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"Oh, I'll consent, all right, and I reckon, ma'am, it's mighty good of you to treat me so white. I'll sure try to please you." Webb thumped him on the back. "Now, you're shouting. We want you to be one of us, young man." Once more that happy, wireless message of eyes followed by O'Connor's assent. "That's what I want myself, seh." Bucky found a surprise waiting for him at the stables.
He might, and probably would, go through life peaceably enough, though he was, potentially, as dangerous as a rattlesnake. "I reckon you could eat," he remarked, and Louisiana agreed. "I reckon I can," he said. "And my old hoss can wrastle a bag of oats, too. He's got a ride in front of him and he'd appreciate a chance to rest and limber up." "You'll stay the night?" "No, thanks, seh!
An' Cun'l Chahmb'lin he got on his hoss an' rode away wid de urr gent'mens, lookin' like he did de day befo' when all de people laughed at 'im. "I b'lieve ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin wan' to shoot Marse Chan, anyway! "We come on home to breakfast, I totin' de box wid de pistils befo' me on de roan. Would you b'lieve me, seh, Marse Chan he nuver said a wud 'bout it to ole marster or nobody.
Deny it, of course, then lie low and give the public time to forget it." "Do you mean that I should withdraw from the senatorial race?" "That's entirely as you please, colonel, but I'm afraid you'll find your support will slip away from you." "Do you mean that YOU won't support me, seh?" Ridgway locked his hands behind his head and leaned back in his chair. "We've got to face facts, colonel.
He wore clay-flecked cavalry boots, and was six feet five if an inch, so that Stephen's six seemed insignificant beside him. "Captain," he said, taking in Stephen's rank, "so we won't qua'l as to who's host heah. One thing's suah," he added, with a twinkle, "I've been heah longest. Seems like ten yeahs since I saw the wife and children down in the Palmetto State. I can't offer you a dinner, seh.
For both of these men belonged to the old West whose word is as good as its bond, that West which will go the limit for a cause once under taken without any thought of retreat, regardless of the odds or the letter of the law. Though they had never met before, each knew at a glance the manner of man the other was. "All right, seh. If you want me I reckon I'm here large as life," the ranger said,
They're going to rustle us some white men's clothes, too, but we cayn't wear them till we get out of town on account of showing our handsome faces." "What about horses?" "Denver is rustling some for us. Y'u better be scribbling your billy-doo to the girl y'u leave behind y'u, seh." "Haven't y'u got one to scribble?" Bannister retorted. "Seems to me y'u better get busy, too."
You see! de fust t'ing dey gwine ass you when you come at Gran' Point' 'Is Mistoo Wallis biggin to grind? Well, seh, like I tell you, yeh de sugah-house, an' dah de road. Dat road fetch you at Gran' Point'." An hour later the stranger, quite alone, had left behind him the broad smooth road, between rustling walls of sugar-cane, that had brought him through Belle Alliance plantation.
Fair as eagerly as if he had been gone three days. The train stood so long that he went forward to ask what the delay signified and saw the four commercial travelers walking away with their hand-bags. The porter was busy about the door. "Big smash-up of freight-cyars in de yard; yass, seh.
I've got this whole town beat on peonies and pumpkins. Being as it's a fat man's pleasure to cheer people up, I dropped in to bring you a few peonies and to say that, considering the few well-selected words you spoke to Pete Leddy on this town's behalf, I'm prepared to vote for you for anything from coroner to president, seh!"
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