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A befrizzled Maria, whose scant hair stood out in startling Marcel waves, confronted him at luncheon-time. A sudden inspiration shook him to his depths. "Don't you want to go down-town and have your picture took?" he urged. "Let's have ours done together." Maria was proof against even this lure. She had a better idea. "They's a photograph man right here in the hotel," she chirped, joyously.
"That's why we are runnin' you for judge," said Cam. "This cussed country needs you in every office it's got to clean out that gang that robs an' cheats the Injuns, an' then makes 'em ravin' crazy with drinkin'. They's more 'n Conlow to blame, though, Judge. Keep one eye on the Government agents and Indian traders." "I wonder where Jean did go anyhow," O'mie whispered to me.
Well Al my wounds isn't the only reason I am comeing home but they's another reason and that is that they want some of us poplar idles to help rouse up the public on this here next Liberty Loan and I don't mind it as they have promised to send me home to Chi and I can be with Florrie and the kids.
Well Al its all true. Well I finely got a letter from Florrie that is if you could call it a letter and to read it you wouldn't never guess that she had a husband over here in France and maybe never see him again but you would think I had went across the st. to get a bottle of ketchup and all as she said about little Al was that he needed a new pair of shoes and they's about as much news in that as if she said he woke up in the night.
"Very little," Uncle Bill drawled tranquilly: "I dudes." "You what?" "I keeps an 'ad' in the sportin' journals, and guides." "Oh, yes, hunters eastern sportsmen " Mr. Dill nodded. "But I thought I recognized an old-time prospector in you." "They's no better in the hull West," Yankee Sam declared generously, while Uncle Bill murmured that there was surer money in dudes.
"How the trees blow!" exclaimed the child, looking up at the green arch overhead. "See! They's all a-noddin' to each othah." "We'll have to get my shoes an' 'tockin's," she said, presently, when they were nearly home. "They're in that fence cawnah behin' a log." The Colonel obediently got down and handed them to her. As he mounted again he saw a carriage coming toward them.
The delicatest ones has died out, but th' others has growed an' growed, an' spread an' spread, till they's a wonder. See here!" and he pulled down a thick gray, dry-looking branch. "A body might think this was dead wood, but I don't believe it is down to th' root. I'll cut it low down an' see." He knelt and with his knife cut the lifeless-looking branch through, not far above the earth.
If they ever gets a notion to stand up the stage, they's shore due to be in this canyon; wherefore Cherokee an' Texas an' Old Monte who's drivin' regards it s'picious. "'Send 'em through on the jump, Monte, says Cherokee, stickin' out his head.
The looks o' this here reminds me o' the tear one o' them there Mauser bullets makes Gawd! but they rip the men up shockin'!" He rambled on with uneasy volubility as he attended to the wound. "You let me clean it, now. It'll hurt some, but it'll save ye trouble after while. You set down on the bed. Where kin I git some water?" "Thar's a spring round the turn in the cave thar they's a go'd in it."
She uttered this happily, with a little note of triumph and another of her smiles that seemed to illuminate the universe. The Hopper had been called many names in his varied career, but never before had he been invested with the attributes of an agent of Providence. "They's things wot is an' they's things wot ain't, miss; I reckon I ain't as bad as some. I mean to be on the square, miss."
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