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He was allowed no opportunity of doing so, for Bill frequently reminded him of her, and as a result it was not long before he found a place for his charge, in the home of a leading merchant. Arrangements made, Bill went in search of the mail-carrier. Petersen was drinking with two friends at the bar of the Last Chance, and he pressed his late passenger to join them.
Estelle Clayton came out of the store. "Supper's all ready for you, Mr. Mail-Carrier. Come right in and sit down." "I'm a-coming now watch me," he replied, with intent to be funny. The girls accompanied him into the little living-room. "Oh, my, don't some folks live genteel? See the canned peaches!" "And the canned lobster!" "And the hot biscuit!"
Tilden, you have heard the testimony of the mail-carrier; now be good enough to tell the jury where you were on the night of the robbery how many miles from this mail-sack?" and he waved his hand contemptuously toward the bag. It was probably the first time in all his life that Bud had heard any man dignify his personality with any such title.
There's nothing like a warm shack, with a cache full of grub, when the peaks smoke and the black snow-clouds roar down the gulch. Other "mushers" were ahead of us at the road-house, freighters from Kougarok, an outfit from Teller going after booze, the mail-carrier, and, who do you reckon? Annie Black. First time I had seen her since she was run out of Dawson for claim jumping.
Will you have a few peaches to eat on the way? I always give the mail-carrier some of my peaches to eat." Miss Carryl lifted a big, blue china bowl full of superb, white, rare-ripe peaches, and, coming to the veranda's edge, motioned the Messenger to open the saddlebags. Into it she poured a number of peaches. "They are perfectly ripe," she said; "I hope you will like them." "Thank'y, ma'am."
But the promised help came at last, in the shape of the mail-carrier's plunger, her trim little mast catching his eyes, shining white and bare out of the dusk. Directly he heard the voices of the mail-carrier and another. "Where be ye? Who be ye?" "Right here, under yer bow. Joe Chillis, you bet your life!" "Waal, come aboard here, mighty quick. Make fast. Mind your boat; don't let her strike us.
Big Olaf is in town. He came up from Circle City last month. He is one of the most terrible dog-mushers in the country, and if he enters he will be your most dangerous man. Arizona Bill is another. He's been a professional freighter and mail-carrier for years. It he goes in, interest will be centred on him and Big Olaf." "And you intend me to come along as a sort of dark horse." "Exactly.
With Lieutenant-Governor Gore, formerly a soldier in Guernsey, our hero was on intimate terms. When the grind of duty let him, he would travel "the worst road in the country fit only for an Indian mail-carrier in order to mix in the society of York." He periodically returned these hospitalities by a grand ball at Niagara always the event of the season.
Not because he ever heard or told any gossip at Duncan Polite's, but Coonie could never forget a certain dark night when the mail bag was lost and the drunken mail-carrier in danger of finding himself behind prison bars, a night when Duncan Polite had toiled over the hills through mud and rain, and had rescued him.
"Then you heard him speak?" Same tone as if trying his best to encourage the witness in his statements. "No." This was said with some positiveness. The mail-carrier evidently intended to tell the truth. Cartwright turned quickly with a snarl like that of a dog suddenly goaded into a fight. "How can you swear, then, that the prisoner made the assault?"
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