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And then there was the time when the trainmen put off a scared and sick cripple, who lay in the depot waiting-room with a ring of sympathetic incompetents around him until Doc Simms could help him. He touched our hearts, and we shelled out enough to send him on a hundred miles to his people.

She had prepared a lunch for him, placing it in a little leather bag with a strap attached for fastening the package over his shoulder. "Please say nothing about what I have told you," urged Tad. "I don't want them to know we understand their plans. That is the only way Mr. Simms will be able to catch them." "Of course, I shall not mention it. Good-bye and good luck."

It occurred to Cochrane that Alicia would probably find recompense for her humiliation and pain in the little-boy penitence exactly as temporary as any other little-boy emotion when she and Johnny Simms were alone together. The ship had come down close to the sunset-line of the planet. Away to the west there was the glint of blue sea. Dusk was already descending here.

I ain't the first man to come trailin' in with news of a strike. An' I had nothin' to show for it. Not even a color of gold. Nothin' but the word of a dead Aleut, my own jedgment, an' my own sight of an island I never landed on. Matter of fact, Honest Simms was the only one who didn't laff at me outright. It was on'y his bad luck made him try a chance at gold 'stead of keepin' after pelts.

Ef you come back you gotta stand trial fer that see?" "You better duck, mister," advised Red Sanders; "they'll hang you sure." Divine went white. To face trial before two such men as Simms and Ward meant death, of that he was positive. To flee into the forest meant death, almost equally certain, and much more horrible. The man went to his knees, lifting supplicating hands to the mate.

The woman was Mary Simms, though without any trace of all her former simple-minded airs; Mary Simms, no longer in her humble attire, but flaunting in all the finery of overdone fashion. She wore an air of reckless joyousness in her face; and yet, spite of that, I pitied her. It was clear she had fallen on the evil ways of bettered fortunebettered, alas! for the worse.

Not a trace had one of them found of the missing Philip Simms. The rancher said nothing when told that they had failed. He strode away to his tent and they saw him no more for hours. They had just gathered about the table for the evening meal, all unusually silent, when Ned Rector, glancing about, made a sudden discovery. "Where's Tad?" he demanded.

"'Peter Peter piped a pick " began Jones, then he laughed. "You can't say it," said Simms, cocking a wise eyebrow. "You bet I can," said the patient. "'Peter Piper pucked a pick'" "Nerve exhaustion," said Simms. "Say, Doc," cut in Jones, beginning to feel slight alarm. "What are you getting at, you're beginning to make me feel frightened, there's not anything really wrong with me, is there?"

When she had recovered her equanimity she hastened to the head of the cabin companionway and called aloud for help. Instantly Skipper Simms and First Officer Ward rushed on deck, each carrying a revolver in readiness for the conflict with their crew that these two worthies were always expecting. Barbara pointed out the still form of Theriere, quickly explaining what had occurred.

It invested her with a shade of inscrutable, prescient sorrow, as of old unhappy far-off things. He hadn't the faintest idea of Nancy Simms, a creature utterly foreign to his experience. And because she did not love him, Anne Champneys never spoke of that old self, never confided in him. He did not know her as she had been, he only knew her as she was now.