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Everybody means to git aout in time, but thunder! every piece of perrary in this territory's a deadfall. Somebody'll git catched in every one of them air traps. Gee up! G'lang! Git up, won't you? Hey?"
"And as there's ten thousand pounds in question, more will be heard of it. Somebody'll be after that, you may be sure!" Bryce left the train at Barthorpe thanking his good luck the man in the far corner had unwittingly given him a hint. He would pay a visit to Braden Medworth the coincidence was too striking to be neglected.
That is the business to which I referred, and is the only business I have in the Kentucky mountains. Are you satisfied?" "If Ah ain't, Ah'll give you-all warnin' that somebody'll shoot ye till you-all's daid!" warned Jed Thompson. "That is a game two can play at. I have played at it myself," chuckled Lieutenant Wingate.
"Why?" demanded the riverman, "I won't let any boss stump me; but why in hell should I go out and get my hide full of birdshot? If this outfit don't know enough to get its drive down, that ain't my fault." Bob had seen enough of the breed to recognize this as an eminently characteristic attitude. "Well," he remarked comfortably, "somebody'll be down from the mill soon."
"They'll get it, Nance. Somebody'll develop a real estate deal here some day. They must have a hundred acres here. You'll see it- -'Witcher Park' or 'Witcher Manor. The old chap who inherited it is as rich as Croesus, he was in the office the other day, he wants to sell. Hello! I was in the office garden and so I said- -if you please " Bert was going to sleep.
It hung for a moment and then fell into the boat below with a crash. "What d'ye mean by that?" roared the man in charge of the boat. "What d'ye mean, ye villains? D'ye mean to stave a hole in us?" "Why," said the man who had pushed it, "you saw 'twasn't done a purpose, didn't you?" "Well, you try it again, and somebody'll get hurt," said the man in the boat, showing the butt end of his pistol.
"Huh!" he sneered. "Gettin' in shape for the fling to-morrow night, eh?" With an impatient movement she opened the gate and stepped inside. "I've given it to you straight," he went on. "If you don't go with me to-morrow night somebody'll get hurt." "I hope it will be you," she cried vindictively. He laughed as he threw his head back, stretched his big chest, and half-lifted his heavy arms.
"When he's in the road-agent business, he has a crowd to help him. Now, 'twould do us more good to clean them out than him alone, so let's give him a chance to leave the State if he'll tell who his confederates are. Somebody'll have to take care of him, of course, till we can catch them, and make sure of it."
'Walk back to the next corner, he muttered, 'and turn to yer left. It'll be down there ber the cliffs, if nobody's stolen it. Somebody'll sure 'nough be there ter point it out to yer. "'I'm a stranger, I apologized; 'I really didn't know. "'Know! he shouted. 'Who was it owned the land this 'ere street runs over? Who built it? Who was it paid fer the church on the hill?
They'd be hell a-poppin' all over the range. Speakin' personal, I'm with you to the finish, for I know how you feel about Pop Annersley. But you ain't growed up yet. You got plenty time to think. If you are a-hankerin' for Gary's scalp, when you git to be twenty-one, why, go to it. But you're a kid yet, and a whole lot can happen in five or six years. Mebby somebody'll git Gary afore then.
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