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"'There be many trumpets, says he, 'oh yes, an' it wes a good trumpet Zaccheus heard, and afore a' knew where a' wes he hed startit again wi' fower new heads, as if he had never said trumpet. "'A big tree' he cries, 'an' a little man, oh yes, an' this is what we will be doin'. "'First. We shall go up the tree wi' Zaccheus. "'Second. We shall sit in the branches wi' Zaccheus. "'Third.
Another greaser kept flashin' his gun outside the train. The big man who shoved back the car-door an' did the killin' he was the real gent, an' don't you forget it." Some of the posse sided with the cowboy leader and some with the old cattleman. Finally the young leader disgustedly gathered up his bridle. "Aw, hell! Thet sheriff shoved you off this trail. Mebbe he hed reasons Savvy thet?
Thet wus the easiest part of it. Them Dutchmen could n't talk nuthin' but their own lingo; an' thar wa'n't a navigator aboard, fer Sanchez hed kept all the offercers with him, an' the end wus about a week later, when we piled up against an island off the African coast, an' only one boat load of us got ashore. Thet's whut I know about Sanchez."
They hardly knew whether to be angry or to laugh at the woman's blunt frankness. But Roy struck in with a question: "Wasn't Mr. Mortlake, accompanied by Harding, out here last night?" "Why, yes," said the woman, with perfect candor. "They stayed quite a while. Harding hed some business with Ike, an' " "An' Gene Mortlake said he'd like ter hev a look at yer aeroplane.
There's plenty o' smart, stirring women that would mend ye up, and cook for ye, and do well by ye. 'No, says he; 'I've hed my wife, and I've lost her. 'Well, now, says I, 'ye've shown respect, and there's the boy a-growin' up, and if either of you was took sick, why, here ye be. 'Yes, says he, 'here I be, sure enough; and he drawed a long breath, 's if he felt bad; so that's all I said.
Everybody in town was sayin' what a shame 'twas that he should sarve her so; for though he hed other children, they was married and gone, and there wa'n't none of them to do for him but jest Miry. "Wal, he hung on till jest as the pinys in the front yard was beginnin' to blow out, and then he began, to feel he was a goin', and he sent for Parson Lothrop to know what was to be done about his soul.
"Waal," drawled the tanner, with a certain constraint, "I hed been promisin' Birt a day off fur a right smart while, an' I tole him ez he mought ez well hev the rest o' ter-day. He 'lowed ez he warn't partic'lar 'bout a day off, now. But I tole him ennyhow ter go along. I seen him a while ago passin' through the woods, with his rifle on his shoulder gone huntin', I reckon."
I'll know, s'she, defiant, 'whether they's anything to the law or whether they ain't. "I hed her take some strong coffee from breakfast, an' I got her, after some more fumin's an' fustin's, to walk back to the cemetery with me, till we give a look around. I do as many quick-moved things as some, but I allus try, first, to give a look around.
Ef Briscoe war minded ter step into Frank Dean's shoes, he hev jes' hed ter take what war savin' up fur the revenuer, that's all!" Once more he relapsed into silent staring at the brink, balked, dumfounded, and amazed. Suddenly he seemed to respond to some inward monition of danger, of responsibility.
"Wal, I hunkered down, an' still keepin' the blanket spread out afore me, I hung it upon a saplin' that I had brought from the camp. I then stuck the saplin' upright in the ground; an' mind ye, it wan't so easy to do that, for the parairy wur hard friz, an' I hed to dig a hole wi' my knife.
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