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I don't know how long I've been here, but I kind o' woke up las' night ez ef I'd been asleep; she wuz a-standin' lookin' in my eyes, an' hed a han' on my cheek. 'I b'lieve it's turned, sez she, still a-lookin'. After a bit she sez: 'It's turned sure, an' all of a sudden she tumbled. I couldn't holler I wish to God I could."
But none had chanced to have a call to go, and it was to them as a foreign land to be explored. "Waal, I hev, time an' agin," said Grinnell. "I dunno who gin them rocks the name of Moses' tables o' the Law. Moses must hev hed a powerful block an' tackle ter lift sech tremenjious rocks. I hev known 'em named sech fur many a year.
I sayed afore, an' I say so still, thet I'd ruther she war dead that in the arms o' thet ere stinkin' Mormon. Poor Marian! she's hed but a short life, o' 't, an' not a very merry one eyether." "What! Marian? Is it of her you are speaking?" "Why, sartin, capt'n. Who else shed it be?" "Marian dead?" "Yes poor girl, she never lived to see that Salt Lake city whar the cussed varmint war takin' her.
All thet speedin' in the autoomoobile was jest a-scarin' of me to death fer nothin'. I tell you Link Stevens is crazy about runnin' thet car. Link never hed no sense even with a hoss. He ain't afraid of the devil hisself. If my hair hedn't been white it 'd be white now. No more rides in thet thing fer me! Wal, we ketched Ambrose an' the girl too late.
"Was Laycock coming from the moor also?" "Nay, he was coming from t' village, and was going across t' moor to a knur match on Eltham Common." "Did Laycock swear to that?" "Ay, he did. He were varry loth to do it; for Ben and him hed laked together when they were lads, and been thick as thack iver since, till Mary Clough came between 'em.
Sunk to ther hubs in mud holes an' then if it wusn't thet ther wuz ther sand to shove through and they hed ter give it up. No, ther vehicle or ther critter hain't invented that's goin' ter get away off thar back of beyond whar the gold lies or whar they say it does," he added rather doubtfully. "When I was a kid back East my poor mother used ter tell me that gold lay at ther end of ther rainbow.
"Then county court days, goin' to county court, an' comin' from county court, sech passels an' passels o' folks! I wisht we-uns hed it afore the jury o' view kem, so we-uns mought view the jury o' view." "It's along o' the jury o' view ez we-uns will git the road, ef we do git it," the young man said cautiously.
Hatton desired or declared. I hed to do the same thing in my way, and Mrs. Hatton on board this yacht was really her captain. I'm not saying but what she was a satisfactory substitute, for she hed the sense to always ask my advice." "Then she acted under orders, Captain." "To be sure.
I hed more money 'n thet," complained Lem. "Jim, you rode to Kremmlin' last. Did you take my money?" "Wal, come to think of it, I reckon I did," replied Jim, in surprise at the recollection. "An' whar's it now?" "Pard, I 'ain't no idee. I reckon it's still in Kremmlin'. But I'll pay you back." "I should smile you will. Pony up now."
Duane could not possibly attend to all the conversation among the outlaws. He endeavored to get the drift of talk nearest to him. "Kid Fuller's goin' to cash," said a sandy-whiskered little outlaw. "So Jim was tellin' me. Blood-poison, ain't it? Thet hole wasn't bad. But he took the fever," rejoined a comrade. "Deger says the Kid might pull through if he hed nursin'."
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