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He'd been celebratin' some and lookin' upon the likker when it was red, and he was so far gone that I guess he'd have slept somewhere on the road if his broncho hadn't had more sense than him and brought him home. He was too soused to know his name, and he didn't need no urgin' to tumble into his bunk and sleep it off.
"You'll have a spray of lead flying this way in a second!" he said. "Can't you give the Wolf call without alarming the people of Hong Kong, six hundred miles away?" "I'm celebratin'!" answered the boy. Again the wolf cry echoed through the forest, and this time it was answered from within a few feet of where the boys stood.
"Seven besides Craddock, the rest of them went to Kansas City with the cattle you saw leave in them three extras this evening. Craddock's celebratin' his new job, he's leadin' 'em around throwin' everything wide open to 'em without a cent to pay. 'Charge it to me' he said to Peden I was there when they came in 'charge it to me, I'm payin' this bill. You know what that means."
Say, you have been my fairy godmother, all right. Talk about wishes comin' true!" Again he looked about the room, and that wistfulness of the visionary stole into his face. His eyes came back to her with an expression that was almost beautiful. "If only that Englishman was here," he sighed. "Yes ma'am. I'm sure celebratin' to-night!" It was soon very apparent that he was celebrating.
"Does he wear the uniform reg'lar," says I, "or is he celebratin' some anniversary?" And Piddie almost allows himself to grin as he explains how that's the same costume Dudley has come down to work in every day for the last fifteen years. "Well, it's a flossy outfit, all right," says I. "What is he, one of the directors?" No, he wa'n't.
The mason did not reply, but there was a reckless gleam in his blue eyes. He worked vigorously, then volunteered evasively, "I was just celebratin' around." "Celebrating what?" "Things in general what you was tellin' me about our bein' cousins," he said, with a touch of his usual humor. "Oh!" Adelle replied, discomposed. He had been thinking about it, then.
"Thought it deserved some celebratin'," Clark added. Adelle's heart beat a little faster. If he only knew the whole truth! then there would be something to celebrate, indeed! "The strike's off," the mason remarked soon, as if he were anxious to get away from his own misdeeds. "Is it?" "Yep!
"Say, Sheila," he murmured, "I'm celebratin' to-night." She tried to dismiss from her mind its new and ugly consciousness. She tried to smile. The result was an expression strange enough. Sylvester, however, missed it. He was dressed in one of the brown checked suits, a new one, freshly creased; there was a red wild-rose bud in his buttonhole. The emerald gleamed on his well-kept, sallow hand.
Wal, I'm gamblin' thet as soon as it's dark Jorth's gang will be celebratin'. They'll be drinkin' an' they'll have a light, an' the winders will be shut. They're not goin' to worry none aboot us. Thet store is like a fort. It won't burn. An' shore they'd never think of us chargin' them in there.
"Sam Slawson an' me'll be fifteen years married come Fourth of July," she announced. "We chose that day, because we was so poor we knew we couldn't do nothin' great in the line o' celebration ourselves, so we just kinder managed it, so's without inconveniencin' the nation any or addin' undooly to its expenses, it would do our celebratin' for us.
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