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You can make good here and damn it, you will!" "I wish I was as sure of that as you seem to be," Ford muttered uneasily, and turned away. Mason's easy chuckle followed him, and Ford swung about and faced him again. "I haven't made any cast-iron promise " "Did I ask you to make any?" Mason's voice sharpened. "But Lordy me, Ches! How do you know I " "I know. That's enough."
I see three Chinamen an' Ches stretched out in a heap, Ches still huggin' the big one he had picked out first. I carried the two of 'em upstairs still locked together, an' laid 'em on the porch. As I did so, Ches opened his eyes an' smiled weakly, ail sez to me most beseechful, "Gi' me the ball, gi' me the ball, an' let Hodge an' Roger throw me over the line. It's no use tryin' to buck through."
'Baby-Devil that you are, what has the man done to you? 'He won't go home. 'What is that to you? 'He gives me a 'apenny to pelt him home if I ketches him out too late, says the boy. And then chants, like a little savage, half stumbling and half dancing among the rags and laces of his dilapidated boots: 'Widdy widdy wen! I ket ches Im out ar ter ten, Widdy widdy wy!
He was going to blow in to the Double Cross some time before he slept that night, and have a talk with Ches. He had a pint of fairly good whisky in his pocket, in case he felt the need of a little on the way, and beyond those two satisfactory certainties he did not attempt to reason.
And there had been a season of grinding days and anxious, black nights between, when the one problem, to Ford, consisted of getting Ches Mason out of the wild land where they wandered, and getting him out alive. The problem Ford solved and at the solution men wondered.
I backed off an' then I looked at him. He looked about as hard to get by as a toadstool. "Now, Ches, I don't want to have your blood on my head," I sez, "an if you've just been jokin', why say so." But no, nothin' would do but I must run him down. I never won much of a reputation for bein' slow, an' I weigh one ninety when I'm ganted down to workin' trim. I took a full breath an' sailed into him.
"I shall be delighted to do it for you, Red, as you know. So will Martha. We " "Thanks immensely. I want Ches of course, and Jim Macauley's coming. The rest are M, D.'s. I must be off." He would have been off, without doubt, in an instant more, for he was half out of the door as he spoke, but Winifred Chester flew after him and laid an insistent hand on his coat sleeve. "Red!
It seems that they had an agreement that neither one would propose to the girl without the other's consent, but they had each been makin' gentle-love in their letters to her, while she didn't seem to know which she liked best." "Where'd you learn all this?" sez I. "Oh, I've been askin' all the of miners I've met," sez Ches, "an' at last I found one who knew the whole of it.
Mr. Sprole's hair was prematurely white, and the crow's-feet at the corners of his eyes were not the result of legal worries. "Hullo, Dit," he said jovially. "Hullo, Ches," said Ditmar. "Now you're the very chap I wanted to see. Where have you been keeping yourself lately? Come out to the farm to-night, same of the boys'll be there." Mr.
"Well, it seems that she was a purty square sort of a woman," sez Ches, "but I didn't suppose 'at you'd care much about her. The mine " I groaned. "Well, you fool me," sez Ches, seein' I was in earnest. "The' was a purty florid romance mixed up in it too; but I didn't suppose you was interested in such things, an' I didn't pay much heed to that part of it."
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