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'If ye'll take my tip, said the depot man, 'ye'll say neither yes nor no till ye get to barracks. Kape the ould blagyard hangin' on and off till ye get inside the gates, and then tell him to go to blazes. If ye loike to work him properly, ye can kape him as smooth as soft soap all the way. If ye say no too early he'll be on t'ye like a ton o' pig-iron.
"No, I didn't know he had. How did you know it?" "I knew. Ain't much goin' on that I don't know; I make it my business to know. Why don't you sell out to old Holliday?" "I don't want to sell. My boardin'-house has just got a good start and why should I give it up? I won't sell." "Oh, you won't! Pretty independent for anybody with a mortgage hangin' over 'em, ain't ye?"
"If what?" The lad turned sullen. "Never mind," he said, and glared almost defiantly at Lund. "Is that door shut?" the giant asked Rainey. "Some of 'em might be hangin' 'round." Rainey went to the corridor and closed and locked the entrance. "Now then, you young devil," said Lund. "What they did to you for'ard ain't a marker on what I'll do to you if you don't speak up an' answer when I talk.
A sudden, cold stillness fell upon her senses. "Let's sit down outdoors," Sprague was saying. "Nice an' sunny this mornin'. I declare I'm out of breath. Not used to walkin'. An' besides, I left Grass Valley, in the night an' I'm tired. But excoose me from hangin' round thet village last night! There was shore " "Who who was killed?" interrupted Ellen, her voice breaking low and deep.
You'll find me either here or hangin' around near. Let's fix the thing up and git ready. I think a new regiment'll be down here tomorrow, and all the men'll have their first installment o' bounty and a month's pay." Shorty hurried back to Headquarters and laid his precious papers before the Chief Clerk, who could not contain his exultation.
We aims ter hev our hangin' without no deefault, but with a diff'rent man swingin' on ther rope!" For the space of forty seconds that seemed as many minutes a thunder-brooding tension hung in the stillness of the room then without haste or excitement Rick Joyce took off his hat and dropped it to the floor. After it he flung his mask, and when he had crossed the line, he turned.
If thar's enough sense in this camp to make bakin'-powder biscuit, you-alls will have a jedge 'lected ready for me to have law cases with by second-drink time to-morrow mornin'." "'After hangin' up this bluff the Dallas sharp, puttin' on a heap of hawtoor an' dog, walks over to the tavern ag'in, an' leaves us to size up the play at our lcesure.
The lookout's a gun. I know him. So is that guy at the wheel. Pony's pardner packs a gat; and that guy standin' over by the wall, smoking is drawin' down reg'lar pay for jest standin' there, every night. 'Sides, they ain't enough stuff in sight to take a chanct for. We ain't organized for this kind of a deal." "Then what's the use of hangin' around?"
Them two angels, as I couldn't hardly keep callin' 'em, if one of 'em wuz a he angel them two lovely good creeters wuz married right in the place where I wanted 'em to be married right in our parlor, in front of the picter of Grant, and not fur back of the hangin' lamp, but fur enough back so's to allow of a lovely bell of white roses and lilies to swing over their heads.
Darting to the back of the cabin, he peered through a chink. "Come here," he softly commanded. I joined him and took his place at the peephole. There was a haze of smoke in the eastern sky. "That's why Black Hoof an' his men are hangin' round here," he sighed. "He sent a small band farther east. They've made a kill. That's a burnin' over there." "That would be Edgely's cabin," I decided.
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