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You can tell her from me that she's been duped as I was. She's mine not his. He came with that cock-and-bull story about the other woman. But she was dead I've found out since. She was dead and he knew it. He faked up the tale to suit himself. He wanted her the damn skunk wanted her and cheated cheated to get her." He stopped, checked by a terrible gurgle in the throat.
"We do not handle gold-filled cases." He put it down, and turned to go. Then he stopped. "Don't sell on the installment plan, either, I suppose?" The sneer in his voice was clearer than his anxiety. In his mind, he already knew the answer. "Sorry. No." He went out. So he had been right. That young skunk had paid a hundred dollars for a watch for Anna. To Rudolph it meant but one thing.
Still snarling in pain, she lifted one shaking arm and pointed a crooked forefinger at Waldstricker. "She won't always stay with ye, ye skunk ye!" Then she staggered away, Helen and Ebenezer staring after her until she was lost in the gloom of the gully. "Isn't she dreadful?" Ebenezer said, with a rueful laugh. "She's so old," was Helen's gentle reproof. "She's not accountable for anything.
It was one day after having watched for several hours at the mouth of a rabbit-burrow, that Black Bruin discovered a queer creature, three or four times the size of a rabbit, walking leisurely along through the woods, and went in hot pursuit. By this time, the experience with the skunk had lost its old terror, and he was again the curious, keen hunter.
"Hurry up about it, too, Max," sang out Steve. "We want the show to begin. It's cold down here, believe me." "Oh, it'll be warm enough," declared the owner of the cabin, "if that onary little beast turns this way after he crawls out of the window. And I'll advise you all to give him plenty of room." "We will, thank you," the others sang out in a chorus. "Oh, you skunk, we like you at a distance!
But thar is. Even war we to cut clar through, kill every skunk o' 'em, our work 'ud be only begun. Thar's two score to meet us below. What ked we do wi' 'em? No, Frank; we mout tackle these twelve wi' some sort o' chance, but two agin forty! It's too ugly a odds. No doubt we ked drop a good grist o' 'em afore goin' under, but in the eend they'd git the better o' us kill us to a sartinty."
"She ought to see you harvesting skunk cabbage and blue flag or when you are angry enough." The doctor left the room and it was a half hour before he returned. "Try that on them according to directions," he said, handing over a couple of bottles. "Thank you!" said the Harvester, "I will!" "That sounds manly enough." "Oh pother!
This was a familiar thing in the hands of the Canadian lad, for many a time in the days long gone by he 'tended a line of traps in the country where fur grows longest and best, and mink, otter, muskrat, fisher, marten, skunk and even raccoon and opossum skins bring a good price.
In fact, he was so busy thinking that he didn't see Jimmy Skunk until he almost stepped on him, and then he gave a frightened jump and ran, for without a gun he was just as much afraid of Jimmy as Jimmy was of him when he did have a gun. Jimmy just grinned and went on about his business.
"Sit down and cool off. You've let that skunk, McQuiggan, get you all excited." "This began before McQuiggan." "Then you've been talking to some jealous doctor-crank." "For God's sake, Father, answer my plain question." "Why, there's no such thing as an actual cure for Bright's disease." "Don't you say in the advertisements that Certina will cure it?"
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