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'Tain't all pleasure, neither. In a sight of trouble this minnit." "I want to know," said Scattergood. "Stand to lose my job," said John, sadly. "Dunno where I'll find me another." "What you been doin', eh? What got you in bad?" "One of them dummed gold shipments from the state bank. Hadn't ought to speak about it, 'cause the comp'ny's bein' awful secret. Hain't lettin' it out."
"Twenty head they've took from me," he spat out angrily. "Twenty head in one night an' they think they c'n git away with it an' go on doin' jest what they damn please!" He jerked his cinch tight, climbed into his saddle and as his young horse whirled about Thornton saw that he had a rifle under his leg.
'No, sar; not a word. 'How do you suppose we got it here? 'Fotched in a wagon. 'Let me show you what he can do. He was about to step into the wagon, when the hunter stopped him. 'See hyar, younker, who mought yer be? The boy gave his name and residence. 'What yer doin' hyar? 'I'm traveling with this machine of mine. 'How do you git it along?
One thing, my little baa-lamb'll take a bit o' knockin' out." "Where is he?" asked Silver. "Away on the right there," answered the old man. "Doin' a cake-walk on the next hoss's toes." There was very little trouble at the post. The starter got his field away well together at the first drop of the flag. Only one was left, and that was green.
Of course," he said, "if I was to go on as I be now I'd want ye to stay jest as you are; but, as I was sayin', you're to a consid'able extent independent. You hain't no speciul ties to keep ye, an' you ought anyway, as I said before, to be doin' better for yourself than jest drawin' pay in a country bank."
Now, when a party wins and its men come forward and ask for their rewards, the reply is, "Nothin' doin', unless you can answer a list of questions about Egyptian mummies and how many years it will take for a bird to wear out a mass of iron as big as the earth by steppin' on it once in a century?"
"You think that Jake's quietly getting the drop on me?" "Wal, I allow ef I wus Jake I'd be gettin' a'mighty busy that way. An' I kind o' calc'late that's wot he's doin'." Tresler smiled and returned to his work. "And what form do you think his 'drop' will take?" he asked, without looking up. "I ain't gifted wi' imagination. Y' ain't never sure which way a blind mule's likely ter kick.
That's the story she's allus had, and boastin, of course, dreadful, about John's trustin them, and Isaac doin all his business for him. The minister reflected. 'And you say the legacy wasn't much? 'Well, sir, I know some people over at Bedford where her aunt lived as left it her, and they were sure it wasn't a great deal; but you never know. 'And Isaac never said? 'Bless yer, no sir!
The woman's brutal frankness touched her at last. "Who and what do you think you are yourself?" "Nothin'," Nell Beecroft returned composedly. "Nobody at all. Just the wife of a horse-thief that's doin' time. But," and her hard, gray eyes flashed in momentary pride, "he learnt me the diffrunce between sand and a yellow-streak.
If Macnamara be alive, what be Macnamara doin'? An' what be Wingate an' Kitchener an' great foolks at Cairo doin'?" "They're sayin', 'Macnamara, 'oos 'e? 'E ain't no class. 'Oo wants Macnamara!" Holgate raised himself on his elbow, a look of interest in his face, which he tried to disguise. "See, laad," he said, "why does tha not send messenger thaself a troosty messenger?"
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