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After these experiments, the cold atmosphere drove us all into the house, with the keenest appetites for supper. It did one's heart good to see the great fires that were kindled in the parlor and bar-room, especially the latter, where the fireplace was built of rough stone, and might have contained the trunk of an old tree for a backlog.
They elbowed their way across the room, Miss Hitchcock rather ostentatiously drawing up her skirts and threading her way among the pools of the dirty floor. The occupants of the bar-room, however, gave the strangers only slight attention. The heavy atmosphere of smoke and beer, heated to the boiling point by the afternoon sun, seemed to have soddened their senses.
This conversation had occurred in a quiet corner of the bar-room of the Saints' Repose. The first few sentences had not been heard by the others present; but Shon's last speech, delivered in a ringing tone, drew the miners to their feet, in expectation of seeing shots exchanged at once. The code required satisfaction, immediate and decisive.
Annoyed but not alarmed, as it seemed probable that the missing man had fallen in a drunken sleep in some hidden shadows, he returned to the house, when it occurred to him that Byers might have sought the bar-room for some liquor. But he was still more surprised when the barkeeper volunteered the information that he had seen Mr. Byers hurriedly pass down the side veranda into the highroad.
"Why, I knew I shouldn't be able to sleep, I was so mad at you " "Oh!" "And I dropped into the hotel bar-room for a nightcap, for something to make me sleep." "Yes, yes!" she urged eagerly. "I took what wouldn't have touched a man that was in the habit of it." "Poor Bartley!" "And the first thing I knew I had got too much. I was drunk, wild drunk," he said with magnanimous frankness.
Near sunset of a long day Jonathan strolled down the sandy, well-trodden path toward Metzar's inn. He did not drink, and consequently seldom visited the rude, dark, ill-smelling bar-room. When occasion demanded his presence there, he was evidently not welcome.
Who has not seen the rudeness of a company of men, assembled perhaps in a bar-room with their hats on; and also witnessed the more decent behavior of another similar group, assembled in similar circumstances, without perceiving at once a connection between the hats and the rudeness of the one company, as well as between the more orderly behavior and the uncovered heads of the other?
She broke off suddenly and, without looking again at Janice, mounted the steps with her broom and disappeared inside the house. Janice, heartsick and almost in tears, was turning away when a figure appeared from around the corner of the tavern from the direction of the bar-room, in fact. But Frank Bowman's smiling, ruddy face displayed no sign of his having sampled Lem Parraday's bar goods.
"Yes," said Sylvia, in a low voice. "I say eight out of ten. Estimates would differ. Some doctors would say seven out of ten and some actual investigations have shown nine out of ten. And understand me, I don't mean bar-room loafers and roustabouts. I mean your brothers, if you have any, your cousins, your best friends, the men who came to make love to you, and whom you thought of marrying.
Tims knew very well how it was with the poor fellow, but he had too much good taste to refer to it. It was of this bar-room squabble Ginsling spake when he said he "owed him a debt which he was determined to pay back to him with interest."
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