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"In time, Rennie, in time. Th’ Colonel’s thinkin’ out some plans. Don Cazar, he was too lucky at th’ pass." "You’re not goin’ to get back those horses or mules—or what they were packin’," Drew said. "We’ll see, we’ll see." Certainly Shannon’s confidence was in nowise shaken. "Th’ Colonel, he didn’t want to call in Nahata an’ his bucks—now maybe he’ll have to.
“Yet, when the young lady came from boarding-school on a visit, the whole town revived. Our most distinguished ladies—two ‘Excellencies’ and a colonel’s wife—and all the rest following their lead, at once took her up and gave entertainments in her honor. She was the belle of the balls and picnics, and they got up tableaux vivants in aid of distressed governesses.
“Please tell me as quickly as possible what has happened,” demanded Thérèse with trembling eagerness; steadying herself with both hands on the railing before her. “You see it all riz out o’ a little altercation ’twixt him and Colonel Klayton in the colonel’s store. Some says he’d ben drinkin’; others denies it.
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