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Kane about her to-morrow. The tiny whitewashed room where she slept that night was the one in which she had slept when a toddling baby, and Hetty wondered at herself as she looked round it thankfully. A patchwork quilt covered the bed, and a flower-pot in the one small window, and some coloured prints on the wall, were its only adornments.
"B'gosh! She's a stunner!" Kane, a good deal relieved at her departure and the success of his ministration, smiled benignly. The stranger again stared after the retreating carriage, looked around the shop, and even into the deserted surgery, and approached the counter confidentially. "Look yer, pardner. I kem straight from St.
As so often happens in life he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence. For one thing, he did not know what to do with his hands. He thrust one of them nervously over the counter and shook hands with Joe Kane. "How- de-do," he said. Joe Kane put his newspaper down and stared at him.
For rumor had been whispering during the past few days, and it was known that Kane Lawler had defied the powerful forces which were attempting to control the mediums of trade in the section; and there were many of the watchers who sent silent applause after the departing herd.
He had taken only several steps when a voice greeted him, coming from the interior of the cabin a man's voice, snarling, venomous: "You come another step, Kane Lawler, an' I'll bore you!" Lawler halted, facing the door. The door was closed, but a little slide in the upper part of it was open.
Thus they proceeded, amid tremendous difficulties, on scanty food bread-dust and a lump of tallow about the size of a walnut and tea when they could procure water. At length they found the loads heavier, and came to the sad conclusion that their energies were giving way. Nothing in view, "we were sorely disheartened," says Doctor Kane. No wonder!
"You and Art have done wonders all week, and I'll never be able to thank you enough for all the help you've given me. It's simply great to have such pals as you two! And mother'll be delighted to know that everything's going so swell. I had a letter from Doctor Kane to-day -guess I told you? He said the operation was very successful and she's doing finely." "Mighty glad to know it!"
A heartless, selfish hypochondriac! even her nieces will scarcely stay in the house with her. I think she would get you cheap at a thousand a year, Miss Kane; but you must be joking." "I am in earnest," responded Frances. "Please don't make it harder for me, Mr. Spens. I know what I am undertaking. Will you please tell your client that I can pay him his interest?
"Nonsense!" ejaculated Doctor Kane. "It will be a pleasure for me to do anything I can for your mother and you, my boy. Your father was one of the best friends I ever had, and some day I'll tell you how I came to owe him a debt which I shall never be able to repay. Just call on me if I can help out, won't you?"
'Shorty, she said, cold an' ca'm; 'you tell Kane to get out of jail and go to Antrim's cabin, and kill him!" Lawler had sat, grim and silent, listening to Shorty. Twice had Shorty seen his eyes quicken when Shorty had mentioned his mother, and again when he had spoken of Antrim's action in burning the Circle L buildings.
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