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He was a bar-keeper with a red nose, and as he spoke he took up a place in front of the horses. It was in vain for me to press the coachman. It would have been indecent to do so at such a moment, and something at any rate was due to the position of Crasweller.
This feature of the joke was, in the opinion of its perpetrators, the most amusing feature of all, and it need hardly be said that very little effort was made to disabuse the unbelieving but somewhat over-credulous bar-keeper. The Columbia River is one of the most interesting and remarkable on the continent.
The Dutch bar-keeper leaned across the counter, and tapped him on the arm with a thick, stubby forefinger. "Mister Engelschman, I think you shall best go out of here." "Me? Go out? 'Oo are you gettin' at, Myn'eer Van Dunck?" swaggered W. Keyse. And he slipped one thin, freckled hand ostentatiously under his coat of shoddy summer tweed.
At this moment the bar-keeper recognized him, and sang out in a loud voice: "Look out boys that's Wild Bill you've run against." That settled the matter; for when they heard the name of Wild Bill they turned and beat a hasty retreat out of the doors and windows, and in less time than it takes to tell it, Wild Bill was the only man in the room.
She was as clean and as dainty as a drawing-room; when I looked down her long, gilded saloon, it was like gazing through a splendid tunnel; she had an oil-picture, by some gifted sign-painter, on every stateroom door; she glittered with no end of prism-fringed chandeliers; the clerk's office was elegant, the bar was marvelous, and the bar-keeper had been barbered and upholstered at incredible cost.
As he had expected, Warburton found it hard to get employment. Finally, after doing nothing for two months, he accepted the situation of bar-keeper at one of the city hotels. Julia pleaded hard with him not to go there, for she feared the influence of such a place upon him, but he would listen to no argument. His wife soon began to observe indications of a change for the worse in his character.
The tramp threw a pitying glance of scorn at the pugilistic whisky- seller, as he replied: "Be gorra, ye damned fool, do you think that I'd be after givin' myself away like this if I WAS one?" "In course ye wouldn't," broke in Barney. "Don't be a fool, Jerry, this man is no detective," and Barney fastened the star to the vest which encircled the portly form of the bar-keeper.
"Well, I suppose I can empty the till and lock the safe before going?" Vorse questioned. "No. Keep in front of the bar where you are," the sheriff commanded. "And have everything stolen." "Your bar-keeper will be back presently. He will look after things for you." "You say Burkhardt is locked up?" "Yes." "That will hurt his pride," Vorse laughed.
There was a disturbance some time about the middle of the night. People came along in wagons, as usual, waking up the bar-keeper, whose dreams perpetually ran upon that kind of trouble. Walker, who was wide awake, gathered from the conversation below that the travellers had only halted for drinks, and would immediately resume their way westward with all speed.
The bar-keeper turned quickly upon Ruth, stared at him, and then suddenly burst into a fit of laughter. "Well, I've knowed you two were twins, but damn me if I ever thought I'd be sold like this!" And he again burst into a roar of laughter. "What do you mean?" demanded Ruth savagely. "What do I mean?" returned the barkeeper. "Why, I mean this.
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