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We crept in under Jim's bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual.
"I was just saying that this is no life for a fellow to lead batting 'round the way I do; then Jim said I mean I said I needed a wife, a beautiful wife. I never saw a girl beautiful enough to suit me before, and he said " Jim's relief came as an explosion. "There! That's English. You spoke a mouthful that time, Bob, for she certainly is a beauty bright.
The next thing the Major knew, he was covered by Jim's gun listening to his death sentence. "Major," began Captain Jim, "right here is where you cash in. Played me for a big fool long enough.
There was hardly need for this injunction, for in the kitchen Adah was regarded as far superior to those who would have trampled her down, and her presence among the servants was not without its influence, softening Jim's rough, loud ways, and making both Dixson and Pamelia more careful of their words and manners when she was with them.
Then the scene vanished from before Jim's eyes, and he knew that his own future was about to be presented to him. He saw himself once more back on board the Blanco Encalada, and knew that that ship, together with another Chilian vessel, was engaged in a fierce fight with a Peruvian ironclad, the name of which was hidden from him.
Jim's presence, his concerned voice and sympathetic eyes, only vaguely added to her distress. She was frightened now, terrified at the recurring paroxysms of pain; she recoiled from the breezy matter-of-factness of the doctor and the nurse; the elaborate preparations for the crisis offended every delicate instinct of her nature.
We've some passengers who must get to a certain place at a particular time, and they can't do it unless we can land 'em before daylight to-morrow. Say four hundred!" "That sloop isn't for sale." "Wouldn't you take five hundred for her?" "No; nor a thousand!" Jim's jaws came together. Back in his brain was forming a suspicion of these fishermen who raised their bid so glibly.
At the same moment Clark looked up. "Hi, Jim" he commanded. "C'mon over and help us with this bottle. I guess there's not much left, but there's one all around." Nancy, the man from Savannah, Marylyn Wade, and Joe Ewing were lolling and laughing in the doorway. Nancy caught Jim's eye and winked at him humorously.
"You came into the army to do just as I tell you, and you'll do it. Silence in the ranks," commanded Si. "Humphreys, stand next to Mackall. Scruggs, stand behind Humphreys." "Why do you put one man behind another?" queried Monty Scruggs. "I don't think that's right. Jim's big head'll be forever in my way, so's I can't see anything. Why don't you put us out in one line, like a class in school?
Jim's word was all I ever wanted from him all I ever asked for." "But perhaps Gary Warden's business methods are different?" "I talked that over with Lefingwell when he sold out to Warden. Jim said he'd already mentioned our agreement to Warden and that Warden had agreed to carry it out." "But suppose Warden has changed his mind?" Lawler spoke seriously.
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