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However, by this time she had somewhat recovered herself, and, approaching him, she stooped and tried to shut the box. "You take yourself off," she said, desperately, pushing him with her fist. "That money's no business o' yourn, It's John's, an' he's comin' back directly. He gave it us to look after, an' I wor countin' it. March! there's your father comin'!"
It was a hard blow, but she took heart and went to work again, resolving this time to trust no one with the dangerous part of the affair, but when she had scraped together enough to pay her way she meant to go South and steal her mother at the risk of her life. "I don't want much money, but I must know little 'bout readin' and countin' up, else I'll get lost and cheated.
"'Now you talk like a sensible man, says he. 'Now, Mickey, I've hopes for you. Let me see, here he went countin' upon his fingers, and numberin' to himself for five minutes. 'Mickey, says he, 'I've a batch coming out on Tuesday week, and if you were to make great exertions, perhaps your father could come with them; that is, av they have made no objections.
Pleasanter for me, anyhow, and I'd do my best to make it pleasant for you. You've only got to say the word and No? Well, then all I can do is hope through another voyage." "Please don't, Nat. You know." "No, I don't know." "Well, perhaps you don't. But I know. I like you, Nat. I count on you as the straightest, truest friend I've got; and I want to keep on countin' on you just that way. Mayn't I?"
"I dinna ken; if I did not fear a livin' sorrow, I would daur a dead ane," Nelly protested, with a shade of scorn in her levity; "and ye can bide in the house on the soft summer nights. The Lady of Auchtershiel need not daunder by the burn side; she can be countin' her house purse in the still room; but if I were her, I would rather beg my bread."
" and countin' the Concho stuff I'd say something like two hundred head," the messenger was saying. "Brent'll be in to-morrow, long 'bout noon. So far, she worked slick. No trouble and a show of gettin' through without any trouble. Not much young stock, so they're drivin' fast." Brevoort turned to Pete. "Take this horse over to the corral.
There was a chuckle from the bystanders. "He's ridin' this time' all right, from all I hear," said the Duke grimly. "You're right, sir," answered the old man. "Last night he was countin' his dead in his sleep. The policeman what was over his door to see no lady kidnap him for his looks heard him and tell me." The jockey, who was passing at the moment, stopped. "Say it agin," he cried fiercely.
"To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, "is it not?" "In course. Yer can leave things yer just ez you found 'em when you came, you know," continued Nott, for the first time looking round the miserable apartment. "It's a business job. I'll take the bales back agin, and you kin reckon up what you're out, countin' Rosey and loss o' time."
"Dumb I'll be, as him theer dumb, countin' the weeks an' months." "Day's broke, an' I must go home-along," said Chris. She repeated the words mechanically, then moved away without any formal farewell. At the door she turned, hastened back, kissed the dead man's face again, and then departed, while the other woman looked at her but spoke no more.
Th' maid must be leavin' here by th' last o' June," planned Douglas. "But we'll not be havin' th' money then not till th' men comes out, an' then we has t' sell th' fur first t' get th' money," Mrs. Gray explained. "Then then I hopes th' maid may go. 'Tis what Bob were goin' t' th' bush for an' takin' all th' risks for my poor lad he were countin' on un so "
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