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I'm goin' to be a dee-tectiff, an' I'm shadderin' a murderer;" and he gasped and stammered: "But not you. I'm lookin' for another murderer." For the first time the watchers saw a faint smile touch the girl's lips. "What other murderer?" she asked. "Who has been murdered?"
"He allowed to me," said Dan'l thoughtfully, "that YOU was a poor critter that hadn't a single reason to show for livin': that the fool-killer had bin shadderin' you from your birth, and that you hadn't paid a cent profit on your father's original investment in ye, nor on the assessments he'd paid on ye ever since. He seems to be a cute feller arter all, and I'm rather sorry he's leavin'."
But I've allus a shanty at Petalumy, and mebbe when things is froze over and Jim gets back you'll come and see him for you ain't seen him at his best." "I suppose his wife and children go with him?" said Breeze. "No! He's agin it, and wants them to come later. But that's all right, for you see she kin go back to their own house at the Mission, now that the Vigilants are givin' up shadderin' it.
Collins had enjoyed the advantages accruing from even the rudiments of a liberal ed" "He's got summick to do with Gub'ment lately," said Price cunningly. "My 'pinion, he's shadderin' summedy." "He ain't a gurl o' that sort," interposed Bum hastily. "My 'pinion, he's a spieler. No more a detective nor I am." I returned to the group.
"That's the reason, Samson. I was kinder skeered ter go through this country in the open." Samson met his eye steadily, and said slowly: "I reckon, Jim, hit moughtn't be half es risky fer ye ter walk upstandin' along Misery, es ter go a-crouchin'. Ye thinks ye've been a shadderin' me. I knows jest whar ye've been all the time. Ye lies when ye talks 'bout passin' through.
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