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"Why, I mean," said he, easily, sitting down near the door, "that it's Sunday. School don't hinder yu' from enjoyin' a ride to-day. You'll teach the kids all the better for it to-morro', ma'am. Maybe it's your duty." And he smiled at her. "My duty! It's quite novel to have strangers " "Am I a stranger?" he cut in, firing his first broadside.
In no company had I ever felt so much an outsider. Yet I liked the company, and wished that it would like me. "Just come to town?" inquired Steve of the Virginian. "Been here since noon. Been waiting for the train." "Going out to-night?" "I reckon I'll pull out to-morro'." "Beds are all took," said Steve. This was for my benefit. "Dear me," said I.
I wouldn't no more fool ye, ye know I wouldn't, don't ye? than I'd jerk a hoss," he asseverated. "Your place is clear now, an' by this time to-morro' the' won't be the scratch of a pen agin it. I'll send the satisfaction over fer record fust thing in the mornin'." "But, Dave," protested the widow, "I s'pose ye know what you're doin' ?" "Yes," he interposed, "I cal'late I do, putty near.
"'Wa'al, I says to her, after we'd had a little more talk, 's'posen you come 'round to my place to-morro' 'bout 'leven o'clock, an' mebbe we c'n cipher this thing out.
David twisted his chair a little more to the right and out from the desk. "You think it c'n run along, do ye?" he asked suavely. "I'm glad to have your views on the subject. Wa'al, I guess it kin, too, until to-morro' at four o'clock, an' after that you c'n settle with lawyer Johnson or the sheriff." The man uttered a disdainful laugh. "I guess it'll puzzle ye some to c'lect it," he said. Mr.
His utterances, such as, "We'll work Willo' Creek to-morro' mawnin'," or, "I want the wagon to be at the fawks o' Stinkin' Water by Thursday," though on some occasions numerous enough to sound like discourse, never once broke the man's true silence. Seeming to keep easy company with the camp, he yet kept altogether to himself.
'Poppa came home last night an' I'll have him see you this afternoon or to-morro'. 'But mebbe he 'n I won't agree about the price, I says. 'Yes, you will, she says, 'an' if you don't I won't make his back sore' an' off they went, an' left me standin' there like a stick in the mud. I've bought an' sold hosses to some extent fer a consid'able number o' years," said Mr.
Day after to-morro' 's Chris'mus, an' I want ye to drop Mis' Cullom a line, somethin' like this, 'That Mr.
"What'd he say about leavin'?" John laughed and related the conversation as exactly as he could. "What'd I tell ye," said Mr. Harum, with a short laugh. "Mebbe he won't go till to-morro', after all," he remarked. "He'll want to put in a leetle more time tellin' how he was sent for in a hurry by that big concern f'm out of town 't he's goin' to."
"He told me he expected you would stay as long as might be necessary to get me well started," said John non-committally, mindful of Mr. Harum's injunction. "Jest like him," declared Chet. "Jest like him for all the world; but the fact o' the matter is 't I'm goin' to-morro'. I s'pose he thought," reflected Mr.
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