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Eyes might speak, smiles might half reveal, half hide her thoughts; but the tongue, as her tribe had taught her sternly, must speak the truth or keep silent. Now she bent her head, puzzling how best to put her feelings toward Luck Lindsay into honest words which Ramon would understand. "Yoh lov' him, perhaps since yoh all time afraid he be mad."
As it was, he shivered, but more from nervousness than from the chill night air. "Yoh hum, but I'm sleepy," he murmured drowsily. A moment more and his head had drooped to one side and Tad Butler was sleeping as soundly as if tucked away between his own blankets back in his tent in the foothills. Tad awakened with a start.
And as he looked more closely at her face the truth slowly crept into his brain. Passionately his hands went out to her, as he took a trembling step forward: "My Gawd, my Gawd, Miss Jane! Don't tell me that I done that! Don't tell me it war yoh Pappy!" The telephone was on the wall of this room. Keeping the long table between them, she crossed quickly and turned the little crank.
Sigsbee relative to the mattah. He hands me a letter, but I can't hardly read it his buyin' this hop-head gets my goat. "'What you goin' to do with him? I says. 'Race him? "'That is ma intention, suh, he says. 'Ah expect to keep him in yoh hands. But, of co'se, suh, the hawss will race on his merits and without any sawt of stimulant. "I ain't stuck on the proposition.
But I hated religion, knowin' her. Well, ther's a day of makin' things clear, comin'." They had reached the corner now, and Polston turned down the lane. "Yoh'll think o' Yare's case?" he said. "Yes. But how can I help it," Holmes said, lightly, "if I am like my mother here?" putting his hand to his mouth. "God help us, how can yoh?
Buy yoh lots pretty theengs, me treat yoh fine. Yoh lucky girl, yoh bet. Yoh don't be foolish no more. Yoh run away, be my womans. W'at yoh theenk? Go back, perhaps? Yoh theenk Luck Leen'sey take yoh back? You gone off with Ramon Chavez, he say; yoh stay weeth Ramon then. Yoh Ramon's woman now. Yoh not be foolish like yoh too good for be kees. Luck, be kees yoh many times, I bet!
I tell yoh many times we go on one ranch my brother Tomas says she's be mine. We lives there in fine house weeth mooch flowers, yoh not so moch as lif' one finger for work, querida mia. Yoh theenk I not be trus', me, Ramon what loves yoh?" "No hurt for swears what I tells," Annie-Many-Ponies stepped back from him a pace, distrust creeping into her voice. "All right." Ramon moved nearer.
My girl weeth eyes that shine so bright, she lov' me moch as I lov' her. That what my heart she sing. Yoh not be so cruel like stone yoh say, 'Ramon, I lov' yoh. Jus' like that! So easy to say!" "Not easy," she denied, moved to save her freedom yet a while longer. "I say them words, then I then I not be same girl like now. Maybe much troubles come. Maybe much happy I dunno.
Uncle Noah had not lived in an atmosphere permeated with Fairfax pride without feeling its influence. "I'se not askin' foh charity, Miss," he averred stubbornly. "I'se a-sellin' sumthin'. I reckons if yoh buy me, Miss, an' yoh lemme go back an' stay Christmas wif ol' Massa, I'll sell maself cheap.
"That's all right 'bout bein' hurt," the fellow growled. "If you ain't got that money with you, I'm goin' to take its wu'th outen yoh hide. You got yoh hide, ain't you?" For the first time Brent realized he was about to have trouble. The man's size impressed him with no particular awe. He did not think of this.
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