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And only the corral kept him from falling. Again Brayley's great sledge-hammer fists shot out, Brayley's eyes glowing redly behind them. Conniston knew that one more blow like the last one, full in the face, and again he would have been beaten by Brayley.
Equally apparently, the man whom they called Bat Truxton was in command of the reclamation work in Rattlesnake Valley, and now with a force of a hundred men was working with an activity even more feverish than Brayley's. During the meal five more men came in, and with a word of rough greeting to their fellows dropped into their chairs and helped themselves deftly.
And to the man upon his left, "Will you kindly pass me the bread?" The man grinned in rare enjoyment, and, since he kept his eyes upon Brayley's glowering face, it was hardly strange that he handed Conniston a plate of stewed prunes instead. "Thank you," Conniston said to him, still ignoring Brayley. "But it was bread I said." "An' I said something!" cut in Brayley, his voice crisp and incisive.
"Boys always rob melon-patches, so I don't see why girls shouldn't. When shall we do it, Mr. McNutt?" "There ain't any moon jest now, an' the nights is dark as blazes. Let's go ternight." "It's a bargain," declared Patsy. "We will come for you in the surrey at ten o'clock, and all drive together to the back of Brayley's yard and take all the melons we want."
Was he a better man intellectually? He had thought he was; now he hesitated long before answering that question. Certainly he had had an education which they had missed. Certainly his intellect had been trained, in a fashion, by great men, by learned university professors. But was it any keener than Brayley's and Toothy's; was it any stronger; was it, after all, any more highly trained?
Seem to be in a hurry!" Conniston and Kent, riding swiftly, side by side, overtook the wagons conveying the three hundred men to the Valley, and, passing them, arrived at Brayley's camp before the men there had quit work for the day. Brayley was more than half expecting them, as Kent had telephoned to the office from Bolton to learn where Conniston was and had told Tommy Garton of his errand.
And, together with the breathless heat of the still afternoon, the ache and dizziness returned to his head where Brayley's gun had struck him; a new and growing nausea told him that a man is not knocked unconscious one day to forget all about it the next.
"I'm very sorry, but even the smartest woman in London can't throw over the Brayley's. Take another box for the second." Lord Holme looked fearfully sulky and lounged out of the room. On the following morning he strode into Lady Holme's boudoir about twelve with a radiant face. "It's all right!" he exclaimed. "Talk of diplomatists! I ought to be an ambassador."
"Well, that does seem comic." "It was glorious. But they'll never know. They'll think the sweeps must have left it when the chimney was last swept. But I suppose you've heard about Lieutenant Brayley's report?" "No, not a word. I went as soon as I was dressed to see how my mother was." "Oh, I heard from Murray.
His voice was harsh, his question a command for an answer. "Who told you?" "I knew there was trouble. I asked about it. Brayley told me." He made no answer. There was nothing for him to say. She had Brayley's account of the fight, she believed it, and Conniston would not let her know that he cared enough to give his own version. "I have not meant to be unkind, Mr.
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