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"It's a bad business," some one mumbled. "It's a bad business for Yaller-head," he added, by way of diverting the suspicion of personal shortcomings. "We'll see her through," Marmot said. "We'll "
Maybe Yaller-head could give you news about it if she wanted to. Only she don't, now she's got young Dickson. There ain't no mystery about where he came from." He was indignant at the calling in question of his word, and as he smarted himself, so did he try to make Tony smart.
"Why, Nellie Murray and Dickson have been thick for " "Have they?" Nuggan, in his turn, interrupted. "And you think Dickson has time for any one now since Yaller-head went out to Barellan? I know, I do. I don't tell no fairy tales. No more than when I said it was strange you being the only one at the Flat who wasn't sandy or mousey in the hair. I don't make no error.
"Godson's dead," he said. "And buried," Smart added, with pardonable pride, for he was the local undertaker as well as saw-miller. Tony, sitting on the tobacco-box, gazed at them open-mouthed. "It was sudden it's curled Cold-blood Slaughter clean up," Cullen put in as further explanation. "And Yaller-head she's gone to Barellan," another man, wishing to have some share in the proceedings, put in.
"I would have told him, only I couldn't get him by himself; for it seems a bit queer to me, what with Yaller-head going out to Barellan and young Dickson going bail for Bob Murray's stores," the storekeeper said. "It ain't no business of ours, Smart it ain't no business of ours; but I'd as lief have seen him and Yaller-head in double harness as any." "And why not?" Smart asked.
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