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Went right by an' kept a-paddin' the hoof out a sight. Then I come back an' gave you the whistle. What made you take so long after that?" "I was waitin' to make sure," Matt explained. "I was mighty glad when I heard you whistle again. It's hard work waitin'. I just sat there an' thought an' thought... oh, all kinds' of things. It's remarkable what a fellow'll think about.
We'd brought a mob of cattle down for a squatter the other side of Mulgatown. We camped about seven miles the other side of the town, waitin' for the station hands to come and take charge of the stock, while the boss rode on into town to draw our money. Some of us was goin' back, though in the end we all went into Mulgatown and had a boose up with the boss.
Seein' so many soldiers comin' again us, some of our chaps got a bit frighted and took the cap'n at his word by castin' off our shore fasts at once, without waitin' for everybody to get aboard first.
He shut his mouth hard on the words which sprang into it, and held himself in silence until he had command of his anger. "I'm hunting," said he, meeting Chadron's eye with meaning look. "On foot, and waitin' for dark!" the cattleman sneered. "I'm going on foot because the game I'm after sticks close to the ground. There's no need of naming that game to you you know what it is."
I ain't said nothin'. I'm just waitin' to see, that's all. I have had some experience in this world, I have. There's different times comin' for this family, you set that down in your log-book, Ros Paine." "Look here, Lute; if you are hinting that Miss Colton or her people intend offering us charity " "Who said anything about charity?
"He might ha' broke his legs climbin' disp'rit on the rocks," said Mrs. Fottrel, unconvinced by the argument from unsaleability," and be lyin' there now waitin' for the say-waves to wash the life out of him. Heaven pity the crathur!" "Sure, I 'll step down and see what's gone wid him," said Mick.
"The Springs is a safer place for him now." The hyenas were beginning to prowl around the disabled lion, and this the faithful servant knew even better than the wife. "All right, home we go," she replied, and the thought of "home" was both sweet and perilous. Haney met her decision with pathetic, instant joy. "I'm ready, I was only waitin'," he said.
"Keziah, I'm waitin'. And I'm goin' to wait if I stay here all night. Come!" She obeyed then. She could not have a scene there, before all those strangers. She stepped past him into the little room. He followed and closed the door. "Nat," she said, turning to him, "why did you come? How could you be so cruel? He interrupted her, but not with words.
It wouldn't do a bit of good for you two to hang around here and get killed, waitin' for me to die; but it would do a lot of harm, for it might mean that Miss Harding would be lost too." "You say my daughter is on this island you speak of, with Norris and Foster is she quite safe and well?" asked Harding. "Perfectly," said Byrne; "and now beat it you're wasting a lot of precious time."
"Mabbe she ain't well! Tell us about it, Nan!" "When I do," she said complacently, "mabbe youse'll smile out of de other corner of dat mouth of yers!" She turned to Shluker. "Youse needn't lay awake waitin' fer dat thousand, Shluker, 'cause youse'll never see it. De little game's all off 'cause it's already been pulled. See?
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