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"Without presuming to dictate, why not at the beginning?" "It's all so darned complicated that I don't rightly know which is the beginning. Well, see here . . . I collect scarabs. I'm crazy about scarabs. Ever since I quit business, you might say that I have practically lived for scarabs." "Though it sounds like an unkind thing to say of anyone," said Ashe. "Incidentally, what are scarabs?"
Keller growled something about all "darned half-breeds" being glad of any excuse to shirk duty. Frewen took him up sharply: "This man is no shirker, sir. He is as good a man as ever 'stood up' to strike a whale. Did you ever see a better one?" Keller looked at his second officer with fourteen months' repressed brutality glowering in his savage eyes. "I'm the captain of this ship.
Maddison hastily put the paper back in his pocket, and with a glance checked his son's gesture of protest. "Guess we'd better pass on to the next thing, Ri. I told you it wasn't any darned use just asking.
The old Carl, with the enthusiasm which had served him for that undefined quality called "courage," began to come to life again, laughing, "Let the darned old business bust, if she's going to." Only, it refused to bust.
He had made an immense gain in health. "How long have I been here, Jim?" he asked in a slow, calm voice. "Come Thursday, three weeks!" When Jim was most laconic he was often inwardly bursting with desire for conversation. After a silence Conning spoke again: "Say, Jim, are there any other people in this mountain range, except you and me?" "Ugh! just bristlin' with folks! Getting too darned thick.
"You'd better be putting your rigging on the filly," as he slid from his broncho and stepped to the door of the stall. There was no answer. He peered into the half-gloom of the place. It was empty save for the two horses. "That's funny as thunder," he said, puzzled, to Bert. "Where'd you reckon th' Ramblin' Kid is?" "Darned if I know ain't he there?"
But he had smiled bravely at her in spite of the trouble in his blue eyes. "Don't mind, Mums. It is all right," he had said steadily. "We've got to win. We can't risk my darned ankle's flopping. It's the bleachers for me. The game's the thing." The game had always been the thing for Phil.
"Then say to her for me that she must keep the money, every penny of it." Simmy was staggered. "But she—she doesn't want it," he muttered, lamely. His face brightened. "I say, old boy, why let the measly money stand in the way? Take her and the money too. Don't be so darned finicky about—" "Come, come, old fellow," protested Thorpe, eyeing him coldly. "All right," said Simmy resignedly.
"Just a tip, Ernestine," he said at parting, his gray eyes frankly and genially on hers, but his voice sufficiently serious to warn her. "What have I been doing now?" she pouted laughingly. "Nothing... as yet. But don't get started, or you'll be laying up a sore heart for yourself. You're only a kid yet eighteen; and a darned nice, likable kid at that.
Jeanne, coming into the room, quickly took the garment from her. "Madame, she must not do that. Quelle horreur! I will attend to it at once." Drusilla laughed. "Can't I even patch my dress?" she said. "Jane, where are my stockin's? I am sure there must be some darnin'." Jeanne looked at her reproachfully. "Madame does not wear darned stockings." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Drusilla.
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