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You must admit that he had a pretty tough four years of it up there at that cussed old Indian graveyard, and it's only natural he should enjoy getting here, where there are theatres and concerts and operas and dances and dinners "

He cussed Luce somethin' fearful. An' when Luce went for his gun, natural-like, why this Jim Cleve took it away from him. An' then he jumped Luce. He knocked an' threw him around an' he near beat him to death before we could interfere. Luce was shore near dead. All battered up broken bones an' what-all I can't say. We put him to bed an' he's there yet, an' he'll never be the same man he was."

"Suit everybody." We came to the Mayor's office, and found Sadler, sitting alone by the window and looking moodily down on the Plaza, where the chain gang from the City Jail was pretending to mend the pavement, but mostly loafing and quarrelling. "Got him!" said Dorcas joyfully. "Thumped up the Jefe. First he cussed, then he calmed. That's his way. Be up pretty soon. Hold on! Wait for the Jefe."

I heerd Blaisdell groan, an' Fredericks thar cussed somethin' fierce.... When your dad halted I reckon aboot fifty steps from Jorth then we all went numb. I heerd your dad's voice then Jorth's. They cut like knives. Y'u could shore heah the hate they hed fer each other." Blue had become a little husky. His speech had grown gradually to denote his feeling.

For when a cussed villain hunts down and destroys an innocent girl, he ought to be counted an outlaw that any man may slay who finds him. And if so be he don't get his death from the first comer, he ought to be sure of getting it from the girl's nearest male relation or next friend.

"When you analyze the thing right down to fundamentals," observed the foreman, whom men called "Jawbreaker" for obvious reasons, "it's a cussed shame. You're one of the oldest men with the outfit, and the Pilgrim is the youngest and the most inadequate. The Old Man oughta waited till he heard both sides uh the case, and I told him so.

"Only this morning, when Lance Forester and me were chirping with them gals out on the hill, who should we see hanging around in the bush but that cussed Bulger!

We can't take any chances." "Cut me loose from this cussed line, Thirkle. We can take a turn on a tree and hold the writin' chap until we have need for him." Thirkle cut him free from me, and they bound me to a broken palm-stump.

"Don't talk so, Mrs. Armstrong," he blurted. "Please don't. I I don't want you to. You you make me feel bad." "Do I? I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to say anything to hurt your feelings. I beg your pardon." "No, you don't. I I mean you hadn't ought to. You don't hurt my feelin's; I mean you make me feel bad wicked cussed mean all that and some more. I know I ought to let you have this house.

His jaws were set aggressively. "When I've nosed out the secret of this darned layout." "But " "Say, Bill," Kars' manner became suddenly alive with enthusiasm, "we've chased a thousand miles and more this summer, nosing, and scratching, and worrying to find some of the secrets of this mighty big land. We've sweated and cussed till even the flies and skitters must have been ashamed.