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An' whin he come erlong to be 'bout knee-high to a mewel, he 'gin to git powerful 'fraid ob ghosts, 'ca'se dat am sure a mighty ghostly location whut he lib' in, 'ca'se dey 's a grabeyard in de hollow, an' a buryin'-ground on de hill, an' a cemuntary in betwixt an' between, an' dey ain't nuffin' but trees nowhar excipt in de clearin' by de shanty an' down de hollow whar de pumpkin-patch am.
It had not been the first time the trapper had acknowledged the hide-out as his son. A week after Bailey was shot he had told Holcomb and Freme with them he knew his son's secret was safe; they, too, had helped the outcast more than once. Years ago this strange old man had come out of the forest into the valley below Big Shanty, settled there and, after some years, married.
"It is too late, Jacob, to think of starting to-day," said Hector. "Come home with us, and eat some food, and rest a bit." "No need of that, my son I have a lot of fish here in the canoe; and there is an old shanty on the island yonder, if it be still standing the Trapper's Fort I used to call it some years ago. We will go off to the island and look for it."
Portions of fish and plenty of bones were spread about upon the floor, but the littered shanty did not distress her newly found notions of cleanliness. Daddy might go away to the black place where they had taken the Canadian Indian, who had killed his squaw.
"But you haven't the slightest idea what Big Shanty Brook is like," he said with conviction "a superb wilderness, an unbroken forest. Imagine a " She raised her hand with a bored little laugh. "Now, Sam, dear, don't," she protested.
Lem had decided to reconnoiter for Scraggy. He was filled with a fear that she might be dead; for he had left her in the hut unconscious. He climbed the hill, and, rounding her shanty, drew nearer, and peeped into the window. A piece of bread lying on the table, and a few embers burning on the grate bolstered up his hope that he had not committed murder. He drew a sigh of relief.
In the vernacular of the grade, a gypo man's daughter, if she follows the outfit, is known as a gypo queen. Josepha Modock, then, had grown up in the camp of Pickhandle Modock, and in time had been known as a gypo queen, or shanty queen, and the prettiest one in the business at that. It was when the Salt Lake Road was being built across the Mohave Desert that the baby girl had been found.
"Collins!" "Well?" "What is going on in that wooden shanty?" The little man dropped his voice. "Germany lost two submarines in one day," he murmured. "The device which got them came from that little workshop of Worth's. The plans are probably there or on the premises somewhere." Granet groaned. "As a matter of fact I have been within a few yards of the thing," he said.
The square room, with its low, heavily beamed ceiling and walls of birch, stained to a rich sienna, glistening in fresh spar varnish; the fire licking up the throat of the wide chimney-piece built of rough boulders from the bed of Big Shanty; the floor laid with rare rugs; the easy chairs and shaded lights all gave to this living room a charm that none in the house of marble possessed.
"I'm quite certain about you, because your pistol is in my pocket," was the dry answer, and Tom chuckled. "You weren't quite smart enough when you slipped off your jacket." From the door of his shanty, Thurston called them, and Mattawa, thrusting his prisoner in, proceeded to mount guard close outside until Thurston reappeared to ask angrily: "What are you doing there?"
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