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"If that's it," he said with unmistakable significance, "I don't mind tellin' you that I'm some partial to them special kind." Her chin rose a little. "I am not concerned over your feelings," she returned without looking at him. "That kind of a woman would naturally know a heap," he went on, apparently unmindful of the rebuke; "they'd cert'nly know enough to be able to see when a man likes them."
Of course her taxes wus awful high; and she didn't expect to have any voice in tellin' how that money, a part of her own property, that she earned herself in a store, should be used. "But she had jest been taxed high for new sidewalks in front of some of her buildin's.
Pete saw a peculiar expression in her gray eyes. It was as though she were searching for something beneath the surface of his superficial humor; for she knew that there was something that he wanted to say something entirely alien to these chance pleasantries. She all but anticipated his question. "Would you mind tellin' me somethin'?" he queried abruptly. "No.
An' it killed thet man, as I seen afterward. Then come a bunch of thunderin' shots nine I calkilated after, fer they come so quick I couldn't count them an' I knew Lassiter hed turned the black guns loose on Dyer. "I'm tellin' you straight, Miss Withersteen, fer I want you to know. Afterward you'll git over it. I've seen some soul-rackin' scenes on this Utah border, but this was the awfulest.
"I have bin tellin' you the truth," protested Shorty with an injured air. "Why should I tell you a lie about a little thing like a cow?" "You are not within a mile of the truth. I know it. Look here: I believe that is Gen. Rosecrans's own cow. She's gone, and I got an order to look around for her. I've never seen her, but from the description given me I believe that's she. Who brought her here?"
And any balin' wire on this ranch is my balin' wire, and it's got a right to lay around wherever I want it t' lay. And I don't need no danged squaw givin' me hints about 'how my place oughta be kept now I'm tellin' yuh!" Annie-Many-Ponies did not reply in words.
Wade was tellin' me about," says I. "Oh, yes," adds Old Hickory. "I remember now. This is the boat Commodore Wade went up the Orinoco in, and he had her fitted for tropical cruising. How many staterooms in all, did you say, son?" "Twelve, outside of the crew's quarters," says I. "Regular floating hotel," says Old Hickory. "We shall not be crowded for room, Mrs. Hemmingway."
We ought all to be friends when we live so close together, shouldn't we?" wistfully. Aunt Kate tried her best to tell her that they were all friends, but she couldn't do it. "What's the good of tellin' her folks are friendly when they don't look friendly? Seems if a body can't frown with her face an' smile with her heart at the same time. An' frowns are just as catchin' as germs.
I sure hope they do. But while you're worldly for me jest forget Gary. I ain't tellin' you you got to. I'm talkin' as your friend." "I'll go you," said Pete slowly. "But if Steve Gary comes at me " "That's different. Let him talk and you keep still. Keepin' still at the right time has saved many a man's hide. Most folks talk too much."
And then, her eyes dancing as they shot a swift glance at him "I should call that a pretty speech." He reddened with embarrassment. "I expect you are laughin' at me now, ma'am," he said. "But I wasn't thinkin' to make any pretty speeches. I was tellin' you the truth." She soberly plied her needle, and he sat back, watching her.
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