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The strain was beginning to tell on his nerves. "Hit's a letter for you-all from Mr. Stamford at the dee-po," said the boy. "He allowed maybe you-all'd gimme a nickel for bringin' hit." The coin was found and passed, and the small boy was whooping and yelling for Helgerson to come and let him through the gates when Tom tore the envelope across and read the telegram.
"Mebbe you-all'd better take me to hist the trunks, es Ah am young and hearty," ventured Jeb, anxiously. "You! Why, Jeb, Ah can turn you over with my small finger," laughed Mr. Brewster, comparing his tall muscular frame with that of small slim Jeb's.
You-all'd better reconsider and go in with me on it." But they were stubborn. "You're as bad as Harper and Joe Ladue," said Joe Hines. "They're always at that game. You know that big flat jest below the Klondike and under Moosehide Mountain? Well, the recorder at Forty Mile was tellin' me they staked that not a month ago The Harper & Ladue Town Site. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Ah wish you-all'd eat that brekfus an' vamoose outen my way. Ah hes t' scrub this hull floor soon ez th' stove's shined!" "That's exactly why I came in, Sary to get breakfast out of your way," returned Mrs. Brewster, sending a swift glance at Polly and Anne. As Sary's words made way for their work, all fell to with a vim. Polly and Anne carried dishes and chairs out of the room, while Mrs.
You could a' made a straight, a straight flush, or a flush out of it." "That's what I thought," Campbell said sadly. "It cost me six thousand before I quit." "I wisht you-all'd drawn," Daylight laughed. "Then I wouldn't a' caught that fourth queen. Now I've got to take Billy Rawlins' mail contract and mush for Dyea. What's the size of the killing, Jack?"
Letton asked in a queer, thin voice. Daylight shook his head. "It's sure too expensive. You-all ain't worth it. I'd sooner have my chips back. And I guess you-all'd sooner give my chips back than go to the dead-house." A long silence followed. "Well, I've done dealt. It's up to you-all to play.
I take it for granted you won't, out o' compliment to me, an' as a further compliment I'd be obliged if you-all'd honor me to the extent o' havin' a little nip." The crowd shuffled to the bar, and a lanky prospector in from the dry diggings at Coolgardie spoke up. "I'm a stranger here, but I'll help pull a rope tight around that mule- skinner's neck.
As Ratzger sighed, Jeb remarked philosophically: "Ef you-all'd rather be sittin' at home than a galavantin' round places where money kin be found, Ah b'lieves it's the onny reason you-all is spared whiles your friend is locooed." Ratzger had never heard the term "locooed" so he was not quite sure what Jeb meant.
The Texan performed this service by deftly dropping a small stone upon the sleeping man's face. "I just stepped over to inquire what you-all'd like for breakfast this mornin'," he said with a grin. "Not that it matters much, 'cause the dumb-waiter down to where you be ain't waitin' to-day, but it's manners, kinder, to ask." Wade looked up at him grimly, but said nothing.
He slides around to the player facin' the dealer across the table. "'Say, he whispers, 'I seen the dealer deal hisself four aces. "'Well, an' what of it?" says the player. "'I'm tryin' to tell you-all because I thought you-all ought to know, says the tenderfoot. 'I tell you-all I seen him deal hisself four aces. "'Say, mister, says the player, 'you-all'd better get outa here.
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