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Say, Theo, did you re'ely think he'd do the square thing, by you?" "Not much. I hoped he would an' I had to give him a chance, Jimmy?" "Why'd you have to?" asked Jimmy, curiously. "Where would I be now if somebody hadn't given me a chance, Jimmy?" "Oh, you you ain't Carrots. You're another sort."
If I stay out here I'm in danger of being drowned, or swept away by a landslide; if I go inside there's all the chance in the world that I'll be soaking in poisonous sulphur gas till I keel over. I'm up against it good and hard." "We're all in the same boat, remember, Peg," declared the cowboy. "But you knew more about this thing than I did, Nick. Why'd you let me come?
"No, you did not: I mane, very soon afther you got the agency " "Divil a word I said about the agency, either." "Well, well; some time ago he says that, some time ago, he and Martin Kelly were talking over your sister's affairs; I believe the widow was there, too." "Ah, now, Mr Daly why'd you be putting them words into my mouth? sorrow a word of the kind I iver utthered at all."
Sally came with the scarf and veil, and then she backed away to the stone, and sat there. The sight of blood had made her a little pale and weak. Miss Sampson's hands trembled and her tears still fell, but neither interfered with her tender and skillful dressing of that bullet wound. Steele certainly said a lot of crazy things. "But why'd you come why're you so good when you don't love me?"
'I had my pick o' you two, he explained to Learoyd, 'and you got my palanquin not before I'd made my profit on it. Why'd I do harm when everything's settled? Your man DID come here drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night came a-purpose to mock me stuck his head out of the door an' called me a crucified hodman. I made him drunker, an' sent him along. But I never touched him.
He was sure she'd known who it was had probably been the one who awakened him by looking in through the broken window. "Why'd you try to kill me, Ronda? You saw who it was. If you needed money, you know I'd give you anything I had. Why?" "Not for money." She twisted from him and slumped limply against a broken wall. Tears came into her eyes. This time the catch in her voice was real.
Dale looked down at her resentful face; but he felt no awe of her now this was the kind he understood! "The mountains are so full of Whitlys, that I never thought of placin' you as Bill's girl I don't remember even knowin' that he had a girl! Why'd you take me in school?" "How did I know who killed him!" she answered, in a hard, dry voice.
John, the eldest, took up a stick and slowly poked the red embers of the fire, making the white sparks fly. "Now, Milt, why'd you tell us thet?" he asked, guardedly. "You're the only friends I've got," replied Dale. "It didn't seem safe for me to talk down in the village. I thought of you boys right off. I ain't goin' to let Snake Anson get that girl. An' I need help, so I come to you."
"How about Arthur? You want me to take any questions to him for you?" "No; thanks. But," Hastings added, "you might make him see the necessity of telling me what he saw last night. If he doesn't come out with it, he'll make it all the harder on Webster." "I don't think he saw anything." "Didn't he? Why'd he refuse to testify before the coroner, then?"
"Expects you to write as much as the rest of the papers print and none of the other reporters know me." "One or two of them might have." "But my dear fellow won't you take a chance?" Bantry made a wry face. "Madison Square Garden," went on Woodbury bitterly. "Ten thousand people looking on gad, man, it's awful." "Why'd you do it, then?" "Couldn't help it, Bantry.
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