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Why not accept for him? Why not give him a chance? What do you say, McCabe?" "Sure!" says I. "I'm backin' him to qualify." "It might mean," goes on J. Bayard insinuatin', "an opportunity to well, to meet the right girl, you know." Mrs. Hammond draws in her breath sharp and clasps her hands tight.
"I suppose they hate to lose," Bud grinned. "That's it money 's more to 'em than the sport of kings, which is runnin' horses. This bunch, kid belly-ached till Dave took his horse Boise outa the game, and now, by gosh, they're backin' up from my Skeeter, that has been beat more times than he won. "When you pulled him, Jeff!" a mocking voice drawled. "And that was when you wasn't bettin' yourself."
I was making good there, apparently, and the surprise at this caused Captain Warren and the rest to take a new, and no doubt transitory interest in me. And I thought I knew Captain Jed's reason for coming. An interview between us gave me the inkling. Matilda was in Mother's room and Dean and I were together in the dining-room. "Ros," said the captain, suddenly, "you ain't backin' water, are you?"
They're lookin' for trouble, as I told you, an' they'll get it, too, if they don't watch out. We got our tip from the Frisco Water Front Confederation. With them backin' us we'll go some." "You mean you'll... strike?" Saxon asked. He bent his head. "But isn't that what they want you to do? from the way they're acting?" "What's the difference?" Billy shrugged his shoulders, then continued.
I didn't want to soften any toward Dick so I had to keep grittin' my teeth as I watched him, 'cause bluffin' a man like Cast Steel, armed an' ready, was a stirrin' sight, an' Dick looked as if he had the backin' of an army. "Mr.
And I promised her that I would look out for it if I ever wuz a queen, but reminded her that there wuz times too when it came handy, and saved our necks to be protected, and then I finished, gracefully backin' out of her presence.
If you don't buy this colt somebody else will. So I sets on the edge of the porch 'n' waits. It ain't so long till Miss Goodloe comes out again. I gets up 'n' takes off my hat. "'What horse do you wish to buy? she says. "'A big chestnut colt by Calabash, dam Mary Goodloe, I says. 'They tell me you own him. "'Oh, I can't sell him! she says, backin' towards the door.
'Beg your pardon, sir, said a sergeant in charge of the baggage, 'but would you mind backin' a bit till we get the waggons past? 'Certainly, I said. 'You don't happen to have a rocking-horse among your kit, do you? The rattle of our reverse drowned his answer, but I saw his eyes. One of them was blackish-green, about four days old. 'My Son's Wife'
"Brandt an' Metzar, with Legget backin' them, an' the horses go overland to Detroit?" "I calkilate you've hit the mark." "What'll we do?" asked Jonathan. "Wait; that's best. We've no call to hurry. We must know the truth before makin' a move, an' as yet we're only suspicious. This lass'll find out more in a week than we could in a year. But Jack, have a care she don't fall into any snare.
I'll meet them." "Drive them off the place same as if you had a company of soldiers backin' you," said Ladd. "Don't give them an inch. We're in bad, and the bigger bluff we put up the more likely our chance." "Belding, you're an officer of the United States. Mexicans are much impressed by show of authority. I've seen that often in camp," said Thorne.
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