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Rayner was not among the number of those who sighed for Kate Travers's guarded smiles. Her earlier victims were kept a-dangling until Rayner, too, succumbed, and then were sent adrift. She meant that no penniless subaltern should carry off her "baby sister," they had long been motherless, and a season at the sea-shore had done her work well.
He climbed a hill and came plump upon a fence, wire-strung, wire-stayed, aggressively barring his way. "Dilly's about the most thorough-minded man I ever met up with," he mused, half annoyed, stopping a moment to survey critically the barrier. "Yuh never find a job uh hisn left with any loose ends a-dangling. He's got a fence here like he was guarding a railroad right-uh-way.
I walked on and entered the smoky barracks, and the first thing I saw was a pair o' scalps, stretched and hooped, a-dangling from the rafters. Doubtless, Murphy and Elerson meant to sew them to their bullet pouches when cured and painted.
In three weeks' time th' child is born, and as sound and as pretty a babe as e'er I clapt eyes on, and Keren a-dangling of him as natural as though she herself had been a mother, time and again. "What say'st thou now, lass?" quoth she. "Wilt trust Keren after this?" "Is he sound, verily?" saith the poor little dame, looking shyly upon him.
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