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And you 've been stopping a few days with Steve." As if it were nothing! Such ready belief and general inconsequentiality bothered Janet. She did not know, of course, that Jonas was hardly the sort of a Texan to feel comfortable in having a woman stand before him in the defensive, stating her case.
You are unspeakably rude, and I ought to be furiously angry." The Texan appeared to consider. "No. You oughtn't to do that because when something important comes up you ain't got anything back, an' folks won't regard you serious. But you wouldn't have been even peeved if you knew what I was thinkin' about." "What was it?"
These worthies who came over were Captain Hunt, of whom I have before made mention, and General Smith, commanding the Texan army, who was a certain butcher from Indiana, who had been convicted of having murdered his wife and condemned to be hanged. He had, however, succeeded in escaping from the gaol, and making his way to Texas.
The hunter, an old man, looked at him with curiosity and disapproval. "That's more than you an' me can say," he said, "although you be a Mexican yourself and know more about your people than I do. I jest tell what I've heard." "Mr. Urrea is one of the most ardent of the Texan patriots," said Ned. "I jest tell what I've heard," said the old man, whistling to his pony and riding away.
Even in this exciting moment, the Texan could not help asking himself the question which he had asked many times before: why did not the redskins set fire to the side of the house, where they were involved in no such peril as now?
"That sure was a right rotten exhibition of pitching," said the Texan humbly. "Why didn't you yank me out, captain?" "Because," answered Roger, "there was no one else to put in." "Why, Phil " "Has disappeared; can't find hide nor hair of him. I sent for Roy Hooker as a last resort and here he is!" Roy came up, his face flushed.
"Howdy," replied the Texan, dryly. "You take my advice an' lay low here in the bad lands an' they won't ketch you. I said it right in the Long Horn yeste'day mornin' they was a bunch of us lappin' 'em up.
The region was infested with robber bands and it was deemed important that the richly freighted caravan should not encounter harm within the limits of the United States. The Mexicans, were apprehensive that, as soon as they should separate from their American protectors, they should be attacked upon entering Texas, by a large body of Texan Rangers, who, it was reported, were waiting for them.
The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas, and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him.
He's always be'n anxious to pay it, ain't you, Bill? Well, it's paid now, an' you don't need to go worryin' your heart out about that debt no longer." Again the man opened his lips, but closed them hurriedly as Tex reached for the soap. "I'll have to borrow your horse an' saddle for my friend, here," said the Texan, "an' Bat, he'll have to borrow one, too. We'll leave 'em in Timber City."
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