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Papa and Sanson got along well until I refused to marry him; after that, the row began I hate him. He said I would have to marry him before he was done with me but I won't! "'You bet you won't, darling, says I, before I thought. 'Pardon me, Miss Rokesby, but if there is any marrying done around here, I want a hand in the game myself.
If you do not change your mind, I will be happy to talk over our affairs whenever you are ready. I shall be waiting. "I turned and bolted toward a door, when Gardiner yelled: "'Where are you going? "'To England, said I. "'This door, then, sir, said a Mexican. "I came back to the old man. "'Rokesby, said I, 'you have cut ten years off my life, but I forgive you; good-by. "'One thing more, Mr.
"'Something about sentence, pardner. "'Well, it's time they was doing something; did he say when it was? "'To-morrow. "'Good enough; I'm dead sick o' this. "'Can't I do anything for you, Mr. Rokesby for Rachel's sake? "'No yes, you can, too, young man; you can grant me a pardon for a worse crime nor murder, if you will for for Rachel's sake." "'It's granted then.
"I looked at him long and critically, and then said: "'No; I never saw you before. "'Yes; that's so, said he; 'but I have seen you, many times. You remember the Black Prince robbery? "'Yes, indeed; then you are Sanson? "'No; Rokesby. "'Rokesby! My God, man, where's Rachel? "'I thought so, he muttered. 'Well, she's in England, but I'm here. "'What part of England?
"We saw this sort of thing often, and I didn't any more than glance at it; but after supper I sauntered down by the engine, smoking and thinking of Rachel Rokesby, when I noticed a woman walking towards me, pail in hand.
I would not try to improve on it, if I was you. I'll tell it to you as it was. "About four days before the robbery, I was introduced to Rachel Rokesby, daughter of one of the partners in the Black Prince. I met her, in what seemed to be a casual way, at Mother Cameron's hash-foundry, but I found out, a long time afterward, that she had worked for two weeks to bring about the introduction.
Hogg; don't tell 'em at home how I went nothing about this last deal. "'Well, all right; but I'll tell Rachel, if we marry and come to America. "'I've got lots of honest relations, and my old mother still lives, in her eighties. "'Well, not till after she goes, unless to save Rachel in some way. "'Good-by, Mr. Hogg, God bless you! and and, little Rachel. "'Good-by, Mr. Rokesby.
The next morning when I turned out, the outlines of the wagon were dimly discernible away on a hill in the road; it had been gone an hour. "I walked down past my stump the gold was gone. "Well, John, I settled down to work and to wait for that precious letter that would summon me to the side of Rachel Rokesby, wherever she was; but it never came.
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