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I couldn't. There's enough sadness now in those Scotch blue eyes. Damned if I'll add more!" He saw Mary Hope come from the shack, pause a minute on the doorstep, then walk out to where her horse was tied to the post. He lifted the reins, pricked his horse gently with the spurs and galloped away to Jumpoff, singing no more.
"And there wasn't any name on the books to show who bought 'em. Maybe she thinks " "I don't care what she thinks! It's the way she acts that counts. Everybody in Jumpoff has got invitations to her picnic and dance. They say it's to pay us for the piano and they think she's doing some wonderful stunt. And we're left out in the cold!"
But I'll tell you this: The only things that haven't changed, on the Devil's Tooth, are Riley and the pintos. And even they let you drive 'em to Jumpoff and back last spring without busting things up. They're getting old, I guess. Maybe we're all getting old. Still, Rosa and Subrosa are only ten past, and I haven't had a birthday for years
"Rotten bunch of rough-necks," he summed up the men of Black Rim and of Jumpoff. "And they'll blame the Devil's Tooth outfit they'll say the Lorrigans did it. Oh, well heck!"
Wake up, Tom, and tell us how long it will take to put up the schoolhouse? Lance is going to give the dance and there won't be so much as a soggy chocolate cake accepted from the Rimmers. What will you do, Lance? Put up a notice in Jumpoff?" "Surely! A mysteriously worded affair, telling little and saying much. Music and refresh no, by heck, that sounds too wet and not solid enough.
Yet no invitation came to the Devil's Tooth ranch, not a word was said to them by Mary Hope, not a hint that they were expected, or would be welcome. Belle met Mary Hope in the trail one day, just a week before the Fourth. Mary Hope was riding home from school; Belle was driving out from Jumpoff.
I've a horse and my riding clothes in Jumpoff, and I must go for them and come home properly on horseback to-morrow! It's because of the lie I told my mother, so that I could come to the dance with the Kennedys. Set me down here anywhere, Lance Lorrigan, and let me walk until the Kennedys overtake me! They'll be coming soon, now as soon as Bill Kennedy gets licket sober.
Last Tuesday, Mary Hope had not understood just why he had ridden on ahead of her for two miles she could see the small dust cloud kicked up by his horse on the Jumpoff trail, so there could be no mistake when he knew perfectly well that she must ride that way, when he could not have failed to see her horse saddled and waiting at the door.
Well, I came to Jumpoff because I meant to jump. Yes, I'll marry you and the Lord have mercy on you, Tom Lorrigan, if I live to regret it." "Amen. Same to you," grinned Tom. "It's an even break, anyway. They don't claim I'm sprouting wings. They say I've got split hoofs in my boots instead of feet, and wear my ears pointed at the top. But but no girl has got any loop on me.
In their minds loomed the fact that Lorrigan money had bought books for the school, and that Tom Lorrigan himself had paid close to four hundred dollars for the piano. They heard that invitations were being sent broadcast, that a crowd was coming from Pocatello, from Lava, from Jumpoff invited to come and spend a day and night in merry-making.
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