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Brasher was standing on the threshold separating both rooms and was pointing to the porthole in which was fixed a circular fan. Brasher continued: "We came here about eight o'clock, or mebbe a quarter after. Mr. Miller used to get up very early. When he wasn't down for breakfast this mornin' and the people down stairs knowin' he had an appointment with Judge Higginbotham, they came up and called.
He continued in a monotonous voice, "I thought mebbe yeh got keeled over. There 's been thunder t' pay t'-day. I was worryin' about it a good deal." The youth still lamented. "Oh, Jim oh, Jim oh, Jim " "Yeh know," said the tall soldier, "I was out there." He made a careful gesture. "An', Lord, what a circus! An', b'jiminey, I got shot I got shot. Yes, b'jiminey, I got shot."
"Where's Parlay?" Grief shouted. "Up tree... Three of his Kanakas same tree. Narii and one Kanaka'nother tree... My tree blow to hell, then I come on board." "Where's the pearls?" "Up tree along Parlay. Mebbe Narii get them pearl yet." In the ear of one after another Grief passed on Tai-Hotauri's story. Captain Warfield was particularly incensed, and they could see him grinding his teeth.
Still, that would not prevent him from saying that he had some good news for the man he sought. "How far away from the Landing does he live, Mr. Stallings?" he asked, promptly. "Reckons as how it air all o' fo' mile, sah. An' in the present disturbed condition o' the country, mebbe, sah, it would be wise foh you to defer yuh visit thah to mawnin'," came the reply.
Yer jest put on them dry clothes as quick as ever yer can, or mebbe ye'll lose another friend before long". "It shall be done as you say, beloved Aunt Esther", said he, rising and bowing profoundly, as she left the room. Having obeyed the worthy woman's injunction, he drew the easy-chair to the fire, leaned his head back and spent the next half hour hovering between consciousness and dreamland.
'Peared a bigger roar than any flood before. As it happened, I was alone, an' it took time to git the hosses up. If there'd been an Indian with me or even Joel mebbe " His voice quavered slightly, broke, and then he resumed. "Even when I got the hosses over to the landin' it wasn't too late if only some one had heerd me an' come down. I yelled an' shot. Nobody heerd. The river was risin' fast.
"Mebbe not, Miss Fenshawe, an' mebbe you've on'y heard half a yarn, if you'll pardon my way of puttin' it. Anyway, the Baron is in a mighty hurry to be off; an' isn't it plain enough that he doesn't want to be here when Mr. Royson comes back? You mark my words, Miss. You'll hear something that'll surprise you when our second mate heaves in sight."
"How do you know I'm in the Government employ?" "You are, I reckon." "Mebbe I am." "You're a night-watchman." "Well, suppose I am." "Don't you fellows get a chance for pickings?" "Not much."
Cullom: "I told David that I was ever so much obliged to him, but I didn't want a dimun' more'n a cat wanted a flag, an' I thought it was jest throwin' away money. But he would have it said I c'd sell it an' keep out the poorhouse some day, mebbe." David had not made much change in his usual raiment, but he was shaved to the blood, and his round red face shone with soap and satisfaction.
You wanted it to go on, and yet you didn't want it. It was pretty, but you felt as if something was going to snap inside of you." "When did you hear it, my son?" "Twice last night and and I guess it was Sunday the other time. I don't know, for there hasn't been no Sunday up here since mother went away has there?" "Mebbe not."
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