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When I got to thinking what likely might a-happened if I'd come along them five minutes sooner, Miss, I had cold creeps crawling all up and down the spine of my back!"

"But, seein' you ain't scared, an' thar bein' no blaze in these yere parts, maybe you'd put us on the trail. Guess I'd a-gone on siesterin' till midnight if you hadn't a-happened by gracias a Dios!"

If Santa hadn't been on one of his tears at the time, the thing wouldn't a-happened him and Hart always having been friendly, and 'specially so after the trouble they'd had together over Hart's aunt. But when it did happen being so sort of needless, and Hart popular most of us made our minds up something had got to be done. Joe Cherry headed the reform movement.

They haven't come back?" Nurse was coming down the path gingerly, with a shawl over her cap. "No, ma'am. Whatever can have happened? Something's a-happened, that's certain." "Nonsense, Nurse!" "But whatever should keep them out till late into the night, ma'am?" "It's only a little after six. It isn't night at all." "But the tea, ma'am! And Master Robin's so regular in his habits.

"What a mess!" he remarked, as he paused and surveyed the scene. The severed eggs were beginning to thaw in the heat of the stove, and a miserable odour was growing stronger. "Must a-happened on the steamer," he suggested. Rasmunsen looked at him long and blankly. "I'm Murray, Big Jim Murray, everybody knows me," the man volunteered.

Sam ran after her, and caught her up, as if she had been a stray lamb; and though she struggled hard, he carried her to the picnic ground, where the large girls were just spreading the table for supper. "You'd better look out for these here young ones," said Sam. "This one would have been roasted sure, if I hadn't a-happened along in the nick of time."

Pity it hadn't a-happened to be the same day, then maybe Mis' Haven mought a give you somethin' like Mis' Alice give Jintsey's boy." John Jay had that same thought all the rest of the way to Rosehaven, but after they entered the brilliantly illuminated grounds he seemed to stop thinking altogether. It was a sight beyond all that his wildest imaginings had pictured. He did not recognize the place.

If you'd a-happened to be Jonesy, and Jonesy had a-happened to 'a' been you, I reckon you'd feel it was pretty tough to see such a big difference between you. It doesn't seem fair now, does it?" "No," admitted Malcolm, faintly. He had taken a dislike to the man. He could not have told why, but his child instinct armed him with a sudden distrust.

Well, that seemed a straight enough story. The only thing in it you really could pick on except the number of road-agents, he only having seen one, and the rest being his scared guesswork was the mule not being hit while he was doing all that firing over the back of her. But all fights has their queer chances in 'em; and that was a chance that might a-happened, same as others.

She AIN'T happy here, and she WAS happy WITH YOU." "Then, why did she leave me?" "I don't know. She wasn't goin' ter do it at first. Somethin' must a-happened afterwards, somethin' that you an' me didn't know about." "We WILL know about it, Jim. Where is she?" His quick eye searched the lot. His voice had regained it's old command. He felt that he could conquer worlds.