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You've no occasion t' be alarmed. I'm not in the vigilance service, you know. Thought I'd just saunter along and have a jaw with you, that's all." "Come right in, sir," said Nick, now holding the door wide open. "I got a few friends here; but they was jus' quittin' when you knocked." Kiddie followed him within the darkness.
Time you gets a collection o' choice flowers in your door-yard, you'll have 'bout the most desirable residence in the hull state of Wyoming. Ain't you satisfied? What's the matter?" "I'm just some worr'ed, Gid," Kiddie answered, flinging a leg over the arm of his chair. "My!" exclaimed Gideon. "What in creation 've you gotter worry about?" "Just the cabin," Kiddie answered dreamily.
And there ain't no mother in that house, because their mother died just when Sally was a kiddie, and they're all mothers and fathers to her." "William is it ?" "Now, hold on, Lucien; hold on. Don't bite on anything until you're sure you can swallow it. Say, she's a wonder, Sally is!
He was bolting his meal with great expedition. "Is the kiddie worse, Stella?" She looked at him with that in her tired eyes that went straight to his heart. "He is a little worse every day," she said. Tommy swore into his cup and asked no further. A few moments later he got up, gave her a brief kiss, and departed.
"It's all right," he announced on his return, a quarter of an hour later. "Nick's going to muster a gang of his pals, and they'll act as armed escort. It seems that the word of the coming of my outfit has already been passed along the trail, and that even the Indians have gotten wind of it." "Kiddie," said Isa Blagg, "you're makin' a all-fired mistake. Nick Undrell has jus' canoodled you.
She could scarcely believe the thing his words and voice said, but it was there to believe. She gave a little shiver and clung closer to him. "You care?" "Of course I care!" He released her enough to lift up her flushed little face, and bend down and kiss it. "You knew that a long time ago. Kiddie " It was just then that the call-bell rang.
If I hadn't, why, I'd have lost that anchor God Almighty flung out to me in my trouble. Next to my own little kiddie I love that boy. He's got into my heart good what's left of it. You see, he's white, and he's no folks. That means the State handing him over to the folks set to deal with the 'strays' of God's world. It means his being out of my life when I most need him. I couldn't stand for that.
The girls were generous. During the next two weeks, the back room of Shirley's Shop looked as if there had been a revolution in toyland. Dolls without heads, others without arms or legs, eyeless ones, big and little were strewn about the room, while doll carriages minus wheels, kiddie cars, battered and streaked, awaited the skillful hand of the old man.
"We'll make that old cat of a mother of his sing another song one of these days," she said. "You're a wonderful little kiddie, after all. You'll save the day! Trust you! You'll pull it off yet! Oh, I have been horrid, Ruth, this last fortnight. Really I have. I was so afraid we were ruined, and we would be if it wasn't for you. Wait a jiffy."
"It was the night I arrived. Don't you remember I came upon you hearing her say her prayers? in fact you were saying them with her. I liked you for doing that," she said simply. "Thank you," said Noel with equal simplicity. "I remember now. The kiddie said something about it being wicked to kill people, didn't she?" "Yes.
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