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Of cou'se you carried the sack and York Neil held the guns." The man cursed quietly, and relapsed into silence. "Always buy your clothes in pairs?" The sheriff's voice showed only a pleasant interest, but the outlaw's frightened eyes were puzzled at this sudden turn. "Wearing a bandanna same color and pattern as you did the night of our jamboree on the Limited, I see.
Leroy," said the sheriff quickly, his blue-gray eyes on the former chief. "That was the agreement, Mr. Collins, but it seems the boys are on the anxious seat about these little socials of ours. They've embraced the notion that I'm selling them. I hated to have them harassed with doubts, so I invited the new majordomo of the ranch to come with me. Of cou'se, if you object "
I knows quality folks the minute I comes across 'em. Now yo', Mr. Trask, is all off yo' cou'se." "What do you mean?" "Yo' all ain' no business fo' mixin' in with a ship full o' low-down rakin's an' scrapin's like we got aboard hyar." "You mean Captain Jarrow and Mr. Peth?" "Crew," said Doc. "What about the crew?" "Bad lot." "You mean the crew can't be trusted?"
He had not to pronounce upon her syntax, or her social quality; it was enough for him, in behalf of the Claxons, to find her what she professed to be. "You must think," he said, laughing, "that we are over-particular; but the fact is that we value Clementina rather highly, and we wish to be sure that your hospitable offer will be for her real good." "Of cou'se," said Mrs. Lander.
After all, she has merely asked Clementina to pass the winter with her. It will be a good opportunity for her to see something of the world; and perhaps it may bring her the chance of placing herself in life. We have got to consider these things with reference to a young girl." Mrs. Claxon said, "Of cou'se," but Claxon did not assent so readily.
"I guess he'd think I was a pretty changed pusson! Now, I want you should stay with me, Clementina, and if anybody else comes " Maddalena entered the room with a card which she gave to the girl. "Who is it?" Mrs. Lander demanded. "Miss Milray." "Of cou'se! Well, you may just send wo'd that you can't Or, no; you must! She'd have it all ova the place, by night, that I wouldn't let you see her.
It don't seem right to pass 'em ova. Do you think it would yourself, Clementina?" "Why, of cou'se not, Mrs. Lander. It wouldn't be right at all." Mrs. Lander looked relieved, and she said, as if a little surprised, "I'm glad you feel that way; I should feel just so, myself. I mean to do by you just what I always said I should.
The Judge was questioning his faithful servant: "Did the officers think he had any help in escaping?" "Yessar, sum one mus' 'a' sperited dat file inter de jail, an' ob cou'se no ossifer would 'a dun it." "Who do they think was his helper?" "Zibe Turner. Two er free in de town see 'im sneakin' roun', but befo' dey could grab 'im he war gone.
"I mean," Clementina explained, "that if I let him think the religion was all the'e was, it wouldn't have been fai'a." "Why, weren't you sincere about that?" "Of cou'se I was!" returned the girl, almost indignantly. "But if the'e was anything else, I ought to have told him that, too; and I couldn't." "Then you can't tell me, of course?" Miss Milray rose in a little pique.
"Oh, I am so glad for you! I am so glad he is alive." He took the dispatch from her hand. "I brought it to you as soon as it came." "Yes, yes! Of cou'se!" "I must go now and do what he says I don't know how yet." He stopped, and then went on from a different impulse. "Clementina, it isn't a question now of that wretch's life and death, and I wish I need never speak of him again.
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