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Across his roll-top desk the inspector, speaking as follows, according to the mode of the fellowcraft, gave them their instructions: "You'll likely be findin' this here party at the Stuffed Owl. That's his regular hang-out. My information is that he's usually there regular this time of the day. I've just had word that he went in there fifteen minutes ago; it's likely he'll be stayin' a while.
"Besides," he went on, "it will be a pleasant little visit this, to a friendly tribe o' Injins, an' we may chance to fall in wi' gold, who knows? An' when the ugly thieves do succeed in findin' us, we shall have the help o' the Redskins, who are not bad fighters when their cause is a good 'un an' their wigwams are in danger." "It may be so, Paul.
If we could only have sech luck! An' I've bin dreamin' of findin' gold almost every night since we hooked up an' started for th' diggin's!" "An' your dreamin' always comes true!" replied Mrs. Perkins scornfully. "Well, I've only got this tew say, an', if I've sed it onct, I've sed it a hundred times, this is our last wild-goose chasin' trip.
He was a powerful smart man in his day, wuz ole Kunnel Potem Desmit; but he speshully did beat anythin' a findin' names fer niggers. I reckon now, ef he'd 'a hed forty thousan' cullud folks, men an' wimmen, dar wouldn't ha' been no two on 'em hevin' de same name. Dat's what folks used ter say 'bout him, ennyhow.
In five minutes everybody in Pogue's entry heard the news. They stood at the door waiting to have a look. Matty McGrath came in to see if there was "aanythin'" she could do. "Aye," Anna said, smiling, "ye can go over an' tell oul Ann Agnew where I'm goin' so she won't worry herself t' death findin' out!" "She won't see ye," Jamie said. "She'd see a fly if it lit within a hundred yards of her!"
"Well, now I guess the kettle is in the fire, all right!" ejaculated Susan, folding the letter with hands that shook a little. "What do you mean?" asked Daniel Burton. "Why, about that girl, of course. He'll find out now she's Dorothy Parkman. He can't help findin' it out!" "Well, what if he does?" demanded the man, a bit impatiently. "'What if he does?" repeated Susan, with lofty scorn.
I tracks un down though to where they comes in a boat and the boat goes again," Andy explained. "The tracks were a day old, and down by the water the tide's been in and washed un away. Whoever 'twere makes un were beyond findin' whatever. They were goin' away, I'm thinkin', right after they shoots Lem and takes his silver." "Did you tell Doctor Joe about the tracks?" asked David.
I've hunted gold fifteen to twenty years without findin' a speck, an' so it stands to reason that when I do find it I'll find a mountain of it." Although the slope rose steadily, the ground, for the present, was not much cut up, and they were able to ride in comfort. Much of the country was beautiful and parklike.
Then all my hopeful wisions bein' crushed; and findin' that there ain't no credit for me nowhere; I abandons myself to despair, and says, "Let me do that as has the least credit in it of all; marry a dear, sweet creetur, as is wery fond of me; me bein', at the same time, wery fond of her; lead a happy life, and struggle no more again' the blight which settles on my prospects."
Besides, it's kind o' lucky you happened to blow in with this free lunch; she's a bit shy on the dollar question this month an' Mulligan comes t'morrow. An' oh, say, Geoff she's dead set on findin' out how I met you an' an' where." "Very naturally!" murmured Ravenslee. "An' we must tell her something but what?" "Spike, you've forgotten the mustard!
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