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"Ef you're bettin' on that, Mart," quickly interposed Moose Jones, "I've got some dust from my Golconda claim that's lyin' round loose at the Miners and Merchants Bank, an' five hundred of it says that you're well, seem' as there's ladies present, it says you're mistaken about Baldy's sperit.
The latter said, "I seen Baldy's sheep yesterday going about in mobs, and nobody to look after them." Then the three men went to the deserted hut. Everything in it seemed undisturbed. The dog was watching at the door, and they told him to seek Baldy.
The Big Man always spoke pleasantly to the dogs, and had won Baldy's approval by not interfering as did the Woman in Kennel affairs; and the malamute the Yellow Peril, as the Woman had named him was plainly antagonistic to the Racers, at whom he growled with much enthusiasm.
Not many days after Baldy's accident in furling sails in this same frenzied manner, under the stimulus of a shouting officer a seaman fell from the main-royal-yard of an English line-of-battle ship near us, and buried his ankle-bones in the deck, leaving two indentations there, as if scooped out by a carpenter's gouge.
Luckily for Baldy's matrimonial plans, the parson had been in Dry Bottom when the rider arrived, and he readily consented as he intended to pass through Lazette anyway to carry Baldy's license to him and perform the ceremony. "Odd, ain't it?" remarked the parson, after he had concluded. "That's a queer angle," repeated Dakota. "You got the license?" he inquired softly. "Mebbe you've lost it."
He swayed on his horse; had he been on foot, the earth would have risen and conquered him; but in the saddle he was a master of equilibrium, and laughed at whisky, and despised the centre of gravity. Webb turned in his saddle at the signal. "If I was you," came Baldy's strident and perverting tones, "I'd be king!"
"Then I'll take the big gander," spoke up Baldy Pallen, one of the disappointed applicants for Stumpy. "He knows as much as any dawg ever lived." "Yes, I reckon he kin teach ye a heap, Baldy!" agreed the Boss. A laugh went round at Baldy's expense. Then for a few seconds there were no more applications. "No one seems to want poor Butters and Bones!" laughed the Boy.
It was here that Jemima's unfitness for work with experts began to manifest itself; as well as the unusual tenacity of purpose that seemed either perseverance or perversity depending upon whether you looked at the matter from Baldy's standpoint or from hers.
In the Rises the land was being subdivided and fenced with stone walls, and there was a chance that Baldy's grave might be discovered if one of the surveyed lines ran near it, for the stonewallers picked up the rocks as near as possible to the wall they were building, and usually to about the distance of one chain on each side of it.
As a concession to the Woman's fondness for Jemima, rather than to her training, "Scotty" decided to let her go with them; and to her great delight, and to Baldy's unbarkable dismay, for Baldy had but little regard for ambitious females, she was placed in the wheel with him.
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