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No further talk passed between Joy and Smoke for an hour or so, though he noticed that for a time she and her father talked in low tones. "I know'm now," Shorty told Smoke. "He's old Louis Gastell, an' the real goods. That must be his kid. He come into this country so long ago they ain't nobody can recollect, an' he brought the girl with him, she only a baby.
"My Great Father in heaven has sent you to save me and to take me home. Do you know Him?" "A-ha-ha, me know'm. White man tell Injun long tam ago." "Missionary?" Jean asked. "A-ha-ha. Long black robe. Cross, all sam' dis," and Sam made the form of the symbol of salvation with his forefinger. Jean knew that he referred to some French missionary who had visited the country.
It was as if he were unaware of the threatened attack. All of which constituted a new thing in Long's experience. "Maybe you don't know who I am," he bullied. "Yep, I do," Billy answered airily. "Leave 'm alone, Charley," advised one of the young men who had crowded about them. "He's Bill Roberts, the fighter. You know'm. Big Bill." "I don't care if he's Jim Jeffries.
"Now, listen to me. That boy wouldn't mind putting his heel on your face if he thought it would bring him up a step. I know'm. Y'see that walking stick he's carrying? Well, compared to the yellow stripe that's in him, that cane is a lead pencil. He's a song tout, that's all he is." Then, more feverishly, as Terry tried to pull away: "Wait a minute. You're a decent girl.
But he laid one plump hand on her arm and kept it there, though she tried to shake him off. "Now, listen to me. That boy wouldn't mind grinding his heel on your face if he thought it would bring him up a step. I know'm. See that walking stick he's carrying? Well, compared to the yellow stripe that's in him, that cane is a Lead pencil. He's a song tout, that's all he is."
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