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At that instant Li Choo slid softly into the room, caught up the tray, poised it on his three fingers over his head and said: "Old Mazaline, he come. Be queeck!" They heard the heavy footsteps of Joel Mazarine coming into the hall-way just below. The old man, as though moved by some uncanny instinct, had come back from One Mile Spring by a roundabout trail.
He will not stop it. Eef he have the money, it is better sacré yes. Eef he not gif well, I will tell you, there is the other railway man he try to hurt, how would he like But I will tell you on the river. Maint'nant queeck, we go." Without a word Lygon took down another coat and put it on. Doing so he concealed a weapon quickly, as Dupont stooped to pick a coal for his pipe from the blaze.
"Come back now queeck beeg hole close by." With a great effort Cameron regained his self-control. "By Jove, you are right, Jerry," he said quietly. "We certainly can't take him now. But we must not lose him. Now listen to me quick. This passage opens on to the canyon about fifty yards farther down. Follow, and keep your eye on the Sioux. I shall watch here. Go!"
"Maybee," said Achille cheerfully, "you stan' some show not moche eef he sen' you out pret' queeck. Does small perdrix is yonge, an' dose duck. Maybee you is catch dem, maybee you is keel dem wit' bow an' arrow. Dat's not beeg chance. You mus' geev dose coureurs de bois de sleep w'en you arrive. Voil
He had bread and meat, bought in a hurry at the tail of the village while Bill receded down the road. As soon as he laid it bare, Bill growled. "T'row heem some, queeck," cried the Signor. Bill caught the loaf and settled down to it with an appetite. Trotter stared at him with a gape. "Well, blow me!" he said. "'Ave we come to feedin' the bloomin' dog before we feeds ourselves?
Mate," said Trego hurriedly, and, with his voice lowered, "Here are my papers get those boxes off the wagon, eef you please. I am supercargo for the owners. I hold the charter for these sheep. Queeck on deck with those boxes of the machinery." "Oh, cap'n!" called Harris, after he had taken a quick glance at the paper which Trego thrust before him, and Captain Riggs came out of the saloon.
The runner passed in through the gate and up the little gravel walk and began to ascend the steps. "Halt!" A quick sharp voice arrested him. "What do you want here?" From the side of the shack an orderly appeared, neat, trim and dandified in appearance, from his polished boots to his wide cowboy hat. "Beeg Chief," panted the runner. "Me see beeg Chief queeck."
Suddenly he threw his head up. "I'll make him send me out now," he asserted confidently. "How you mak' eet him?" "I'll talk turkey to him till he's so mad he can't see straight. Then maybe he'll send me out right away." "How you mak' eet him so mad?" inquired Picard, with mild curiosity. "Never you mind I'll do it." "Bâ oui," ruminated Picard, "He is get mad pret' queeck.
"I mak' it go fas'," and began to row swiftly, seeking the breeze of the open river in which to shake off the horde of stinging pests that had risen with the sun. "I come 'way queeck wit'out t'inkin' 'bout gun or skeeter net or not'in'. Runnion she's len' me dis coat, so mebbe I don' look so worse lak' I do jus' now, eh?" "How did you leave him? Is he badly injured?"
Why, what a lot of Sunday-go-to-meeting folks to be sure!" Tim laughed loudly. After which the quick tongue of Nicolle Terasse: "You want know? Tiens, be quiet; here he come. He cure you body and soul, ver' queeck yes." The crowd swayed and parted, and slowly, bare head uplifted, face looking to neither right nor left, the Faith Healer made his way to the door of the little house.
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