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They have resented sheepmen comin' down into the valley. They want it all to themselves. That's the reason. Shore there's another. All the Isbels are crooked. They're cattle an' horse thieves have been for years. Gaston Isbel always was a maverick rustler. He's gettin' old now an' rich, so he wants to cover his tracks.
"That's the very chair he was sittin' in, when Luke Jones come in with the word that men were needed. He started right off with Luke soon as he could get into his oil-skins, for 'twas stormin' to beat the band. But he didn't go fur. Almost no time it seemed like, he was comin' into the house agin, and he went into that bedroom there, and shet the door behind him.
THAT'S what ye'r' comin' to the old washer-woman for is it?" she burst out with the desperation of disgust. "Well give it up! Ask me another!" "But, mother the old records, you know! The family Bible what you once told us me and Jinny!" Something gurgled in her throat like a chuckle.
"Ve'll get rid of him for good, eh?" "Sure," assented Delany. "Come along, you!" Tony Mathusek lifted a white face drawn with agony from his tortured arm. "Say, mister, you got the wrong feller! I didn't break the window. I was just comin' from the house " "Aw, shut up!" sneered Delany. "Tell that to the judge!" "Y' ain't goin' to take me to jail?" wailed Tony. "I wasn't with them boys.
"I'll catch a shark an' get him to learn how," cried Jimmie. "I wonder how I would look in this suit walkin' down the Bowery. Gee! I bet the boys would jump out of their skins if they saw me comin'. They'd think their master had come to claim 'em!" The boys worked industriously for a time, settling themselves in the rather clumsy suits, and then all was ready save putting on the heavy helmets.
Dan'l Pratt smoked for a full minute before he said: "You didn't write nothin' of this, Jake." Jake grinned. "I didn't want to disappoint you, Dan. I knew your heart was set on comin'." "Wal, I didn't 'low fer to hunt up no furss," Dan slowly said; "but the feller that tramps on me is liable to sickness." Jake chuckled. "I know that, Dan; but how about this young feller?" "He's all right.
Of course, I don't say 't I wouldn't like a more relishin' breakfast, because I would; an' I ain't got used to that waiter man comin' right into my room with his trays before I'm out of my bed, an' I never expect to. But 'tis a good hotel, an' the lady that runs it is real nice, if she is French."
Every last miner in camp has jest got to see thet lump of gold." "Maybe I don't want to see it!" exclaimed Kells. "A thirty-pounder! I heard of one once, sixty pounds, but I never saw it. You can't believe till you see." "Jim's comin' up the road now," said one of the men near the door. "Thet crowd hangs on.... But I reckon he's shakin' them." "What'll Cleve do with this nugget?"
I guess Elijah's expectin' to be lonesome though, for he asked me if I'd mind his comin' up an' talkin' over the Personal column with me sometimes. I could see as he was more'n a little worried over how under the sun he was goin' to run the paper without me. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Lathrop, I've been the main stay of that paper right from the first.
If he'd known what I was goin' to do, there would have been a stop put to it, even though it was to save his life I came." "How can you save anybody's life by comin' out in sich a tom-fool way as this? Less than a quart of water, and not so much as a blanket with which to protect yourself." "I can do it by goin' to Antelope Spring an' findin' a doctor," Dick replied.
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