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He seemed to reproach himself. "Now how could I be so neglectful? I clean forgot to ask." "That's ridiculous," was her sharp verdict. "Yes, ma'am, plumb ridiculous. My only excuse is that they began scattering lead so sudden I didn't have time to ask many 'Whyfors. I reckon we'll just have to call it a Wyoming difference of opinion," he concluded pleasantly.
You would have let them hang you, without speaking the word that brought me into it. Why?" "I'm awful obstinate when I get my back up," he smiled. "That wasn't it. You did it to save a girl you had never seen but once. I want to know why." "All right. Have it your own way. But don't ask me to explain the whyfors. I'm no Harvard professor." "I know," she said softly.
But it hasn't told me why you couldn't go back along the road you came, why you couldn't leave the road, and why you didn't want to go right up to Sweeney's office with the sack. It hasn't given me any information about where you have been the past two weeks, or how " "My gracious! He bubbles whyfors and howfors like he had just come uncorked," murmured Dave, in his slow drawl.
He broke out suddenly in anger: "What's eatin' you all? Why don't you go out an' help me find the girl? These whatfors an' whyfors can wait, I reckon." Blister dropped a bomb. "She's found." "Found!" Houck stared at the fat man. "Who found her? Where? When?" "Coupla hours ago. Here in this r-room.
Our publisher and owner was a small, energetic, vibrant and colorful soul, all egotism and middle-class conviction as to the need of "push," ambition, "closeness to life," "punch," and what not else, American to the core, and descending on us, or me rather, hourly as it were, demanding the "hows" and the "whyfors" of the dream which the little group I was swiftly gathering about me was seeking to make real.
They're drilled an' in companies. But they can arrest any one they've a mind to, and their officers can try and sentence folks. They don't play no favorites either. Soon as they hear of this mix-up between the Crees and the Blackfeet they'll be right over askin' whyfors, and if they find who gave 'em the booze some one will be up to the neck in trouble and squawkin' for help."