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"Anything your little heart de-sires." They bought hot chestnuts, city harbingers of autumn, from a vender, and let fall the hulls as they walked. They drank strawberry ice-cream soda, pink with foam. Her resuscitation was complete; his spirits did not wane. "I gotta like a queen pretty much not to get sore at a busted evening like this. It's a good thing the ticket didn't cost me nothing."
"He pays the freight." "Speech!" "Say, Doc," bawled a waggish soul, "I gotta corn, marchin' up here. Will Certina cure it?" And another burst into the final lines of a song then popular; in which he was joined by several of his fellows: "Father, he drinks Seltzer. Redoes, like hell! "Ladies and gentlemen," boomed the wily charlatan.
Barbara, spurred by curiosity, accompanied her father. "You heard what Benito says?" asked Grayson, turning toward his employer. The latter nodded. All eyes were upon Bridge. "Well," snapped Grayson, "what you gotta say fer yourself? I ben suspectin' you right along. I knew derned well that that there Brazos pony never run off by hisself.
He leaned closer, and above his tall, narrow collar dull red flowed beneath the sallow, and his long, white teeth and slick-brushed hair shone in the arc-light. "Eh, Queenie?" "I gotta go now, Charley. Hattie's waiting home for me." She attempted to pass him and to slip into the outgoing stream of the store, but with a hesitation that belied her. "I I gotta go, Charley."
He stared at the detective. "You're not joking? If so, your levity is decidedly ill-timed." "Yeah," agreed McCorquodale doubtfully. "Uh-hunh. On'y I don't happen to be wavin' no wand an' floatin' horizontal in the air, see. I'm handin' it to you straight up an' down. Stiles is there an' we gotta get him away from those guys.
"Jim, them hosses are wilder 'n deer," he said. "I ketched mine, an' Moze got two. But the rest worked away whenever we come close. Some varmint has scared them bad. We all gotta rustle out thar quick." Wilson rose, shaking his head doubtfully. And at that moment the quiet air split to a piercing, horrid neigh of a terrified horse. Prolonged to a screech, it broke and ended.
He informed the agent at San Pasqual that he was the Bakersfield representative of the Associated Press, and demanded the latest information regarding the hunt for the Garlock bandit. He was informed that there was no news. "I gotta get some news" he bellowed into the receiver. "What's the exact loss o' your company?" "Twenty-one hundred eighty-three forty." "Serves you right.
"Ho, ho! that's you, ain't it," he asked the smith curiously, indicating with a grimy thumb the exact position of that dignitary on the drawing. "Don't," said the latter, loftily "sure! He's gotta have room." "An' there's me. Ho! Ho! Gee, I look swell, don't I? Ho! ho!" The little helper's tushes were showing joyously a smile that extended far about either side of his face.
"We gotta find her, bo," he said to Theriere. "We gotta find the skirt." Ordinarily Billy would have blustered about the terrible things he would do to the objects of his wrath when once he had them in his power; but now he was strangely quiet only the firm set of his strong chin, and the steely glitter of his gray eyes gave token of the iron resolution within.
We always do when we need anything awfully. Look at the bathtub! Good-night! I'm goin' to earn one myself!" declared Bob. "Mrs. Crosby's gotta get a new one. P'raps she'll sell us her old one cheap." That was the way the music idea started, and nothing else was talked of at the table for days but how to get a piano.
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