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"The doctor said so." "After all," mused Philip approvingly, "it's the young medical fellows who have the finest perceptions. I do need rest." Off in the checkered shadows of the forest a crow cawed derisively. "Did you like your shirt?" asked Diane with a distracting hint of raillery under her long, black lashes. "It's substantial," admitted Philip gratefully, "and democratic."
The marshal still sat against the corral gate and stroked the Winchester in beatific contemplation. He had a fine job and he was happy. Suddenly leaning forward to look up the road, he smiled derisively and shifted the gun. A cow-puncher was coming his way rapidly, and on foot. "Are you the marshal of this flea of a town?" politely inquired the newcomer.
"Oh! leave it to little Freddy to know all about the movements of Miss Mollie Skinner," crowed Phil Parker somewhat derisively; but then no one paid much attention to what Phil said, because it was well known that the said Fred had cut him out of Mollie's favors, for once upon a time she and Phil had gone together to singing-school and parties.
Throwing himself at Grater's knees and holding them tight, he threw their enemy to the ground with a crash. Malay Kris quickly disarmed and bound him and the way was clear. Jeremiah, seeing that the battle was won, turned tail and fled, Owl hooting derisively after him. Every one sat down to get his breath. Except for a few scratches no one suffered any mishap.
Nothing could induce the wagoner to stir a step from beside his horses, and he was quite content to sup upon the buckwheat balls which he had brought with him in his knapsack. Simplex, on turning in himself about midnight, derisively assured his snoring companion that he neighed as if he were turned into a horse already. Meanwhile the woman led the priest and his wife into the palisaded mansion.
"With whom do I compare thus favourably? The redoubtable Dick?" The colour came swiftly into her face and he laughed, derisively but not unkindly. "It's a new thing for me this sort of job. Are you sure my lamb-like qualities will carry me through? Do you know, dear, I've never seen you look so amazing sweet in all my life before? I never knew you could bloom like this. It's positively dangerous."
A pig was pushing its snout into it here and there and grunting from time to time. There was no other sign of life anywhere. A dreary, depressing landscape! "Remember Belgium!" said one of the men in the ranks derisively. "We won't forget it in a hurry!" "Fritz can have it for all I care!" "He's welcome to it I don't want it, I want to get back to Blighty!" We were called to attention.
The boys shouted derisively as they heard him floundering through the bushes as he hastily made his escape. "Where is Walt? Did he go hack to bed?" asked Tad, after the excitement had subsided. "To bed? No; he followed you," replied Stacy Brown. "Followed us? You are mistaken. Did you see anything of Walter Perkins, Mr. Thomas?" The guide shook his head. "Did not go with you?
"Nay, Sir Rufus, with your favor, you must do your own killing," he said. "Why, so I will," Rufus answered, angrily. "I will call up the household, lay hands on the rascal, back him to the wall, and bang a fusillade into him." Halfman laughed derisively. "Call up the household!" he crowed. "Do you think they would come at your call? Do you think they would serve you against my lady?
Now he would be making derisively defiant remarks about the 'gators; then he had something disparaging to say about the Indians; and when I spoke to him angrily he would be quiet for a time, but only to burst out with reproaches at me for calling him a "'tupid lil nigger."
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