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Pete shook his head and answered with the importance of an envoy: "Bas, he's fer us, body an' soul, an' he aims ter succour us every way he kin but he figgers he kin compass hit best fashion by seemin' ter stand solid with ther old leaders." Sim Squires said nothing but he spat contemptuously when the name of Bas Rowlett was mentioned.
In some of the figgers they seemed to be givin' presents to each other, and had these presents kinder strung onto 'em, same as savages ornament themselves with beads and things, though these wuz quite pretty lookin' and seemed made up of posies and ribbins and pretty little trinkets.
'Stay away from it. I'll tell you when I gets ready to level. You can't bet them bookies nothin' they're wise to him. "'Look-a-here, Bud! says Joe. 'That bird'll cake-walk among them crabs. No jock can make him lose, 'n' not get ruled off. "'Leave that to me, I says. "Just as I figgers my hoss opens up eight-to-five in the books.
And Josiah wuz indeed in his glory as he told the various deacons and church pillows that gathered round him from time to time, of all his fashionable experiences and dangerous exploits while absent. Of course my time wuz more took up by my female friends, but anon or oftener I would ketch the sound of figgers in connection with fish that wuz astoundin' in the extreme.
"Not much. 'You've got the Pontiac, Nott, sez he. 'You bet! sez I. 'What'll you take for her and the lot she stands on? sez he, short and sharp. Some fellers, Rosey," said Nott, with a cunning smile, "would hev blurted out a big figger and been cotched. That ain't my style. I just looked at him. 'I'll wait fur your figgers until next steamer day, sez he, and off he goes like a shot.
In response to his call Ailsa Mowbray appeared, followed by Jessie. Murray indicated Alec with a nod. "We're good friends again," he said. "We've acted like two school kids, eh, Alec?" he added. "And now we've made it up. Alec figgers he'd like to go down with me this fall to Leaping Horse, Seattle, 'Frisco, and maybe even New York. I told him I guessed you'd stake him."
He gets all tied up with the woman belonging to Shaunbaum. And Shaunbaum figgers to kill him. Murray needs that. It'll save him acting that way himself. But he's taking no chances. He watches all the while. He locates everything, every move Shaunbaum makes. How I can't guess, but it's easy to a feller like Murray. Well, the gunmen get around. Maybe you'll say this is just a guess.
"I was rais' a Catholic, but when I come here twant no church an' I joined de Baptis' an' was baptised. Now de white folks lemme go to dey church. Dey aint no cullud church near 'nough so's I can go. I spec' its all right. I figgers dat God is ever'where. "My Mistis knowed how to read an' write. I don' know 'bout de Marster. He could keep sto' anyway. Us all spoke French in dem days.
"Letty figgers that somebody tossed that goldsack over the top of the cage after you follered the Count out." "Impossible," Pierce declared. "I got an idea." It was Broad speaking again. "The mere contemplation of physical violence unmans that Frog. He'd about as soon have a beatin' as have a leg cut off with a case-knife.
"Don't move nor nothin', or we'll blow holes through your figgers that'll cause a hell of a draught. We ain't yearning to make no sort o' mess in this yer caboose. But we're going to do it 'cep' you keep quite still, an' don't worry any." The conductor was a man of wide experience on the railroad. He had seen many "hold-ups." So many, he was almost used to them.
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