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Updated: May 25, 2025
She ground her teeth together as she regarded the letter with malice glittering in her heavy eyes. He was writing to her, then, the little upstart, that infernal little biscuit-shooter! Shorty, the cook, was rattling the kitchen range. She listened a moment. There was no other sound.
"She teaches my Bobbie his A B C. I'd hate to have Bobbie " "Speak to your papa," said Molly, and held her scholar up on the fence. "Well, I'll be gol-darned," said Taylor, surveying his costume, "if Lin McLean hasn't made a fool of me to-night!" "Where has Tommy got?" said Mrs. Taylor. "Didn't yus see him?" said the biscuit-shooter speaking her first word in all this.
Randerson ran to where Kelso lay, gasping and panting for breath. He knelt beside him. "You talkin' straight, Kelso?" he asked. "Did Masten hire you to put me out of business?" "Sure," whispered Kelso. "Where's Masten stayin'?" "With Chavis in the shack. He's been there right along, except," he finished, with a grim attempt at humor, "when he's been rushin' that biscuit-shooter in Lazette."
"It's worth it," said Lin. "He's welcome to my cash." "What's that you say, Lin McLean?" It was the biscuit-shooter, and she surged to the front. "I'm broke. He's got it. That's all," said Lin, briefly. "Broke! You!" She glared at her athletic young lord, and she uttered a preliminary howl. At that long-lost cry Lusk turned his silly face. "It's my darling Kate," he said. "Why, Kate!"
He still smiled at her. "For what? To be told that I'm pretty?" "And young," Van Lennop supplemented. "I know women who would give a king's ransom to be young and pretty. Isn't that enough to make one person happy?" "And what good will being either ever do me?" she demanded bitterly; "me, a biscuit-shooter!" Her musical voice was almost harsh in its bitterness. She turned upon him fiercely.
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