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He declined to engage in conversation, accepted a proffer of tobacco with a silent, hostile grunt and relapsed into a long silence that lasted till his shift was ended. "Hate to have y'u leave, old man. Y'u're so darned good company I'll ce'tainly pine for you," the foreman suggested, with sarcasm, when the old man rolled up in his blankets preparatory to falling asleep immediately.
"I didn't say that, ma'am; but mebbe I did imply they wouldn't return that particular box, when they found what was in it. I shouldn't blame them if they didn't." "I should. Very much. This merely shows you don't understand us at all, Mr. Gordon." "I wish I had that box. It ce'tainly disarranges my plans to have it gone," he said irritably. "I assure you I didn't take it."
"I don't lay it to you, though it would ce'tainly be to your advantage to take it," he laughed, already mollified. "Will you please explain that?" "All my claims of title to this land grant are in that box, Miss Valdés," he remarked placidly, as if it were a matter of no consequence. She went white at his words. "And it is lost probably in the hands of my people. We must get it back."
"You will sit down?" Carelessly, almost indolently, she put the question, her raised eyebrows indicating a chair with perfunctory hospitality. He had not meant to sit, had expected only to gloat a few minutes over her despair; but this situation called for more deliberation. He had yet to establish the mastery his vanity demanded. Therefore he took a chair. "This is ce'tainly an unexpected honor.
Naked as that of Father Adam, his splendid body was glowing with the bath and the exercise. "He's ce'tainly the worst chump ever, Alec. Had me in sight all the way down to the creek, but waited till I wasn't moving. Reckon he was nervous. Anyhow, he waited just one-tenth of a second too late. Shot just as I leaned forward for my dive. He gave me a free hair-cut though."
Apparently he did not greatly care whether his foe caught the drift of it or not, for occasionally his voice lifted enough so that scraps of sentences reached the man lounging on the bed. " close to two hundred head by the Mimbres Pass the boys are ce'tainly pushing the drive out of danger by midnight wait for the signal before you turn him loose " "So-long, Mr. Keller.
"Cyarpets used to begin with a C in my spelling-book, but saddles got off right foot fust with a S," suggested Mac amiably. "He was ce'tainly trying to tree his saddle among the C's. He was looking awful loving at a Turkish rug. Reckon he thought it was a saddle-blanket," derided Denver cheerfully. "Huh! Y'u're awful smart, Denver," retaliated Reddy, his complexion matching his hair.
Yeager met Harrison swaggering up the gravel walk toward the house. A malevolent gleam lit in the cold black eyes of the bully. "How you feeling, young fella?" "A hundred and eighty years old," answered the cowpuncher promptly with a grin. "Every time I open my mouth my face cracks. You ce'tainly did give me a proper trimming. I don't know sic-'em about this scientific fight game."
"She ce'tainly rides herd on that machine like a champeen," admitted Soapy. "I reckon I'll drift over to the Lazy D with you to look after yore remains, Tex, when the lightning hits you." Miss Messiter swung the automobile round in a swift circle, came to an abrupt halt in front of the hotel, and alighted without delay.
I've been famished to see Curly Haid again." "And to know that everything is going to come out all right and that we love each other." "That's right good hearing and most ce'tainly true on my side of it. But how do you happen to know it so sure?" he laughed gayly. "Why, your letter, Bucky. It was the dearest letter. I love it."
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