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He turned to mount, for he had flung himself off before Lita stopped, but the old lady caught his jacket and asked half a dozen questions in a breath. "Who's your folks? What's broke? How'd she fall? Where is she? Why didn't she come right here? Is it a sunstroke?"
There we'll dress the Chapman into fighting trim, set up our guns aboard and capture the first Pacific Mail liner with gold out of California." "You're a clever fellow, Harpending. How'd you get those guns aboard without suspicion?" "Through a Mexican friend," replied Harpending. "He said he needed them to protect his mine in South America.
I sent the list to Chester by a trusted aide, and I have no doubt he is on his way out of the country with it now." "How'd you get it?" inquired Stubbs. Hal explained. "By George!" said Stubbs. "You fellows have all the luck. I tried and failed." "Maybe you didn't know where it was," said Hal. "Didn't, eh? Say, let me ask you something.
Then she leaned forward over the horn of the saddle, and smiled down into the unclean face gawking up at her. "How'd you fancy looking after my horses and saddle and things? I mean just look after them for me, and nothing else?" The boy's eyes lit. "Bully!" he cried eagerly. "That way I wouldn't have to wash lousy clothes for the bunkhouse.
"Make ye putty comf'table?" he asked, turning to eject a mouthful into the fire. "I got along pretty well under the circumstances," said John. Mr. Harum did not press the inquiry. "How'd you leave the gen'ral?" he inquired. "He seemed to be well," replied John, "and he wished to be kindly remembered to you." "Fine man, the gen'ral," declared David, well pleased. "Fine man all 'round.
"He's in bad shape, though, with the things the bullet carried into him, but we sure swabbed him out. How'd the game go to-night, boys?" "Purty good." Buck shook his head. "Tammer sure had luck his way won a seventy-dollar pot onct." "I sure wanted to play," Grell shook his head, "but in my profession you aren't your own, and you cayn't quit." "We owe you for it," Buck said. "He's our friend "
We struck the raft at the same time, and in less than two seconds we was gliding down stream, all dark and still, and edging towards the middle of the river, nobody saying a word. I reckoned the poor king was in for a gaudy time of it with the audience, but nothing of the sort; pretty soon he crawls out from under the wigwam, and says: "Well, how'd the old thing pan out this time, duke?"
As he was going down the steps the man called: "Say, boy, how'd you like a steady job?" For the first minute it seemed pretty mean making fun of a fellow that way! "This will be here every day. Suppose you come each day, about this time, and take it over there not mentioning it to anybody." Stubby felt weak. "Why, all right," he managed to say. "I'll give you fifty cents a week. That fair?"
I get sick of handing out dope to these yaps," said he. "I was afraid for a while it was going to blow. Looked like it." "What of it?" asked Bob. "When it blows up here, it'd lift the feathers off a chicken and the chicken off the earth," explained Selwyn. "I've seen more than one good prospect ruined by a bad day." "How'd you come out?" inquired Bob. "Got one.
Even so friendly an interest as this must have appeared to the quivering William an intrusion in his affairs, for he demanded, sharply: "How'd you find out she's going at one o'clock?" "Why why, Jane mentioned it," Mrs. Baxter replied, with obvious timidity. "Jane said " She was interrupted by the loud, desperate sound of William's fist smiting his writing-table, so sensitive was his condition.
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