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I'll be up to-night before dark, an' if I don't fetch you a letter it'll be because I can't persuade Collie to write." "Pard, if you bring me a letter I'll obey you I'll lie still I'll sleep I'll stand anything." "Ahuh! Then I'll fetch one," replied Wade, as he took the little book and deposited it in his pocket. "Good-by, now, an' think of your good news that come with the snow."
She had saved him from the horrible death of the Gila monster's poison and was now intent upon saving him from even worse fate at the hands of the murderous Apaches. He caught up her willing hand in an eager clasp. "Carmena! To have a girl like you for pal it's simply ripping!" "Pal?" she repeated the word after him, as if not quite certain of its meaning. "Oh, you mean pard.
He moved his hand as though to throw his memorandum pad on the desk, but instantly a stern voice ordered him to desist and the threatening revolver came closer. "Jest stay right thar, pard." The words were spoken in an exaggerated Western drawl. "My barker's mighty light in the trigger. I guess it don't take a hundred-weight to loose it.
So the young pard, wounded by the hunter's dart, chafes with rage in the forest, is angry with the surprise of the rankling steel in her side, and snarls and bites at her sister-cubs, and the leopardess, her spotted mother. Little Hetty tore and gnawed, and growled, so that I should not like to have been her fraternal cub, or her spotted dam or sire.
But I wasn't an' dyin' with your boots on is the next wust way to croak." "You've a chance to-to get over this," said Duane. "Shore. But I want to be correct about the boots an' say, pard, if I do go over, jest you remember thet I was appreciatin' of your kindness." Then he closed his eyes and seemed to sleep.
"Well, then, you're going to stick here and see he don't git no chance, while I go with our new pard. How's that, Lennon?" "Good enough," agreed Lennon. "Elsie and I will hunt up some tools," said Carmena and she hurried her foster-sister out into the store-rooms before Slade could voice an objection.
Upon the return down the slide the trader suddenly paused to point at the skull of a half-buried human skeleton. "Huh," he grunted. "Cripple Sim didn't have no pard. But look at the pick another prospector. Must 'a' stumbled on the mine. Lots of good it done him. See that hole? His pard plugged him through the head, streaked out, got lost, died. That's how I figger it." "Poor chap!"
"If you're the thafe, begorra, I'll find the rope, tie the knot, and give the first pull." The laugh which followed this repartee showed that the men were in excellent humour, and enjoying the whole proceedings. "Tim Slater, I spot you," continued Pritchen. "Is it a go?" "Very well, pard, ye may bank on me," came the reply. "Jim, how does your pulse beat?" and Pritchen threw a wink at Perdue.
Bending over the carnations, she examined the gorgeous hues, toyed with their fragile stems, and then, glancing shyly over her shoulder like a startled fawn half expectant of hounds and hunter, she glided rapidly to an artificial mound crowned with a mouldering mossy plaster image of Ariadne and her pard, and stood surveying her new domain.
All right, though nothing's happened." "My! have I been asleep?" "Oh, partly, partly. Nearly time for us to be moving, pard. What'll we do with what little swag we've got left?" "I don't know leave it here as we've always done, I reckon. No use to take it away till we start south. Six hundred and fifty in silver's something to carry." "Well all right it won't matter to come here once more."
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