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Allie was dimly aware of moving forms ahead and across the street. Once, fearfully, she looked back, to see if they were followed. The cowboy halted, tottering against a house, He seemed pale and smiling. "Run Allie!" he whispered. "No no no!" she replied, clinging to him. "You're shot! ... Oh, Larry come on!" His head fell back hard against the wood and his body, sagging, lodged there.
Talking steadily, as they always did when together, she and Susan went upstairs, and Susan was loaned a short skirt, and a cap that made her prettier than ever. The house was old, there was a hint of sagging here and there, in the worn floors, the bedrooms were plainly furnished, almost bare.
"What's the matter? Where's it gone? And out of all that dirt!" Bruce shook his head; his voice was barely audible: "I don't know." The sagging clouds were not heavier than his heart "I wish I did." Banule stood a moment in silent sympathy. "Guess you won't work any more to-day," he suggested. "Yes; tell Smaltz to start," Bruce answered dully. "I've got to save the mercury anyhow."
Again they neared the valley's rim, so that pine trees with every branch sagging under its load of snow, fringed the background. Like a pastel of a storm among hills that she had at home, thought Mrs. Singleton Corey irrelevantly. But was it Jack whom the man called Hank referred to? The thought chilled her. "What's he hidin' out for, Hank? Funny I never heard anything about it."
For an instant she was bewildered, then a beautiful instinct that had lain unused on some shelf of Billy's mind came to life and whispered to her what the trouble was. "Oh!" she cried softly, "Oh, I'm sorry I forgot!" She turned back to the little organ and began to play again. Up went the sagging old head, up the sagging old shoulders!
Nothing but white sand, as far as one could see, in all directions. Inside the house there were bare white walls, ceilings covered with manta, and sagging, as they always do; small windows set in deep embrasures, and adobe floors. Small and inconvenient rooms, opening one into another around two sides of the square.
Kingozi had said a week would be enough and Kingozi knew! She sighed deeply as she thought of the doom to which his own obstinacy had condemned that remarkable man. Her eyes wandered to where he sat in his canvas chair, superintending through the ever-efficient Cazi Moto the details of the camp. His shoulders were sagging forward wearily, and his face in repose fell into lines of infinite sadness.
He turned it over thoughtfully, straightened its sagging covers, opened and closed it several times, and finally spoke: "Thar's the answer to yer question, Norton," he said. "And that's only one of about a dozen hist'ries I've got on my old shelf.
I have been in far happier situations than that lying bent nearly double across the yard of an enemy's ship on a black night, but at the moment, so sincerely rejoiced was I to be off that sagging rope, I felt like humming a tune.
For Andy was but human, that he dreamed of these things; besides, does not the jumping through blazing hoops and over sagging bunting while one rides, whet insiduously one's appetite for the plaudits of the crowd? The reality was different. He was in Great Falls, but he had not ridden vaingloriously down Central Avenue surrounded by the Happy Family, and watched by the gaping populace.
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