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The night was hot, and it had been to her a day full of excitement. She had much to think of. Going to the open window, she sat down in a low chair with her arms across the sill. Two men met beneath her window. "Gimme the makings, Slim," one said to the other. While he was shaking the tobacco from the pouch to the paper, Slim spoke. "The boys ought all to be here in another hour, Budd.
First directing Tier to hold on to the painter, he applied his strength to the arms of Mrs. Budd, and, assisted by Rose and Biddy, got her safely into the boat, over its bows. Rose now waited not for assistance, but followed her aunt with a haste that proved fear lent her strength in despite her long fast.
"I've been calkilatin' to myself, Miss Budd," said Abner resignedly, "that when two folks like ez you and me meet together to kinder discuss things that might go so far ez to keep them together, if they hez had anything of that sort in their lives afore, they ought to speak of it confidentially like together."
Budd only gave me one of the cuff-buttons, and I don't know where the others are, and I can't say that I care very much, either. Now are you finished with me?"
Hardly a word was said as the four walked across the bridge and toward a thicket to the right. Neither Budd nor the sergeant asked the nature of the trouble, for either could have guessed what it was. Dave tied his horse and, like Hale, stripped off his coat. The sergeant took charge of Dave's pistol and Budd of Hale's. "All you've got to do is to keep him away from you," said Budd.
That was just his notion! You cannot feel how delightful it is, Rose, to converse with one that thoroughly understands such subjects! My poor Mr. Budd did, indeed, denounce roads-instead, at all times calling them `savage." "Savage, aunt," put in Rose, hoping to stop the good relict by her own interposition "that is a strange word to apply to an anchorage!"
When Holmes had got all the twelve gems stowed away in his right-hand coat-pocket, the Earl spoke of writing out a check for the twenty thousand pounds' reward he had promised him, but Holmes unexpectedly demurred, saying he would wait until Billie Budd was captured first, instead of grabbing feverishly for the coin, as I naturally thought he would.
I had been to Budd's myself. "Have you ever been there?" I asked of the dreamer. "I've been in his store, in the front part, where the candy is and if you go 'round when he's freezing ice cream, he'll give you a whole ten-cent dish just for turning the freezer; but Pop won't let me stay out of school to do it, and Budd don't freeze Saturdays. But some day " he paused.
Presently Beady Jones and Braverman bustled in, carrying the packs. Then Budd jumped up and ran to them. He returned to the table, carrying a demijohn, which he banged upon the table. "Whisky!" exclaimed Kells. "Take that away. We can't drink and gamble." "Watch me!" replied Blicky. "Let them drink, Kells," declared Gulden. "We'll get their dust quicker. Then we can have our game."
After that, it won't take us long." "Not long," the fat man answered uneasily. There was a silence. Slim broke it. "We got to do it, o' course." "Looks like. Got to make an example. No peace on the range till we do." "I hate like sin to, Budd. He's so damn game." "Me, too. But we got to. No two ways about it." "I reckon. Brill says so. But I wish the cuss had a chanct to fight for his life."
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