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Barger's speech was the first returning function. It was faint, and weak, and blasphemous. "It's hell," he said, "when God Almighty turns agin a man. Ain't the sheriff's enough without a thing like that?" His thumb made a gesture towards the river, which he cursed abominably cursing it for a trap, a seeming benefit, here in the desert, ready to eat a man alive. Van made no reply.

"There, it's beginning to come out of the door, the smoke, I mean!" exclaimed the anxious Bud. "I want to get a snap-shot of the event when the bear rushes out," said Hugh; "because there are a lot of fellows these days who want to see the proof every time you tell them a story that seems out of the common run.

The performance had just commenced, and though the display was by no means brilliant, yet the boys enjoyed it, and soon forgot the existence of everything except clowns, acrobats, and trained horses. "I say!" exclaimed Rosher suddenly, "d'you know what the time is? It's close on nine o'clock!" "By jingo!" answered Jack, "we must do a bolt."

"Just don't you say anything about it, Allie; we aren't even now, and we sha'n't be, very soon. Besides, it's worth all the rest to have the fun of getting the inside track of her. Good-by till breakfast-time!" And he vanished around the corner of the house. Late October had come, and already the snow-line was creeping down the mountain sides towards the little town in the cañon.

His white chest was like a snowdrift, and offered a fine mark for the German rifles. A bullet or two sang whiningly past his gayly up-flung head. A hundred voices from the Here-We-Come trenches hailed the advancing dog. "Why, it's Bruce!" cried Mahan in glad welcome. "I might 'a' known he or another of the collies would be along. I might 'a' known it, when the telephones went out of commission.

She pointed out in the new drawings the practical advantages of kitchen and pantry; the simple but thorough ventilation, the deep closets, till her friend fairly laughed at her. "And you say you're not domestic!" "I'm a domestic architect, if you like," said Isabel; "but not a domestic servant. I'll remember what you say about those windows it's a good idea," and she made a careful note of Mrs.

Then we will lie up till it's dark, up with the grapnel, and steal quietly down the river, keeping pretty close to the trees, till we are about opposite the enemy, and then we'll make a mistake." "Make a mistake?" said Rodd. "I don't understand you." "Well, sir, I aren't done yet.

"I am not," was the short answer. "I am going to walk the marsh till four o'clock." "You haven't the strength. You can't walk fast enough to keep from freezing. You'll have to keep it up eight hours. You're cold and wet and exhausted. It's certain death if you stay. That water is rising fast. In ten minutes more it will be dangerous to try it. Will you come with me?"

I can understand what he says. 'How simply horrible! 'Very convenient, I should say. 'If there's anything I detest, it's an Americanized Italian and here in Valedolmo of all places, where you have a right to demand something unique and romantic and picturesque and real. It's too bad of Gustavo! I shall never place any faith in his judgment again.

The great thing is to have your piano, Miss Phyllis. I'm coming up to-morrow morning to see if it's got here in good condition." "That's some compensation," said the girl ironically; and she added, with the kind of repellent lure with which women know how to leave men the responsibility of any reciprocal approach, "I don't know whether it won't need tuning first."