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Del Bishop, who had refused to play any hand but his own, had gone to work for Corliss because by so doing he was enabled to play his own hand better. He was practically unfettered, while the opportunities to further himself were greatly increased. Equipped with the best of outfits and a magnificent dog-team, his task was mainly to run the various creeks and keep his eyes and ears open.
The unfortunate man hung his head. "I don't see what all that has to do with it " She seemed to leap at him. "You don't? You don't?" "No, I don't. And I don't see why you're so crazy to please young Corliss about this business unless you're infatuated with him. I had an idea and I was pleased with it, too, because Richard's a steady fellow that you were just about engaged to Richard Lindley, and "
And when he reached the age of choice he had been too fully occupied to deviate from the straight path, along which his mother had taught him to creep and toddle, and along which he now proceeded to walk upright, without thought of what lay on either side. Vitality cannot be used over again. If it be expended on one thing, there is none left for the other thing. And so with Vance Corliss.
I can only eat so much, smoke so much, sleep so much, and this tail-dump of earth men call Alaska is the worst of all possible places in the matter of grub, tobacco, and blankets." "But it is the living strenuously which holds you," Corliss interjected. "Frona's philosophy," the colonel sneered. "And my philosophy, and yours." "And of the agglutinated dust "
. . . . When Corliss arrived, at about eleven o'clock that morning, Sarah brought him to the library, where he found Cora waiting for him. He had the air of a man determined to be cheerful under adverse conditions: he came in briskly, and Cora closed the door behind him. "Keep away from me," she said, pushing him back sharply, the next instant. "I've had enough of that for a while I believe."
Shoop roped the horse and handed the rope to Sundown, who marched to the water-trough. The pony sniffed at the water and threw up his head. "I reckoned that was it!" said Shoop. "What?" queried Corliss, meanwhile watching Sundown's face. "Oh, some dam' coyote's been paddlin' in that trough again. No wonder the hosses won't drink this mornin'. I don't blame 'em."
After eight months, in which my health was wholly restored, I heard the good news that Captain Corliss had applied for his first lieutenant, and I decided to join him at once at Camp MacDowell.
"Nothing 'ceptin' I'm game to stand by a pal any time." "You mean ?" "Jest a josh, Billy. I was only thinkin' what could be pulled off by a couple of wise ones. So-long!" And the cowboy departed wondering just how far his covert suggestion had carried with Will Corliss. As for Will Corliss, Fadeaway cared nothing whatever.
It so happened that John Corliss had taken a liking to the Hobo, Sundown Slim. Knowing a great deal more about cattle than about psychology, the rancher wasted no time in trying to analyze his feelings. If the tramp had courage enough to walk another thirty miles across the mesas to get a job cooking, there must be something to him besides legs.
Sundown rode to the Concho gate, dismounted and opened it. Chance ran ahead, leaping up as Corliss came from the ranch-house. "Got them holes plugged in the tank," said Sundown. "Got the engine runnin' ag'in and things is fine. You goin' to put them cattle back on the water-hole range?" "Yes, as soon as Bud can get around again. He's up, but he can't ride yet." "How's Bull?" "Oh, he's all right.
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