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Sally'll fix you up with a blanket or two, an' the grub ain't bad. You see, I run a boardin'-house fer the boys leastways, Sally does." And Tresler adopted the suggestion. He had no choice but to do so. Anyway, he was quite satisfied with the arrangement. He had entered the life of the prairie and was more than willing to adopt its ways and its people.
The lines deepened a little in Gorham's face. "What is his name?" he asked. "Buckner, sir Ralph Buckner." "H'm! And why do you think he intends to try to make trouble for me?" "Well, sir, you see it's this way. This feller come to the same boardin'-house where I live, but I didn't pay no attention to him 'til I see him playin' pool in the saloon opposite.
That's the next thing for you to say, my girl." They sat there in the gathering dusk and talked. The captain was uproariously gay. He could scarcely keep still, but whistled and drummed tunes upon the chair arm with his fingers. Thankful was more subdued and quiet, but she was happy, completely happy at last. "This'll be some boardin'-house, this one of ours," declared the captain.
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