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Frankness had served Garth in good stead before this; and finally he told her the plain truth in such terms that she could understand. "This feeling Mabyn has for her," he insisted in the end, "is only a passing one. If we can get her out of his sight all will go on as before." Rina nodded. Her inscrutable face softened a little, he thought. "I on'erstan' now," she said quietly.
"You got hair grow on your chin, too? That is fonny thing. Ot'er day I watch the curly-head one scrape his face. He not see me. What for you want scrape your face?" Sam blushed. "Oh, it looks like a hobo if you don't," he stammered. She repeated the word with a comical face. "What is hobo?" "Oh, a tramp, a loafer, a bum." "I on'erstan'," she said. "We got hoboes, too.
After a brief conversation, Ko-sing turned to the strangers, and said "Ho! Kin speek English, me can. What you want?" "We want to look at your diggings," answered Ned. "We are going to turn the river here, if we can; and if you and your companions choose to join us, we will give you good wages." "Kin speek, but not fery well kin on'erstan'. Work, work you say, an' pay we?"
"You on'erstan' now!" "You fool!" cried Ambrose. "If you fire on the police you'll be wiped clean off the earth! The whole power of the government will descend on your head! There won't be a single Kakisa left to tell the story of what happened!" Watusk's face turned ugly. His eyes bolted. "Shut up!" he snarled, "or I gag you."
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