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Updated: May 12, 2025
This gentleman here is the coroner; we've got the body down at the ranch house, and we may want to suppeenie you for the inquest." "Glad to meet you, sir," said Creede politely. "Well, all they was to it was this: when I rode in there and see that dam' Mexican standin' up on a ledge with his eyes bulgin' out, I says, 'What in hell I didn't know you was here! And he says, 'Oh, that's all right."
He had a couple of quiet games goin', and they was one fellow among that lot of grubbin' prairie dogs that had heerd tell that cows had horns. He was the wisest of the bunch on the cattle business. So I stowed away my consolation, and made out to forget comparing Colorado with God's country. About three times a week this Irishman I told you of name O'Toole comes bulgin' in.
I can see him standing at the door there wi' a big hat an a beard like straw an a check coat wi' great bulgin pockets." He stopped in amazement, seeing the sudden beauty of her eyes and cheeks. "That's it," she said, leaning towards him. "Oh, that's it!" She closed her eyes a moment, her small lips trembling. Then she opened them with a long breath.
"'My grandfather comes plenty near forfeitin' then good opinions of the Gen'ral, though. It's the next day, an' that ancestor of mine an' the Gen'ral is recoverin' themse'fs from the conversation of the night before with a glass or two of tanzy bitters, when a lady, who descends on the boat at Madison, comes bulgin' into the gents' cabin.
But she sort o' balanced herself unto 'em, the best she could, and put her hands round her waist it wuzn't much bigger than a pipe-stem, and sort o' bulgin' out both ways, above and below, some like a string tied tight round a piller, and says she complacently, "I don't believe there will be a dress shown to-night more stylish and beautiful than mine."
But Ettinger's shrewd eyes were sane enough. "We go right up to your lake," he cried shrilly. "We git busy with some engineers an' pick an' shovel men. We blow the side of a hill all to hell an' what happens? The water just comes a bulgin' down into Dry Creek, an' all we got to do down in the valley, twenty, thirty miles away, is dig ditches an' watch our land turn into a gold mine!"
Jedge Buzzard, he riz en skimmed long fer ter see dat de race wuz runned fa'r. W'en Brer Rabbit got ter de fus' mile-pos' wunner de Tarrypin chilluns crawl out de woods, he did, en make fer de place. Brer Rabbit, he holler out: "'Whar is you, Brer Tarrypin? "'Yer I come a bulgin', sez de Tarrypin, sezee.
And they let him go, with an apology that Colonel Ward treated with perfectly insulting contempt. Cap'n Sproul faced him on the street outside the prison, standing prudently at guard, for he perfectly realized that just at that moment Colonel Gideon Ward had all the attributes of a lunatic. "You can see it bulgin' all over me," said the Cap'n, "all tied up in bundles.
"Columbine is my daughter!" replied the hunter. "Ah!" breathed Belllounds. "She loves Wils Moore, who's as white a man as you are black." Across the pallid, convulsed face of Belllounds spread a slow, dull crimson. "Aha, Buster Jack! I struck home there," flashed Wade, his voice rising. "That gives your eyes the ugly look.... I hate them lyin', bulgin' eyes of yours.
But unless I do find out not another bit of help will this colony get from Earth! No more tools! No more machinery that ye can't have worn out! No more provisions that ye should be raisin' for yourselves! Your cold-storage plant should be bulgin' with food! It's near empty! It will not be refilled! And even the ship that we pay to have stop here every three months, for mail no ship!"
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