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He had talked with Catherson; the nester had told him the story, but it had been agreed between them the real story was not to be told. "They're married Hagar an' Masten. Masten come to Catherson's shack the day after I after I brought you home from there. An' they rode over to Lazette an' got hooked up. An' Catherson had been lookin' for Masten, figurin' to kill him.
But there's been worse combinations, ma'am if I do say it myself. An' me an' Red is figurin' to come through, no matter what you think of us." "Red Linton?" she said. "That is the little, short, red-haired man you put in Lawson's place, isn't it? I have never noticed him particularly. It seems that I have always thought him rather unimportant." Harlan grinned.
"But I'm figurin' as the time's gone by for a lay-out of that sort. Thar ain't liable t' be any more Injun wars an' mutinies, an' thar's no need fer another Sitting Bull. Buffalo huntin's played out, too. Buffaloes are 'most all killed off. All that's left for the Redskin is to turn his mind to agriculture, an' thar's heaps of men c'n teach 'em husbandry better'n Kiddie could."
"Law," said Stephen. "Gosh!" exclaimed Mr. Hopper, "I want to know." In reality he was a bit chagrined, having pictured with some pleasure the Boston aristocrat going from store to store for a situation. "You didn't come here figurin' on makin' a pile, I guess." "A what?" "A pile." Stephen looked down and over Mr. Hopper attentively.
He whispered to Sanderson, for in the latter's eyes he saw signs of a cold resolve to sift the matter to the bottom: "Look here, Square; I sure don't want none of your game. Things has been goin' sorta offish for me for a while, an' so when I meets a guy a while ago who tells me to 'git' a guy named Will Bransford pointin' you out to me when your back was turned I takes him up. I wasn't figurin' "
Drew, you can start figurin' what you want to say to him now. I'll get him here safe! And then Sally " "If money will buy her you'll have me behind you when you bid." "When shall I start?" "Now." "So-long, then." He rose and passed hastily from the room, leaning forward from the hips like a man who is making a start in a foot-race.
Was it because you didn't want ter ride afore folks what knowed yer? Ride afore HIM, mebbe?" "HIM?" Her face was white. Jim feared she might swoon. "You don't mean that he was " "Oh, no," he answered, quickly, "of course not. Parsons don't come to places like this one. I was only figurin' that yer didn't want OTHER folks to see yer and to tell him how you was ridin'." She did not answer.
There I was, too, on my way back to Old Hickory, figurin' whether I'd better resign first and report afterwards, or just take my chances that maybe after he'd slept on it he wouldn't be so keen about seein' this Captain Killam again. Then the whole thing hit me on the funnybone. Haw-haw!
Worth it, sometimes." He whirled on Henry, abruptly. "Well, you took your chance. Now let's see if you think it's worth it. If you're figurin' on any help from me, you got to work for it first. If you'd waited, I'd kind of made things easy for you. Now, I'm goin' to hand you the meanest job I can think of.
They have trapped the beaver in this same creek, taken fish from this same lake, and followed the buffalo on yonder prairie. Who shall stop me if I lay my line of traps where my people so long ago laid theirs?" Rube shrugged his shoulders. "I ain't figurin' ter discuss ancient hist'ry with you, mister," he said.
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