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"There'll be strong and well-managed opposition; in fact, we have nearly everything against us. I've been urged to wait, but the evil's increasing; those against us are growing stronger." "If you lose, you and your friends will find the Butte pretty hot. But you feel you have a chance, a fighting chance, and you mean to take it?" "Yes." "Then I'm with you," Grant declared with a grim smile.

"What other way? since even Samson couldn't batter down the door." "A lot simpler than battering. Climb out of a window." "Too high," said Angela. "No. I can manage all right. I'll get out, find the Padre, and " "And leave me here in the dark? No!" "But there'll be Billy." "Let Billy go," Angela half whispered, "and you stay with me.

Your father found the lode and the map telling the way to it, drawn by him, is yours now." "But we are partners. I could never get through these mountains and past the Indian tribes without you. We're partners and there'll be plenty for all, if we ever get it. Say right now, Jim, that you share and share alike with me, or I won't be easy in my mind." "Well, then, if you will have it that way.

Bunker, "what can that be, coming at this time of day? It can never be the doctor coming home without sending orders! Don't you be running out, Miss Lucy; there'll be a draught of cold air right in." Lucy stood still; very anxious, and wondering whether she should see anything alive, or one of her visitors from various countries. "There is a letter from Mr.

And you swore that, as long as there was breath in your body, it should never come. And I believed you. That's all. A long pause, during which MRS. H. bows her head and rolls the bread-twist into little pellets: G. stares at the oleanders. There'll be an explosion yet. B-but even Red Indians allow people to wriggle when they're being tortured, I believe.

"That's it, sir; and you'd better write it as plain as you can, sir, so as there sha'n't be no mistakes after, and I dessay I can manage to make my cross." "A will made on a camel in the desert, Sam!" said Frank seriously. "Rather a novelty in wills, eh? Better wait till after breakfast." "Breakfast, sir?" "The Sheikh says there'll be coffee." "Coffee out here, sir?"

"That'll do splendid," whispered my companion. "Three times, mind. Hark! they're talking about it all over the place. There'll be an alarm directly about a lion getting into the laager." By the time we had reached the spot where the officers made their bare, unsheltered camp, the alarm had already died away; and, after being challenged, we had leave to advance.

"The whole piece wouldn't really be too large if we're to have room to extend ourselves," said Pelle, who was not afraid of a large outlay when it was a question of a great plan. "I was thinking the same thing," answered Bran. "How much is there here? A couple of hundred acres? There'll be room for a thousand families if each of them is to have a fair-sized piece of land."

As they flashed down the street the music followed them. She twisted to look back and he caught her eyes. "Tabs, do you know what it's playing?" "Can't say I do." "It's out of the Elsie Janis revue at The Palace. I think it was written especially for this moment." She listened till the air reached the refrain and then sang the words, "Après la guerre, there'll be a good time everywhere."

But there, I must get back; on'y look here. There'll never be a better chance. Here's an old bosun's whistle; stuff it in yer pocket, and don't blow it till the right moment. When you do, blow hard, and me, Barney, and Neb Dumlow's with you." "But " "Butter be hanged, doctor. You've got three pistols, and the door's open.