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As I said, we had writ and writ and tried to find him, but didn't know but we should have to hunt round considerable, but wuz bound to not leave the islands till we'd seen him. But lo and behold! here he wuz, lookin' just as good and heavenly minded as ever. He wuz santerin' along apparently lost in deep thought or nearly lost.
"Why, no, Miss Lizzie, I haven't saw him to-day." Fluently came the "Miss Lizzie," for the Kid was known to be one who required rigid upholdment of the dignity of his fiancee. "I'm lookin' for 'm," said Liz, after the chaser had sputtered under her nose. "It's got to me that he says he'll take Annie Karlson to the dance. Let him. The pink-eyed white rat! I'm lookin' for 'm. You know me, Tommy.
It's gone on by a sure hand to the destination we ken of. Ye've managed well, Mr Brand, but I wish ye were back in London. He sucked at his pipe, and the shaggy brows were pulled so low as to hide the wary eyes. Then he proceeded to think aloud. 'Ye canna go back by Mallaig. I don't just understand why, but they're lookin' for you down that line.
"Al, I'm lookin' fer that ammunition to blow up," he said. "There was enough of it to blow the roof off the rancho." "Bill, surely the cowboys would get that stuff out the first thing," replied Alfred, anxiously. "I reckon so. But all the same, I'm worryin'. Mebbe there wasn't time. Supposin' thet powder went off as the boys was goin' fer it or carryin' it out! We'll know soon.
I'm lookin' ter hear th' whistle any minute, I am, an' I got a pal waitin' fer me in the yards up ter Buff'lo, wid the duds. When I get there 'n' get me clo's changed, mebbe I'll leave ye come back if me pal 'n' me thinks ye kin be trusted."
Aunt Maria's hearing was slightly defective, especially when she was nervously overwrought. "Yes. Aunt Maria, who is it?" "Hush, I don't know. He hasn't paid any open court to anybody, that I know of, but I've seen him lookin'." "At whom?" "At Ida Slome." "But she is younger than my mother was." "What difference do you s'pose that makes to a man. He'll like her all the better for that.
Barrett, he says, lookin' like th' meek puppy he is, 'an' you'll have t' look some place else for th' person that done it. But she wouldn't talk no longer jus' walked out, as mad as a hornet." "Well, well," mused Mrs. Radigan. "I wonder what 'twas all about. 'Criminal, she said, eh? That's funny!" She walked to the front of the office and peeked through the wicket.
"Enough's good as a feast," returned his hostess sententiously. "It'll be tay-time afore aught's long." "Mun I bide for tay?" inquired Ted, with his head on one side. "Ye can if ye've a mind," said Margaret, accommodatingly. "Ye can be lookin' round if ye like while I'm gettin' things ready."
"I've always been in on it, Dug. Took a hand at the first deal, the day of the race. If you're lookin' for trouble with Dave, you'll find it goes double." "Not able to play his own hand, eh?" "Not when you've got a six-shooter and he hasn't. Not after he has just been wounded by another gunman he cleaned up with his bare hands. You and yore friends are lookin' for things too easy." "Easy, hell!
"We found him, a big mouthed, shifty, kind of man, 'bout as cynical lookin' in the face as a black bass, and full of wind as a toad fish. I exchanged drinks for principles of socialism, and doin' so happened to display my roll. Murdock slipped away and made talk with a friend, then, when Heegan had left, he steers me out the back way into an alley.
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