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The Greaser foreman was drunk yesterday, and his ignorant men made a mistake. Sorry if the blast bothered you." "Chase, I reckon that's the first of your blasts I was ever glad to hear," replied Belding, in a way that made Chase look blank. "So? Well, I'm glad you're glad," he went on, evidently puzzled. "I was a little worried you've always been so touchy we never could get together.
The idea of riding a horse in the open desert, with a dangerous duty to perform, seemed to strike him with an appealing force. Something within him went out to the cowboys, to this blunt and kind Belding. He was afraid to meet the girl.
"Oh, well, it doesn't pay to split hairs with you," declared her father, pinching a warm cheek until it was rosier than ever. "But what's the big idea, as Chet himself would say?" "Why, now, Pa Belding " "Out with it! What do you want me to do?" "I I thought if you'd make Chet pay only half of the fifty dollars, that perhaps you lost " "Well?" he growled, in apparent indignation still.
The sheriff, and his bloodhounds, and his posse departed unnoticed by the rejoicing party in the camp of the Central High girls. The girls and boys made a hero out of Professor Dimp. And he was not a bad sort after all as they found out upon closer acquaintance. "We shall not let Professor Dimp hide his light under a bushel," cried Laura Belding, otherwise Mother Wit.
While he was eating his supper, with appetite rapidly returning to normal, Ladd and Jim came in, bowing their tall heads to enter the door. Their friendly advances were singularly welcome to Gale, but he was still backward. He allowed himself to show that he was glad to see them, and he listened. Jim Lash had heard from Belding the result of the mauling given to Rojas by Dick.
I'm not working for myself, or even in a definite way for my shareholders, but I'm trying to adapt the forces and resources of nature to the use of man. Don't you see?" "I think so." Belding began to perceive that he was caught up as a small unit in a great forward movement that encompassed not only himself but thousands of others. "So once again, thank you for what you said.
Belding came home with the news that he was to drive out that afternoon. Alice sat in the shade by the front porch for an hour, waiting to see him pass, and when at last his carriage appeared, she rose and waved her handkerchief by way of greeting and congratulation. He bowed as he went by, and Alice retired to her own room, where she used her handkerchief once more to dry her wet and happy eyes.
The latest of this work was new and surprising to Belding, all because he was a busy man, with no chance to hear village gossip. When he was directed to the headquarters of the Chase Mining Company he went thither in slow-growing wrath. He came to a big tent with a huge canvas fly stretched in front, under which sat several men in their shirt sleeves. They were talking and smoking.
She'll refuse to marry you and you'll have a hard job to break her down, as hard as the one you just rode in off of. I think I know you, too, or I wouldn't be saying " "Belding, what 're you hinting at?" demanded Gale. "Do you dare insinuate that that if the thing were true it'd make any difference to me?" "Aw, come now, Dick; I couldn't mean that. I'm only awkward at saying things.
"Not to mention it to mother, not to pack a gun down there, and never, never tell Dick." Belding was silent. Seldom did he make promises readily. "Nell, sure something must have come off, for you to ask all that." "If you don't promise I'll never tell, that's all," she declared, firmly. Belding deliberated a little longer. He knew the girl.
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