and trapper, and frequented much by that prince of roving bucks, the shy but stately caribou.
"Then I am going, too," exclaimed Dicksie solemnly. "Do you mean it?" asked her husband. "Shall we let her, Marion? Mr. Bucks says I am to take his car and take Barnhardt, and keep the car there till I can bring Gordon back. Mr. Bucks and his secretary will ride to-night as far as Bear Dance with us, and in the morning they join Mr. Glover there." McCloud looked at his watch.
Bucks?" "Hardly. No orders would take us over that bridge to-night without Glover's permission." "What an autocrat!" sighed Mrs. Whitney. "No matter; I don't care to go over it, anyway." "But I do," protested Gertrude. "I don't feel like staying in this water all night, if you please." "I'm afraid that's what we'll have to do for a few hours. I told Mr.
Whitney, thank you." "Oh, see those pretty red lights over there now. What are they?" asked Louise, who stood with Allen Harrison. "The signals," exclaimed Bucks. "Three fusees. Good for Glover; that means success. Shall we go?"
It gen'rally means that there's somethin' doin' in ponies or margins, and that next payday is goin' to seem a long ways off. If I'd been asked to give a guess, I should have put it as about two hundred bucks that Piddie had thrown into the market. Anyway, it wa'n't enough to knock the props out of call-money quotations; so I was lettin' Piddie do all the worryin'.
They left off feeding, and commenced approaching it halting at short intervals, and then continuing to advance. They did not move in single file as the former herd had done but first one, and then another of the bucks took the lead, each wishing to make a display of his courage.
Though, by golly, I will have a few days alone with Paul in Maine! . . . That devil Zilla! . . . But . . . Ted's all right. Whole family all right. And good business. Not many fellows make four hundred and fifty bucks, practically half of a thousand dollars easy as I did to-day! Maybe when we all get to rowing it's just as much my fault as it is theirs. Oughtn't to get grouchy like I do.
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