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At M'Adam's yell, James Moore had turned. "Served yo' properly!" he called back. "He'll larn ye yet it's not wise to tamper wi' a gray dog or his sheep. Not the first time he's downed ye, I'm thinkin'!" The little man raised himself painfully to his elbow and crawled toward the gate. The Master, up the lane, could hear him cursing as he dragged himself.
"'I am, though, says Ronald, confidentially. 'I'm just nineteen. How old are you? "'Thirteen, says Margaret, softly. "'Don't renig, says Ronald. 'I think we're pretty near of an age. "When Margaret got home, she looked up 'renig' in the dictionary, but it wasn't there. She was too smart to ask Magdalene, but she kept on thinkin'.
He had been still for quite a spell, a thinkin'; and at last he broke out, "Say, auntie, shall I see my father there in the City?" And I didn't know what to tell him; for you know what it says, "Without are murderers." But then, agin, I thought, what will become of the respectable church members who sell the fire that flames up in a man's soul, and ruins his life?
The day you come we had about made up our minds to leave." "Oh!" "But I've been thinkin' of something since you've been here that I don't know but you'll say is about as wild as wantin' to buy a three-hundred- dollar picture with a week's board." She gave a short, self-scornful laugh; but it was a laugh, and it relieved the tension. "It may not be worth any more," he said, glad of the relief.
But as she moved alone about the kitchen she was still haunted by the clear, questioning eyes of the child in the photograph upstairs. They seemed to follow her accusingly, reproachfully. "Drat old pictures!" she at last burst out angrily. "They'd ought to be burnt up the whole lot of them! They always set you thinkin'."
The Senator smiled a trifle apologetically. "There's more of it. But po'try ain't just in my line. Once in a while I bust loose on po'try that is, my kind of po'try. And I want to say that we sure clattered down from the Butte and the Blue in the old days, with our rein chains jinglin', thinkin' some of us that Arizona was ours to fare-ye-well.
I'm thinkin', Jack, we'll find the Shawnee had somethin' to do with this. Whatever happens after I get back to the fort, I'll expect you hard on my trail." Jonathan bounded across the brook and with an easy lope began the gradual ascent. Soon he came upon a winding path.
"Yes, yes," said Dundee, whose thoughts had evidently been far away, and who was attaching little importance to Jock's groundless fears. "Go on. So you did a bit of scouting, I suppose?" I'm no prepared to say that I could catch a' their colloguing, but I got enough to set me thinkin'. Juist bits, but they could be pieced togither." "Well," said Dundee, with more interest, "what were the bits?"
What's that feller doin' over thar with that crowd about him?" "Preaching," Foster answered. "Wall, he couldn't call up mourners the wagins would run over 'em. What do you think of all this, Jasper?" "Who, me?" the old man replied as if startled out of a dream, "I wasn't thinkin' of it didn't see it." "I don't reckon," said Laz, "that all these folks knows we air goin' to jail."
There must 'ave been a good deal between 'em, to my way o' thinkin'. Mind you I'm only giving you my sum of it all, because all I know is second-hand so to speak, or rather I should say more than second-'and." "How?" said Hooper peremptorily. "You must have seen it or heard it." "Yes," said Pyecroft.
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