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He took a handful of gold pieces from his pocket and placed them on the table in a little pile. "This is all I have, but Mrs. Thomas isn't in a position to pay right now, so heah is yo' first month's wages in advance." The three looked at him and gulped. If ever three men were ashamed, they appeared to be. The old cow-puncher pushed the pile back to The Kid. "We ain't takin' it," he mumbled.
He parted his red beard and looked up to the ceiling. "Five thousand is a considerable pile, all in hard cash. But mostly they hunt for this Andrew Lanning a dozen at a time. Well, you divide five thousand by ten, and you've got only five hundred left. That ain't enough to tempt a man to give up Lanning so bad as all that."
They approached the table specially devoted to the use of the wire. Everything was in order the pile on the box containing it, as well as all the apparatus. "Who came here the last time?" asked the engineer. "I did, captain," answered Ayrton. "And that was " "Four days ago." "Ah! a note!" cried Herbert, pointing to a paper lying on the table. On this paper were written these words in English:
Just inside the open end of the oven the floor was scooped out so as to make a hole that would hold a bucket or two of water. These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. When a patient required a bath, a fire was built near the oven and a pile of stones put upon it. The cavity at the front was then filled with water.
"My dear, my dear, I have grown to think that any way is a good way," she murmured, her eyes on the blackened pile that had once been Chericoke. "It is not right," he went on; "it is not fair. You cannot marry me you must not." Again the humour quivered on the girl's lips. "I don't like to seem too urgent," she returned, "but will you tell me why?" "Why?" he repeated bitterly.
Jem modestly retired whilst they looked at his mats; but in a minute or two his mistress beckoned to him, and when he came into the middle of the circle, he saw that his pile of mats had disappeared. "Well," said the lady, smiling, "what do you see that makes you look so surprised?" "That all my mats are gone," said Jem; "but you are very welcome."
It was the sort of storm Keith liked. The thunder was the rumble of a million giant cartwheels rolling overhead. Inside the bungalow it was growing dark as though evening had come. He dropped on his knees before the pile of dry fuel in the fireplace and struck a match.
She had seen him turn white and bite his lip, sometimes, and more than once he had left her abruptly, and had not come back again for several days. But he had never forgotten his promise, in any word or deed since he had given it. It is a dangerous thing to pile up a mountain of massive reality from which to look out upon the fading beauty of a fleeting illusion.
See, Bill," he finished eloquently, "it weren't your first race." "I know, I know," said Garrison grimly. "Cut it out. You don't understand, and it's no good talking. When you have reached the top of the pile, Red, you'll travel with as fast a mob as I did. But I never threw a race in my life. That's on the level.
He went into a religious publisher's in Danvers Street with that object, and while engaged in a back part of the shop in looking over a pile of Catholic works, which, to the religious public, had inferior attractions to the glittering volumes, Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic, which had possession of the windows and principal table, he heard the shop-door open, and, on looking round, saw a familiar face.
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