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"I'd bet he'd settle the dago's hash that done to his son what the Manitou dagos done to Ingolby and settle it quick," remarked Lick Farrelly, the tinsmith. "I bet he's been a ruler or something somewhere," remarked Billy Kyle. "I bet I'm going home to breakfast," interposed Halliday, the lawyer. "There's a straight day's work before us, gentlemen," he added, "and we can't do anything here.
"You will have to make one exception, after this; and so shall I. And since it is the first of any consequence in all my mounting years, it grinds. I can't throw another man out of the window and take his place." "If you were anything but what you are, you would have thrown him out of the window another way," she rejoined. "That would have been a dago's trick; not a white man's," he asserted.
It's a comfort to see you looking brighter." "I feel pretty well. But can you tell me where I am and how I got there?" "Certainly. We'll take the last question first. Somebody tore off a shutter and we carried you on it. I guess you know you got a dago's knife between your ribs."
Not more than ten minutes gone the feller we're after shot down one o' the boys back ther' over the rise. That boy was on a fast hoss, an' was close on that all-fired Dago's heels. Wal, he got it plenty, an' we're goin' back to bury that honest citizen later. Meanwhiles, ten minutes gone that rustler got down here, an' as you say, made that river, an' you you didn't see him. Get me?
A pale, frightened, white little face had come peering over the motherly shoulder at the moment, even whiter in the flickering light of Mrs. Archer's candle, and at sound of the name there went up a low cry of distress. "Oh, Mr. Strong, is it Mrs. Bennett or the boys?" "We don't know yet, Miss Archer. The dago's here, scared to death; galloped all the way with a story of an Indian raid.
He produced a boy's derringer, which might have cost about ten dollars, Spanish dollars, in the pawnshops of Santiago. "Peestol," murmured a sailor, gasping, as he shambled forward to laugh, "peestol, the gawdem Dago's balmy." During the next few days I saw the Frenchman frequently. He was a wonder to us, and his plans were discussed at every meal, and in every watch below.
"I may need it as evidence when we get Mr. Phut, or whatever the Dago's name is." "Oh, no, I wouldn't think of taking it away. I'll look at it here. It seems to be a very old timepiece one of the first made smaller than the old 'Nuremberg eggs I fancy. Quite an interesting study watches Donovan.
The silence of the vast listening forest stole forward and enveloped them. Hank broke in suddenly with his nasal voice. "I'm in favor of breaking new ground tomorrow, Doc," he observed with energy, looking across at his employer. "We don't stand a dead Dago's chance around here." "Agreed," said Cathcart, always a man of few words. "Think the idea's good."
"I'd bet he'd settle the dago's hash that done to his son what the Manitou dagos done to Ingolby and settle it quick," remarked Lick Farrelly, the tinsmith. "I bet he's been a ruler or something somewhere," remarked Billy Kyle. "I bet I'm going home to breakfast," interposed Halliday, the lawyer. "There's a straight day's work before us, gentlemen," he added, "and we can't do anything here.
Only the dago's horrified words, only the confirmative symptoms of these farther fires, had these fly-by-night rescuers to warrant their mission. The story had its probable side.
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