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This gate he opened half-way, standing in the aperture and looking up sullenly as the Roumis came down the narrow, slippery track which led to it. "Cebah el-kheir, ia Sidi Good day, sir," said Nevill, agreeably, in his best Arabic. "Ta' rafi el-a' riya? Do you speak Arabic?" The young man bowed, not yet conciliated. "Ach men sebba jit lhena, ia Sidi?
The old man's done for, this time, ez I allow spang in the innards. Ease me down and get off for yerselves, if so be ye can, im me jit " The wagging jaw dropped and the keen old eyes went dim and sightless. Dick's oath was more a sob than an imprecation; and now it was I who said: "Come on the living before the dead!" and so we made the well-nigh hopeless dash for the horses.
For the space of a minute the Mayor weighed his son's future as a corporation attorney against his own future as mayor of Sequoia and Henry lost. "It might be arranged, Colonel," he murmured in a low voice the voice of shame. "It is already arranged," the Colonel replied cheerfully. "Leave your jit at the front gate and drive home in Shirley's car. I'll arrange matters with her."
The first pure-bred, hot-blood stallions turned on the Kiowa range carried the Quarter Circle KT brand on their left shoulders. He wanted quality in his stock and spent thousands of dollars importing bulls and stallions to get it. When the automobile came it was the same. No jit for the erratic owner of the last big genuine cow-ranch on the Cimarron.
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