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Alf was only too glad to be able to understand that his part in the dismantling of the camp had been overlooked. While Tom and Harry led their guests into one of the tents, young Drew hastened over to where Jim Ferrers was starting a fire in the camp stove. "Now, put that stuff back in your pockets, or I'll throw it in the fire!" sounded the angry voice of Ferrers.
"Give us a song," said the rebel, and his comrades' heads began showing over the edge of the rock. "Now, no rock-throwing and no shootin' while he's singing'," said Shorty. "Give the boy a chance to git back to his tree after he's done." "All right. We'll play fair. But no politics," came back from the rock. "Go out there, Alf, on the gravel, and sing to 'em," said Shorty.
Can't reasonably suppose you contribute anything else. If you don't mind my saying it, your previous training " "Doesn't make me indispensable to the success of the business? Hardly, as yet. But for the very reason that I lack training, I've got to stay and get it." "Take lessons in shopkeeping from Hugh Benson?" "Exactly. And from Alf Carson. He's our manager." "Don't know him.
"'I know all about it. You need not be afraid, he said, as I took him to the breakfast-room, where no one up stairs could hear us. 'I know that my children are all dead and buried, except the one that was not born yet. Ill news flies quick. I know all about it. George, Henrietta, Jack, Alf, little Vi, and Tiny.
"I must be on the move; take care of yourself, Alf, and pray for me. You've put me on the track of a good thing, and if I win I'll be yours for life." The next morning, as Henley was on his way to the village, he saw Dixie in her peanut-patch on the side of the road.
I heard of her through Sal you know Sal, who 'angs out at the vest end o' Potter's Lane. I expect to see Sal in 'alf an hour, so if you're comin' back this way, I'll be at the Black Bull by two o'clock, and tell you all I can pump out of 'er." "I'll be there sharp," said Robin promptly; "an now pull up, for I must take to my legs here."
The remaining fourth of the stock was divided evenly between Cook Leon and the twenty-four miners who had stood by so loyally, so that now each of the original miners, in addition to his day's pay, owned one per cent. of the gold and silver that went up in the new elevator that replaced the tub-hoist. Alf Drew did not receive one of the small shares in the mine property.
"I'll tell you after a while." By this time the old gentleman was astride his horse. He took off his hat, bowed with the air of a cavalier, and, bidding us good-night, galloped off down the road. Then I told Alf why I had held him back, that I had almost insulted the old man by offering to assist him in mounting his horse; and Alf stood there actually trembling at the narrowness of his escape.
"I'm not inclined for sleep," said Alf, looking up from some of the botanical specimens he had collected. "No more am I," said Leo, lifting up his arms and stretching his stalwart frame, which, notwithstanding his youth, had already developed to almost the full proportions of a powerful man. "I vote that we sit up all night," said Benjy, "the sun does it, and why shouldn't we?"
Then, Alf, what you think that gal said? As cool as a cucumber in a spring branch, as she set thar wigglin' her toes in 'er stockin' feet, she said: 'You'd better listen to me, an' I'll fix you so you won't have any rent to pay. That lion's cage, just at it stands, with the door openin' on the sidewalk, would make the dandiest shoe-shop in seven States.
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