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Their hands clasped in the brief, tight greeting of the West that is death to the hand-shake microbe. "You old fat rascal!" continued Wide-Brim, with a wrinkled brown smile; "it's been five years since I seen you. I been in this town a week, but you can't find nobody in such a place. Well, you dinged old married man, how are they coming?"
Bartley was busy, assembling the Luger, and Cheyenne was watching him, when they glanced up simultaneously. A shadow drifted between them. Cheyenne hesitated and then stepped forward. "I'll be dinged if it ain't Jimmy! What you doin' up here in the brush, anyhow?" The boy, who rode a well-mannered gray pony, kicked one foot out of the stirrup and hooked his small leg over the horn.
She sank into a leather-cushioned seat in a corner of the lift. Two men entered briskly, followed by a bellboy. Mrs. McChesney did not look up. "Well, I'll be dinged!" boomed a throaty voice. "Mrs. McChesney, by the Great Horn Spoon! H'are you? Talking about you this minute to my friend here."
An' arter a while ther ain't no more trees grows, ther lan' is thet poor, by gosh! jist a plumb dead levil er' short grass, an' no show ter hide ner nuthin'." "Were you ever there, Seth?" I questioned with growing anxiety, for I had heard some such vague rumors as these before. "Me? Not by a dinged sight!" he replied, emphatically.
Joe sat up. "Have they found you out? Do they come to you?" "They do especially the young wives with their troubles. All of them troubled over their husbands and their children. We have the finest talks together. They're a splendid lot!" "Who's come, in particular?" "Well, there's one who isn't married one of the best of them." "Not Sally Heffer!" "The same!" "I'm dinged!"
However, I don't blame Tobey, for he's a fine man, and a hard-working one, if he hasn't got the gift of speech and is never able to come to the point, though that's not for the lack of having it dinged into his ears, for if I says it once I says it fifty times a day, 'Tobey, will you come to the point?" Mr. Jayres took up his pen. "Well, let's see," he said. "What is your full name, Mr. Tobey?"
Since you put it into words I see what you mean, but it's dinged hard on Elnora, just the same. And I don't keep out. I keep watching closer than ever. I got my slap in the face, but if I don't miss my guess, Kate Comstock learned her lesson, same as I did. She learned that I was in earnest, that I would haul her to court if she didn't loosen up a bit, and she'll loosen. You see if she doesn't.
It dinged his mood, of course, so that the red under his eyes and the folds of his crumply cheeks which seemed to speak of a touch of bloodhound introduced a long way back into his breeding drew deeper and more manifest. If he could have spoken at such times, he would have said: "I have been a long time alone, and I cannot always be asleep; but you know best, and I must not criticise."
They lapsed into silence while the latter returned to his measuring, and then out of the drift of thought came this from the helper in the corner: "Yes, and look at the way Bailey used to sponge on him. Get his money Saturday night and drink it all up, and then Sunday morning, when his wife and children were hungry, go cryin' around Potter. Dinged if I'd 'a' helped him.
But Ferdy did not heed either this warning or the look on Gordon's face. His game had now a double zest: he could sting Gordon and worry Rhodes. "I don't see why my old man was such a fool as to want such a dinged lonesome old place for, anyhow," he said, with a little laugh. "I am going to give it away when I get it." Gordon's face whitened and flamed again, and his eyes began to snap.
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