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I looks over at the Lieutenant and grins foolish. But he wouldn't be satisfied until Maggie had towed him out to view the remains. He's pink behind the ears when he comes back, too. "Please, Mister Inspector," says Maggie, "you'll not have us up this time, will yez?" "Bah!" says Cecil. "Seein' it's you," says I, "he won't.
Robert takes a look over by the window at Mallory, who wasn't seein' a thing but Sis and wasn't hearin' anything but what she was sayin' and she was sayin' a lot. "Is is that Skid?" says Mr. Robert. "Oh, come along now, Bob," says Dicky, pokin' him in the vest playful.
He considered a moment before he replied. "Well," he said, "I don't know as how I won't tell you, a seein' you're who yer are, and I am not likely to get anything out of the job. It was a rare toff who put us on to it. Silk hat, frock-coat, and all as natty as a new pin.
"Just as he stands?" demanded the old trapper, with a chuckle. "I ain't a-goin' to deliver the goods to yer door, ye know!" "No," laughed Kane, "just as he stands, right here!" "Well, seein' as it's you, I don't want no more'n what his pelt'ld fetch, an' the bounty on his nose," answered the trapper. "All right," said Kane.
"You must of been drunk an' seein' double, partner," drawled the answer. "Look here!" said the first man, "I'm willin' to take that any way you mean it!" "An' I'm willin'," said the other, "that you should take it any way you damn please." Everyone in the room was grave except Jim Silent and his three companions, who were smiling grimly.
'Ay; but here am I lyin' upo' my bed, slippin' easy awa. An' there was he The old man ceased. The sacred story was too sacred for speech. Robert sat with the New Testament open before him on the bed. 'The mair the words o' Jesus come into me, the doctor began again, 'the surer I am o' seein' my auld Brahmin frien', Robert. It's true I thought his religion not only began but ended inside him.
"What a pity it is," said Wilson, as the team crawled slowly along, "that we have no chance to take the number of a few of those self-same invaders from behind a tree or log; for I find the English blood beginning to stir within me." "Vot's to be gained by it," returned Black Jack, "seein as 'ow there's no use in cuttin a vizzen or scuttlin a nob, unless there's some svag at the end on it?
By rights I ought to give him to you, seein as how you done roped and branded me for a blattin' yearlin' the first throw; and you been out West just three days! You'll git along in this country." "I hope so," laughed Bartley. "Speaking of getting along, I plan to visit Senator Brown. How long will it take me to get there, riding the bay?"
Hows'ever, as I wos sayin', I've bin a'most all over the world I've smoked wi' the Turks, an' hobnobbled with John Chinaman, an' scrambled through the jungles of the Indies, an' gone aloft the Himalayas " "What, have you seen the Himalayas?" asked Jeffson, with a doubtful look. "How could I be among 'em without seein' of 'em?" replied Joe.
"It ain't often you have the pleasure of seein' an old friend, an' the excitement is a little too much for you. I know how it is," he added sympathetically. He was closely watching Garrison's face. Garrison mechanically agreed, wondering. "It's this way," began Crimmins, once the shelter of the pike was gained. "I'm Billy Crimmins' brother the chap who trains for Major Calvert.
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