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Why, they've got enough chalked down against him now to make up a hundred years' sentence, and he's travellin' back and forth there as innercent of what they're tryin' to do as is the babe unborn." "Can they do any such infernal thing as that in law?" demanded the Cap'n. "Blamed if I know. But I never see northin' yet they couldn't do in law, if they see you comin' and got the bind on you."
You've just escaped by luck, chance, and the skin of your teeth from a cuss that northin' is too low for him to lay his hand to. What do you think of a man that, in order to make trouble and disgrace for his neighbors, will dress up in his dead wife's clothes and snoop around back doors and write anonymous letters to confidin' wimmen?" "My Lawd!" gasped the widow. "We caught him at it!
And we'll come back by team from some place down the line, and lay low either round your premises or mine and ketch that infernal, frowzle-headed sister of Jim the Penman by the hind leg and snap her blasted head off." "What be you goin' to tell the wimmen?" "Tell 'em northin'." "There'll be the devil to pay. They'll think we're elopin'." "Well, let 'em think," said Hiram, stubbornly.
You ain't northin' else, when it comes to law. I'm a hard man when I'm madded, Crymble, and if I start in to keelhaul you for disobeyin' orders you'll " The Cap'n did not complete the sentence, but he bent such a look on the man in the chair that he trembled through all his frail length. "I wisht I could have stayed dead," whimpered Mr. Crymble, thoroughly spirit-broken.
The Cap'n was "leaving" the grimy pages of a log-book. He paused over certain entries, and his face darkened. There was no more vindictiveness in his expression. It was regret and a sort of vague worry. "What is it, Aaron?" asked his wife, with wistful apprehensiveness. "Northin'," he growled. "But I know it's something," she insisted, "and I'm always ready to share your burdens."
"It ain't northin' you'll be proud of." "I'll run along, I guess!" broke in the old showman. "It may be something " "It ain't," snapped the Cap'n. "It's only about them timberlands that my wife owned with her brother, Colonel Gideon Ward. Estate wasn't divided when the old man Ward died, and since we've been married I've had power of attorney from my wife to represent her."
"You're the first seafarin' man I know of that left your own kind to take sides with a land-pirut." "You ain't seafarin' no more," retorted Mr. Butts, insolently. "Talk to me of bein' seafarin' with that crowd of jays you've got round you! You ain't northin' but moss-backs and bunko-men." Cap'n Sproul glanced over his shoulder at the men of Smyrna and groaned under his breath.
My rheumaticks is a good deal better at this writin', and my mind ain't so much occupied by other matters as it has been for a week or so. When you come home don't talk northin' but business, jest as you natch'ally would to a brother-in-law and an equal pardner. That advice don't cost northin', but it's vallyble."
"Since I got out of the circus business I've been tryin' to do business with less lyin', but it doesn't seem to work," mourned Hiram. "Maybe what's good for the circus business is good for all kinds. Seems to be that way! Well, when you'd told her the straight truth and had been as square as you could, what did you say to her when she flared up?" "Northin'," answered the Cap'n.
"I don't understand northin' about it," said Hiram, plaintively. "But whatever it is, it has put me in a devil of a fix." "If you're havin' any more trouble to your house than I'm havin' over to mine, then you've somethin' that I don't begrudge you none," added the Cap'n, gloomily. "Woman left it," related Hiram. "It was in the edge of the evenin', and I hadn't come in from the barn.