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He's too many for ME, that boy is. Seems he's been plannin' this runnin' away bus'ness for more 'n a month; been doin' errands and odd jobs 'round town and savin' up his money on purpose. Says he won't go back to school again, no matter what we do to him, and that he's goin' to git into the Navy if it takes ten year. He says he'll run away again fust chance he gits, and he WILL, too.
It had the effect of bringing the rancher back to his seat with a drunken lurch. "Eh?" he queried, blinking nervously. "What did he come for?" Jacky persisted. The girl could be relentless even with her uncle. "Lablache oh er talk bus bus'ness, child bus'ness," and he attempted to get up from his chair again. But Jacky would not let him go. "Wait a moment, uncle dear, I want to talk to you.
"He could have slain poor Fred in some other way, but do you believe he has done so?" "Younker," replied the sympathetic guide, "I ain't the one to trifle with your feelings, fur you don't feel much worse than me, but I own up that I don't know anything more 'bout this bus'ness than you.
I can't help saying that, but it mustn't be furgot that the whole bus'ness may be meant to close our eyes, and that he's got some deviltry in mind back of it all, that neither of you younkers has thought about." "Have you thought of it?" The hunter would not reply to this direct question except to say: "We'll have to wait and see."
"Oh, cat's foot!" he exclaimed one day, after hunting everywhere for his Sunday tie, and at length finding it in his bureau drawer. "I can't git used to this everlastin' spruced-up bus'ness. Way it used to be, this necktie was likely to be 'most anywheres 'round, and if I looked out in the kitchen or under the sofy, I was jest as likely to find it. But now everything's got a place and is in it."
Ah nebber tried it, fer Massa Donaldson hed no bus'ness ober in dis kintry, but Ah's heerd 'em talk down ter Saint Louee. Trouble is, sah, we's got started in de wrong place dar's plenty watah t'other side dis yere bar." "Who told you the best way to find Shrunk?" His eyes widened and searched my face, evidently still somewhat suspicious of any white man. "A nigger down Saint Louee way, sah.
I walked up to the bar and leaned on it familiar like, and asked Pete if he didn't think he'd made enough money in ruining other folks to quit the bus'ness. He showed he didn't know what I meant by the strange question. I then said I'd stopped the foolery for good, and give him my opinion of him as the worst wretch in town.
Then Aun' Jinkey prepared to compose her nerves by another smoke. "Hand me up a coal for my pipe, also," said Scoville, "and then we'll have a sociable time." "I des feared onsosh'ble times dis eb'nin'," remarked Aun' Jinkey. "If you knew how my bones ached, you'd help me pass the time." "Reck'n mine ache, too, 'fo' I troo wid dis bus'ness."
He has been through this region so often and knows these wild people so thoroughly that he could not commit a blunder like that. It seems to me," added the captain a few minutes, later, "that he is absent a long time." "It's tough," remarked Ruggles, "that things are fixed so we won't have a chance to take any hand in this bus'ness."
Then he got up and took another observation. At last he goes back to the chair, stretches himself out, puts his feet against the stove, pulls at the cigar, and says he: "'I was cal'latin' to go downtown on a bus'ness trip, same's I did last night. But I guess, he says 'I guess I won't. It's too comfort'ble here, says he.
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