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Bells Park leaned farther over, and lowered his shrill, garrulous voice to a thin murmur. "Well, I cain't tell you what it is, but I want to give you the right lead. When that gets to goin' on about newcomers in the Blue Mountains fellers like you be look out for storms." "Go on! You're full of stuff again!" Bill gibed, with his hearty laugh.
"'No, she say, 'dis yere basket ain't fo' me. Take it, an' ef you cain't find out who belong to it, eat dis yere lunch yo'self." He paused. Laurie's stunned silence was a sufficient tribute to his eloquence, but Sam had not yet reached his climax. He introduced it now, with fine effect. "Bimeby," he went on unctuously, "I took dat basket back to her.
"Pap's so po' he cain't run me no mo', so I want to git a show somers if I kin, 'taint no diffunce what I'm strong and hearty, and I don't turn my back on no kind of work, hard nur soft." "Do you think you would like to learn the printing business?" "Well, I don't re'ly k'yer a durn what I DO learn, so's I git a chance fur to make my way. I'd jist as soon learn print'n's anything."
"Never mind, dad," she replied. "They cain't marry me." "Daggs said somebody had been talkin' to you. How aboot that?" "Old John Sprague has just gotten back from Grass Valley," said Ellen. "I stopped in to see him. Shore he told me all the village gossip." "Anythin' to interest me?" he queried, darkly. "Yes, dad, I'm afraid a good deal," she said, hesitatingly.
And Clay, he Oh, the po' motherless thing I cain't talk abort it I cain't bear to talk about it." Clay had disappeared from the door; but he came in, now, and the neighbors reverently fell apart and made way for him. He leaned upon the open coffin and let his tears course silently. Then he put out his small hand and smoothed the hair and stroked the dead face lovingly.
Y'u was watched. Y'u was with her. Y'u made up to her. Y'u grabbed her an' kissed her! ... An' I'm heah to say, Nez Perce, thet y'u're a marked man on this range. "'Who saw me? asked Isbel, quiet an' cold. I seen then thet he'd turned white in the face. "'Yu cain't lie out of it, hollered Bruce, wavin' his hands. 'We got y'u daid to rights.
Cain't yeh send it down the flume? Please say yeh will. I'll take the best kind o' keer of it. It sha'n't git a single scratch. "Mr. Sneath he looks at her a minute kinder tender-like, an' I knowed them big eyes o' hern was a-doin' their work. Them big soft baby eyes would 'a' drawed sap outer a dead log. "'Wal, says he, 'we'll see. If Mrs. Sneath's willin' I guess it'll be all right.
I had not ridden two miles, however, before in the boulder-strewn wash of Arroyo Seco I met Jim Starr, one of our men. "Look here," he said to me. "Jed sent me up to look at the Elder Springs, but my hoss has done cast a shoe. Cain't you ride up there?" "I cannot," said I, promptly. "I've been out all night and had no breakfast. But you can have my horse."
Suddenly Jean caught a vague flash of thought, as if he had intercepted the thought of another's mind, and he wondered could his brother Bill know anything about this crooked work alluded to by Blue? Dismissing the conjecture, Jean listened earnestly. "An' if it's true it shore makes this difference we cain't blame all the rustlin' on to Jorth," concluded Blue.
When everybody's a-tellin' him, 'Yo' pap's so kind, yo' pap does everything for you; look like you cain't be good enough to him, he 'bleeged to find some way to shake off all that thankfulness 'at's sech a burden to him.
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