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'Then the writer knew it by tradition. The moment Charley's logical faculty was excited his perception was impartial. 'Besides, he went on, it does not follow that the sword had really never been drawn before. Mr Close even may have done so, for his admiration was apparently quite as much for weapons themselves as for their history.
To be sure, Charley's salary would soon bring him in enough money to pay for such a battery; but all of his income, or practically all of it, Charley knew, he must give to his father. How he should get around the difficulty, Charley could not see. As they trudged on, he talked the matter over with Lew again. Lew seemed unduly light-hearted over the matter, and even smiled about it.
Here Neil said something which I could not catch, and then Charley's voice went on: "The youngster takes naturally to the water, and if, when he finishes high school, he takes a course in navigation and goes deep sea, I see no reason why he shouldn't rise to be master of the finest and biggest ship afloat."
Edith invariably lost her temper nothing earthly ever disturbed Charley's. Presently, in anger and disgust, Miss Darrell jumped up from the piano-stool, and protested she would play no more. "To be told I sing Kathleen Mavourneen flat, and that the way I hold my elbows when I play Thalberg's 'Home, is frightful to behold, I will not stand!
If they didn't like her staying, she said, they could yank her up to the next telegraph-pole to Charley's and then she asked 'em, kind of cool and cutting, if they didn't think hanging a lady would give a nice name to the town!
When Squaw Charley's hunger had disappeared before the enforced, and rather nervous, generosity of Colonel Cummings' black cook, and Lieutenant Fraser had left him, he hurried away from headquarters. Making his way to the sentry line north of Brannon, he gathered firewood along the Missouri until dark. The lantern had been out for an hour in the cottonwood shack. Father and daughters were asleep.
They walked in silence for some time, and at last Billy said, 'a propos' of nothing: "Fairing hasn't a red cent." "You have a perambulating mind, Billy," said Charley, and bowed to a young clergyman approaching them from the opposite direction. "What does that mean?" remarked Billy, and said "Hello!" to the young clergyman, and did not wait for Charley's answer. The Rev.
I fired; it leapt high in the air, and rolled over close to the trunk of the tree. "Well done, Dick!" cried Charley. "I hit it, but my bullet missed the vital part." The leopard was perfectly dead. We easily found the two bullet-holes. Charley's bullet had struck the edge of a bone, and been slightly deflected. Had he been alone, the result might have been fatal to him.
In four days, then, we sail. Meantime, old fellow, if you'll drop in and speak a word to mother and Trix, you will be doing a friendly deed. Poor souls! they are awfully cut up." Captain Hammond started to his feet. He seized Charley's hand in a grip of iron. "Old boy!" he began he never got further.
It was plain, too, that the dogs were no match for them, and then the thought came to him that he had no firearms and no means of protecting himself against them. A Cold sweat broke out upon Charley's body. His knees went limp. He felt like one receiving the sentence of death. He was sure that he would presently be torn to pieces by the savage beasts.
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