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Now if we was down in the foot-hills we'd be warmer, hey? Look thar!" He pointed down the ravine, and I saw a great white arc of light extending up into the steely sky. "The forest fire?" "Yep, she's burnin' some. But you oughter seen it last night. Not thet it ain't worth seein' jest now. Come along with me." He led me where the ravine opened wide. I felt, rather than saw, a steep slope beneath.
'Twould be pretty hard for me to change my clothes," she added, with a laugh, "seein' that there probably ain't anything but men's clothes in the place." Then, with a sigh, "Poor fellers, they won't need 'em any more." "That's so. And they were all alive and hearty this mornin'. It's an awful thing for Luther. Has he told anything yit 'bout how it come to happen?" "Yes, a little.
I ain't sayin', Lew, that you haven't more agin him than me, but I do say, let me in on it with you. He always has a gang of redskins with him; he's afraid to travel alone, else you'd had him long ago. Two of us'll have more chance to get him. Let me go with you. When it comes to a finish, I'll stand aside while you give it to him. I'd enjoy seein' you cut him from shoulder to hip.
Peagrum, that's my name, fust shop round the corner as you go into Silver Street, plumber and sanitry hengineer, gas-fittin' and hartistic decorating, bell-'anging in all its branches. I received instructions from Mr. Jones that I was to look into a little matter o' leakage in the back-kitchen sink; also to see what taps, if hany, required seein' to, and gen'ally to put things straight like.
"Half a dozen Indians happened along, an' I hired 'em," explained Duggan. "Thought I might as well make it big enough, Johnny, seein' I had plenty of help. Sometimes I snore pretty loud, an' " "There's smoke coming out of it," cried Keith. "Kept one of the Indians," chuckled Duggan. "Fine cook, an' a sassy-lookin' little squaw she is, Johnny.
The doctor shook his head one night when he come to see the Old Man; we knew what that meant. I went out-doors, I couldn't stand it in the room there, with the Old Man seein' 'nd talkin' about things that the fever made him see.
"If you 'ad, you'd 'ave known you couldn't cross the line without seein' it." Here was another perplexing element in the skipper's conduct. That Iris was a stowaway was forgotten. She was treated with the attention and ceremony due to the owner's niece.
"Many thanks, Misther Moylan," replied Jerry, assuming a gravity which he could scarcely maintain, "remember that you don't forget your promise. I'm goin' over to get the sacks from Misther John; an' by the way, aren't you goin' out to-day to shoot wid Misther M'Carthy?" "Well, I declare, I believe I am; I know the mountains well, an' I'm fond of seein' fun, or of hearin' of it, any way."
But it was a stranger a young man with a star on his coat. "Sam got 'em, Sheriff," he said, "they're comin' now. Must I bring the man in here?" "No. Keep him out there. This fellow's still seein' red." "Hit?" "Ear. That's all." "Well, he left his mark on that devil, all right!" The young man went out. Still the sheriff held the dog's collar. Still through the glass windows the crowd stared in.
Miss Hampton's idea is to shelve the matrimony proposition and begin by seein' if they can qualify as friends. She shows him how they'd never really seen enough of each other to know if they had any common tastes. "So I am to go with her to a few concerts, art exhibits, lectures, and so on," says he, "while she has consented to try a week-end yachting cruise with me.
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