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"Bud, you've been actin' kind of rash around here," Hall said, in insolent satisfaction with the turn of events. "You had your lucky day with me, like you had with Swan Carlson, but I gave you a sneak's chance to leave the country while the goin' was good. If you ever leave it now the wind'll blow you out. Back him up to that wagon wheel!"
I suppose you could climb the green gate?" "Yes," still lower, from the culprit. "Well, then, it was you who stole these things. You know it, and you dare not deny it. Look me in the face! Raise your sneak's eyes, and answer!" But in place of anything of that sort Jean-Marie broke into a dismal howl and fled from the arbour.
Mark Galloway's ears must have played him false; but it was a regular sneak's trick to come and repeat it to the school. I say, Constance, is my face clean now?" Constance woke up from a reverie to look at his face. "Quite clean," she answered. He dried it, dried his hands, gave a glance at his shirt-front in the glass, which had, however, escaped damage, brushed his hair, and went downstairs.
"Have you seen any of them lately?" inquired Boone, coming to Sneak's post and running his eye along the horizon through the loophole. "Not a one," replied Sneak, "except that feller laying out yander by the snowball." "He's dead," said Boone, "and he is the only one that we are sure of having killed to-night. But many are wounded."
"What's that?" cried Joe, dashing his bucket, water and all, in Sneak's lap, and running ten or fifteen feet up the hill. "Dod rot your cowardly heart!" exclaimed Sneak, rising up and shaking the cold water from his clothes; "if I don't pay you for this, I wish I may be shot!"
William's illness Sneak's strange house Joe's courage The bee hunt Joe and Sneak captured by the Indians Their sad condition Preparations to burn them alive Their miraculous escape. Just before the dawn of day, Roughgrove and Glenn were awakened by Mary. She was weeping at the bed-side of William. "What's the matter, child?" asked Roughgrove, rising up and lighting the lamp.
Sneak's fire abated somewhat, likewise, and Joe's reliance upon having their aid in a very short time caused his fears to subside in a great measure. "If you're so crazy after asafoetida," said he, looking down at the fiercely staring animals again, "I'll give you a taste, just to see what you'll do."
"Why don't he fire?" inquired Glenn, in a whisper. "It is not quite time yet," responded Roughgrove. "Dod! they'll crawl up presently, and jump over the fence," said Sneak. "Oh, goodness! I wish he'd shoot!" said Joe, in low, sepulchral tones, his head thrust between Sneak's legs, whither he had crawled unobserved, and was now peering out at the scene.
"What is it?" cried Joe, leaping farther up the ascent with great trepidation, as he saw the hounds run out of the bushes as if pursued, and even Sneak retreating a few paces. But what seemed very unaccountable was a smile on Sneak's elongated features. "What in the world can it be?" repeated Joe.
Fear, pain, apprehension, joy and affection, all seemed to be mingled in his heaving breast. "He's crazy, dod" the word died upon Sneak's lip. "I should like to know who burnt his foot then," said Joe. "Silence! both of you," said Glenn. "What does he mean?" at length asked Roughgrove, staring at the young chief. "Let us be patient, and see," said Glenn.
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