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Everybody gets fixed up except T. Morgan Carey, an' I work too dog-gone hard for my money to throw it away on him. When folks find Bob has sent back the money he stole he won't be anything like the evil cuss he is now an' the whole thing 'll simmer down to a big joke. When that poor broken-hearted little wife o' his hears about it she'll think it ain't so bad after all.
Marcy sat down and looked at him in a way that made Captain Beardsley mutter to himself: "I'd like the best in the world to wring that there brat's neck. He's got the upper hand of me and Shelby and all of us, and dog-gone the luck, he knows it. I'd give a dollar to know what he's got on his mind this very minute."
"Yes, an' Archie Orr's a pore sort o' crittur to git left wi' two women-folk," said Raw Harris, rising from his upturned bucket and putting forth his argument, regardless of its irrelevance. "Not a stick to shelter him which I mean 'them. An' not a dog-gone cent among 'em. By G , Arizona's right." "That's it," put in Joe Nelson; "you've hit it.
"Dog-gone!" he said abruptly, aloud, as he put the violin away, "I can't get that kid out of my thoughts!" Though he could not have told why he did so, or what he might, even remotely, expect to hear, he stood and listened intently before he stooped and disappeared for the night between the flaps of the tent.
"How long kin a fella stick on that there Blue Smoke hoss?" he queried presently. "Depends on the man," said Bailey, grinning. "Bailey here stayed with him fifteen seconds onct," said a cowboy. Pete pushed hack his hat. "Well, I ain't no bronco-twister, but I reckon I could ride him a couple o' jumps. Who's keepin' time on the dog-gone cayuse?" "Anybody that's got a watch," replied Bailey.
He saw the deserted flat on the river bank by the Klondike, and he saw the log cabins and warehouses spring up, and all the log structures he had built, and his sawmills working night and day on three shifts. "Why, dog-gone it, Miss Mason, you're right in a way. I've built hundreds of houses up there, and I remember I was proud and glad to see them go up. I'm proud now, when I remember them.
Then with the swift violence so characteristic of men of his class he slipped the pack from the burro and threw saddle and bridle from the horse. "There! See 'em! Take a look at the last dog-gone weight you ever packed! You've been some faithful to Danny Mains. An' Danny Mains pays! Never a saddle again or a strap or a halter or a hobble so long as you live!
Young Pete had crept to the window and was gazing out at the sinking flames. "Say, ain't we pardners?" he queried irritably. "You said we was when you brung me up here. And pardners stick, don't they? I reckon if it was my shack that was gittin' rushed, you 'd stick, and not go bellyin' under the bunk and hidin' like a dog-gone prairie-dog." "That's all right," said Annersley.
"I didn't hear you, but Ku Sui said you told him where Master Leithgow is. But dog-gone you couldn't help it!" Carse forgot his pain as his brain straightened these words out into their overwhelming consequence, and something of its old familiar mold, hard and graven, emotionless, came back to his face. His eyes were bleak as he murmured: "I couldn't help it no.
Sometimes he reached her first, but usually his rushes were unsuccessful and resulted in intense interior arguments. "For Heaven's sake," Perry would snarl, fiercely between his clenched teeth, "get a little pep! I could have gotten her that time if you'd picked your feet up." "Well, gimme a little warnin'!" "I did, darn you." "I can't see a dog-gone thing in here."
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