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In his mad gladness at being within rifle-shot of his great Indian foe, Wetzel had forgotten the man he had trailed for two days. He had forgotten Miller. He had only one shot and Betty was to be avenged. He gritted his teeth. The Delaware chief was as safe as though he were a thousand miles away.

If she tried to set them on anyone, they'd think it was a cast and be off!" Then quietly added: "I've wired home for an airedale terrier. With him as her friend, she can go anywhere!" "That is most thoughtful," the old gentleman murmured. "But, Brent, that damned half-wit will take savage delight in spreading his story " the Colonel gritted his teeth and could not finish.

Ten of us should go with him ten of the huskiest miners mounted upon the stanchest bronchoes the camp could supply. "We shall come up with the hellions before mornin'," said he, and then he gritted his teeth significantly.

Gregory left Legonia at ten-thirty with his speed-boat. There were five in the launch. Four men and Miss Lang." Mascola drew in his breath sharply. "That damned Lang girl," he began. "She is a " Bandrist slid from his chair with a quick movement which carried him wriggling about the table. "Keep your tongue still," he gritted as he towered over the Italian. "You talk too much."

"We want no sick men about this camp. It will fix you in a minute." But the guide steadfastly refused to separate the white teeth. "Boys, open his mouth while I pour the medicine down him," gritted the Professor. They required no urging to do the Professor's bidding. Tad and Ned ranged themselves on either side of the patient, while Chunky sat on the guide's feet.

Then how'd I git my larnin'?" He gritted his teeth, and suddenly yelled at them: "I won't take no chances! I'll git the larnin', I tell ye! 'N' if one, or a hund'ed, tries ter come 'tween me 'n' hit " He did not finish, but stood swaying from side to side with an overwhelming intensity of feeling.

There was a moment, in which the gravelled pathway first made itself known to my naked feet, and the cutting wind to my naked flesh, when I think it possible that, had I gritted my teeth, and strained my every nerve, I might have shaken myself free from the bonds which shackled me, and bade defiance to the ancient sinner who, for all I knew, was peeping at me through the window.

Even then, it took some talking to convince Rock that the affair was truly serious and not to be treated any longer as a joke. "Why, damn it, man, I'm in love with a girl and I want to marry her if I can get rid of this other darned, mysterious, Tom-fool of a woman," Ford gritted at last, in sheer desperation. "Or if it's just a josh, by this and by that I mean to find it out." Rock sobered then.

"You will like hell," gritted Johnny, and hit the sheriff on the jaw, sending him full tilt against the clerk, who fell over a chair so that the two sprawled on the floor. For that, the third man, who was a deputy sheriff as it happened, grappled with Johnny from behind, and slipped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists.

'As long as I live, he said, 'the family must not break up, we must go on altogether. She gave a look and gritted her teeth.... Fritters were served, she would not eat them." "A-a-a!..." Crutch was surprised. "And tell me, if you please, when does she sleep?" said Lipa.