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"Hallo, Yank!" said one of them, as Frank came down, "I reckon as how you had better travel right back up sta'rs agin, 'cause it's agin orders to 'low you fellers to come down here a'ter dark." "I know it is," answered Frank; "but it is so awful hot up stairs that I can't stand it. You'll let me stay down here long enough to cool off a little, won't you?"
"Yes," drawled Ike, regarding the cayuse with contemptuous eyes, "he's all right. You can't kill them fellers. But, as I remarked, you'd be better inside." He walked around the buckboard and his eyes fell upon the doctor. "What the " Ike checked himself, either out of deference to Shock's profession or more likely from sheer amazement.
His banjo stood against the wall just outside his cell, and under the lamp. "No," said Mr. Daddles, "we're awaiting our trial in the morning, the same as you." "What was your crime, anyway? Whistling?" Justin shook his head at the man in the cell. "You fellers better look out, all on ye," said he. "Eb's pretty mad. An' he's got a bad temper when he gets riled, I tell you.
If you stop here, we stop too, an' that's why I got the ammunition. More than that. Ther's others, too, won't see you taken. Ther's fellers with us in the camp fellers who owe you a heap like I do." The Padre watched the steam rising from the kettle with moody eyes. The youngster was tempting him sorely. He knew Buck's determination, his blind loyalty. He felt that herein lay his own real danger.
They've turned off; they're goin' down to Hank's. Let's go too. Come on, fellers, what d'you say? I'm allfired dry. Ain't you?" "I'm willun'," said Frank Rice; "what d'you say, Lime?" John looked up into Lime's face and said to him, in a low voice, "Let's go home; that was Steve a-drivin'." Lime nodded and made a sign to John to keep still, but John saw his head lift.
You pick out maybe half a dozen good fellers, who kin keep their mouths shet, an' make Injuns out of 'em. 'Tain't likely she 'll ever twig any of the boys fixed up proper in thet sorter outfit anyhow, she'd be too durned skeered. Then you lay fer her, say 'bout next Wednesday, out in them Carter woods, when she 's comin' home from school.
Are you shore them three hundred thousand reinforcements will get up in time?" "Quite shore. I've sent 'em word to hurry." "Then we'll have to take them, too." "Time you fellers quit your talkin'," said Brayton, "a major or a colonel may come strollin' 'long here any minute, an' they don't like for us fellers to be too friendly.
He shoved one in my outside pocket over to Pondville when I warn't lookin', the day 'fore I held up this man Bowditch, and went and told the fellers 'round the tavern that I had it. They come and pulled it out and had the laugh on me, and then he began to talk and said he'd write to Jennetta and send her one o' the picters by mail and tell her he'd got it out o' my coat, and he did.
Think of it, fellers, and I speak speshul to you whiskey souses wot ain't breathed pure air sence you was let loose on the same gent's bowel picklin' sperrit.
Why, I could sail a whole ship all alone if I wanted to," was the confident reply. "Now you fellers be ready just as soon as it's light to-morrow mornin', an' we'll start." "Then you'll have to come back alone," and Joe began to fear that they were accepting too much from this new acquaintance, who must belong to some important family in the city since he was the owner of such a beautiful craft.
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