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If I was merried to you I dunno but I'd be a leetle bit jealous o' you. Say, I may be a widder almost any day now. Somebody'll shore kill Danny Calkins 'fore long." "And, according to you, I may be a married man almost any day," I replied, smiling. "But you ain't merried yit." "No, not yet," I answered. "Well, if you git a chanct you take a look at that gal back there in the kebbin."
Fact is, my ears have been pricking up all morning to hear the old bull-whips crack. There were thirty-one men in the train when they went down, and there may be more coming back. It's a train of Ezra Calkins, my adopted father. You see, they know I've been here on special business, and I sent word the other day I was about due to finish it, and they wasn't to go through coming back without me.
There Farnsworth expected to be led. But not at all! Mrs. Calkins ushered him into her own kitchen, where a wash-tub showed what she was doing, where the afternoon sun and sweet September air poured in at the open windows, and where a canary in its cage was singing cheerily. Here Farnsworth was much surprised to see Jim, curled up in Mrs.
Navigator Calkins of the Olympia had soundings taken, and told Commodore Dewey that he could take the ship farther in toward the Spanish fleet. “Take her in, then,” the commodore replied. The ship moved up to within two thousand yards of the Spanish fleet. This brought the smaller guns into effective play. The rain of shell upon the doomed Spaniards was terrific.
Roberts gathered from it that the young man, Mark Calkins, in whom the policeman had tried to interest her, was superior to the rest of the miserable people in the alley, and that they resented it as an insult to themselves; but that, at the same time, the reflected honor of having a "swell" doctor come into their midst, attendant upon one who really belonged to their class, was very great.
Alas for the daughter of nominally Christian parents, living among all the privileges of a cultured Christian society, she did not know what the wanted. Dr. Calkins had one eager listener. If he could have picked out her earnest, wistful eyes among that crowd of upturned faces he would have let old Socrates go, and given himself heart and soul to the leading of this groping soul into the light.
Trustees 1st Ward Charles C. Rogers, Thomas Jones, Jr. 2d Ward Ansel Roberts, Henry K. Raynolds. 3d Ward Amos Townsend, Randall Crawford. 4th Ward David A Dangler, Simson Thorman. 5th Ward B. P. Bower, Joseph Sturges. 6th Ward John Huntington, George W. Calkins. 7th Ward E. S. Willard, Charles Pettingill. 8th Ward William H. Truscott, Joseph Randerson. 9th Ward John Martin, Fredrick W. Pelton. 10th Ward John J. Weideman, George Presley. 11th Ward Edward Russell, Stephen Buhrer.
"I had eight chillen by my two husbands that was real men, and every one of them died, or got killed like a man, or went West like a man exceptin' this thing here, the son of that there Danny Calkins. Why, he's afraid to go coon huntin' at night for fear the cats'll get him. He don't like to melk a keow for fear she'll kick him. He's afraid to court a gal.
Sallie, he knew, was a friend of the shy, golden-haired sister. So one evening he went to call at the Calkins room, with a vague hope of helping indirectly in bringing to pass Mrs. Roberts' desires. To Sallie he made known the wish that Dirk would take his sister to the lecture, and secured from her a promise to help the scheme along, provided it developed.
"Not more'n a hundred," replied the Swede calmly, taking his place at the gun-crevice. "Take it easy, Phil. This will be good target practice. We've got to make an eighty percent kill as they come across the open. This is mighty comfortable compared with the trick they turned on us when they got Calkins, Harris and O'Flynn. I got away in the night."
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