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"I guess this letter's too long for me to be a-sayin' much about the show, but the 'Leap-a-Death' girl got hern last week. She wasn't strong enough for the job, nohow. I done what I could for her outside the show, 'cause I knowed how you was always a-feelin' 'bout her.
All hern go to church, an' Sunday-school, an' college, an' come out on the top of the heap. She does jest what I'd like to if I knowed how. An' she ain't come-uppety one morsel. If I was to strike acrost fields to them stuck-up Pryors, I'd get the door slammed in my face if 'twas the missus, a sneer if 'twas the man, an' at best a nod cold as an iceberg if 'twas the girl.
"As I live," he declared, "this is the first time that any money consideration has induced me to break away from our principles. Count von Hern had powerful friends who were our friends, and he gave me the word, straight, that you two had an appointment down below which was considerably overdue. I don't know, even now, why I consented. I guess it isn't much use apologising."
"It is only the one man of whom I am afraid," she said. "You have outwitted him so often and he does not forgive." De Grost smiled. It was an immense compliment, this. "Bernadine," he murmured softly, "otherwise our friend, the Count von Hern." "Bernadine," she repeated. "All that you say is true; but when one fails with modern weapons, one changes the form of attack.
"I have done got the mind of the jury and they all voted fer you and not the mule." "I hereby gives that mule to Jed Bangs and my daughter, Melissa, and I'll knock off a half on the price of his teammate to Jed if he gives me his fergiveness and hern," old Hiram rose and turned with his hand on the forelock of the mule hero to say to the assembled court room.
I could see by Si Ann's face that she not only enjoyed all I said, but believed a good share on't, and bein' such a case for justice, I felt that I ort to let her know I realized our own nation's short-comin's, as well as hern.
WHAT! An' when she comes a ridin' up t' th' office on that brown pony o' hern, I'll be dad burned if she don't pretty nigh fill th' whole out doors, ba thundas! What!" And the little shrivelled up old hillsman, who keeps the ferry, removed his cob pipe long enough to reply, with all the emphasis possible to his squeaky voice, "She sure do, Ike. She sure do.
"Major Kosuth, whom I have the honour to present Major Kosuth, Sir William Bounderby is high up in the diplomatic service of a people with whom we must feel every sympathy the young Turks. The Count von Hern, who takes my brother-in-law's place, is probably known to you by name." Sir William welcomed his visitors cordially. "You do not shoot, Major Kosuth?" he asked.
"The reward which you offer to the Count von Hern," Peter remarked, "is of itself absolutely inimical to the interests of my country." "Listen!" the Prince demanded, tapping the table before him. "It is true that within a year I am pledged to reward the Count von Hern in certain fashion.
Which do you believe, then, in your heart, to be the more trustworthy the Count von Hern or I?" She simply stared at him. He continued promptly: "You have received your warning, I see." "From whom?" "From the Count von Hern. Why believe what he says? He may be a friend of yours he may be a dear friend but in your heart you know that he is both unscrupulous and selfish.
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