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"I knew you'd see reason," grinned Silent. "Jest one minute," said Cumberland. "Kate, is Lee Haines one of Silent's gang?" "He is." "An' Dan put him behind the bars?" "Yes." "If Dan takes him out again the boy'll be outlawed, Kate." "Cumberland," broke in Kilduff savagely, "here's your call to stop thinkin' about Whistlin' Dan an' begin figgerin' for yourself."
It was now three days since Hugh had gladdened Aunt Eunice's cottage with the sunshine of his presence, and when she awoke that morning, and saw how high the snow was piled around her door, she said to herself, "The boy'll be here directly to know if I'm alive," and this accounted for the round deal table drawn so cozily before the blazing fire, and looking so inviting with its two plates and cups, one a fancy china affair, sacredly kept for Hugh, whose coffee always tasted better when sipped from its gilded side, the lightest of egg bread was steaming on the hearth, the tenderest of steak was broiling on the griddle, while the odor of the coffee boiling on the coals came tantalizingly to Hugh's olfactories as Aunt Eunice opened the door, saying pleasantly: "I told 'em so.
"Yep," said the barkeeper, and he set the bottle down. As the lad went away from the window, with a great load lifted from his heart, the barkeeper put his head out of the opening, looked after him, smiled, and said, "That boy'll do."
The young ones are growin' up, and the teacher at the academy says they beat the devil on book learnin'! The boy'll make a smart man, pretty soon, and bring good wages home to his mother. The girls are handsome enough to pick up husbands as soon as they've fully feathered out, so it won't be long afore they're all on the up grade.
Then all of a sudden the laugh died out, and the man's dark face was serious, as he said, slowly, "The boy'll have to watch him, though. It'll sure be war from this on; the worst kind of war." "Daddy, what do you think Wash would have done to me, if Young Matt had not been there?" That metallic ring was in Jim's voice, now, as he replied, "Wash Gibbs ought to knowed better than to done that.
Brady's cheek, but she preserved her lofty manner. "Ah yes, thank ye, Sisther, as comfortable as I could expect in a place like this. Of course I niver thought it's here' I'd be, but it's on'y for a short time, thanks be to God! My little boy'll be comin' home from America soon to take me out of it." "Why, that's good news!" cried the Sister cheerfully.
She, however, escaped with only numerous hand-shakings. "He is, indeed, to be congratulated, votre fils, madame," the Marquis said, on being presented. "And the young lady, too, me dear sir. A better husband than me boy'll make there is not in England though his old mother says it." Grandmamma behaved with the stiffest decorum.
"Them hunters is the wicked boys," he broke forth again, for he suffered from a constitutional plethora of speech. "But wait till they get to cutting up iv jinks and rowin' 'round. He's the boy'll fix 'em. 'Tis him that'll put the fear of God in their rotten black hearts. Look at that hunter iv mine, Horner.
Forest'll get us some sandwiches. He says he'll come and load for you. His boy and the garden boy'll do for beaters. The Squire stood glumly hesitating, but with his eye on his son. 'Look here, said Desmond, 'I've only got two days! Elizabeth could not help watching the boy his look at his father, the physical beauty and perfection of him.
"Hah!" ejaculated the old gardener, wiping his mouth in anticipation. "It's my b'lief, Peter, as that there boy'll turn out either a reg'lar good un, or 'bout the wust as ever stepped." "Now, sir!" said the doctor, as he closed the door of the library, and then with a stern look at the grimy object before him took a seat opposite Helen. "What have you to say for yourself!"
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