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The last words were unfortunate. "Looks like you keer a heep fer yo' trees," sneered the mountain boy with a wave of his pistol toward a demolished woodland; "an' if our trees air so wuthless, whut do you furriners come down thar and rob us of 'em fer?" The sneer, the tone, and the bitter emphasis on the one ugly word turned Gray's face quite red.
"There, that's better," the other at length ejaculated, thrusting the money into his pocket. "Didn't we do that chap up fine? He put up quite a fight, though. But we landed him and his wad all right. I'd like to have got a rap at them kids at the same time. They nearly queered our job. Now fer another drink, and then fer a good sleep. We must be out of this before daylight."
"Hold up!" he went on, "or I'll let daylight into some of you." The effect of this challenge was instantaneous and almost ludicrous. The oncoming figures stopped, and nearly fell over each other in their haste to thrust their hands above their heads. Then the eager, anxious shout of the gray-headed brakeman came back to him. "Fer Gawd's sake don't shoot!" he cried, in terrified tones.
She ran to the window and looked down the street toward the clock on the Royal Exchange. "Three i' the afternoon," she muttered. "The time is short. Shall I? Shall I not?" "Talkin' o' letters," said Rebecca, suddenly, "I wish'd you take one down to the Post-Office fer me, Phoebe." She rose and went to a drawer in the dressing-table. "Here's one 't I wrote to Cousin Jane in Keene.
"I told ye to be careful. This island is like a reg'lar honeycomb fer holes." "Oh, my foot!" gasped Larry, as he tried to get up. "That was a tumble and no mistake," said Dick. "What's the matter with your foot, Larry?" "I don't know, excepting I must have sprained my ankle," was the answer. "Oh!" And Larry gave a loud groan.
"Well, so I stuck around and done about what I could, same as you, ain't that so, Wid? I prospected some, but you know how hard it is to get any money into a mine, no matter what you've found fer a prospect. I got along somehow seems like folks didn't use to pester so much, the way they do to-day.
Say, kid," he leaned still closer, "I'm strong fer yer when yer cheeks get all pink-like. I'm strong fer yer any time a-tall!" Rose-Marie was more genuinely shocked than she had ever been in her life. The flush receded slowly from her face. "You'd like me to be more interested in clothes than in Bible Classes!" she said slowly.
"I jest kinderly happened ter hev a day off, Alexander," he assured her, "and I 'lowed hit wouldn't hurt none fer me ter come along es far es ther railroad train with ye an' tote thet bundle." She gave it over to him, and since the trail there was narrow and thorn-hedged, she strode on ahead of him.
The young man who had stopped the team left them in the care of a newcomer, and walked around beside Idy. "Won't you come into the office and rest a little?" he asked. "Oh, thanks, no," said the girl, with a shuddering, nervous laugh; "I hain't done nothin' to make me tired. I think you're the one that ought to take a rest. If it hadn't been fer you I'd been a goner, sure."
Miss Laura's hand clasped his soiled sleeve and forth came another question, "Billy, is that little girl your sister?" "Hey? No such luck fer Buttons. She ain't nobody's sister, she ain't. She just belongs to the hull Lane, Glory does. Huh! Take-a-Stitch my sister? Wished she was. She's only cap'n Shucks!" Having so nearly betrayed himself, Billy broke from the restraining hand and disappeared.
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