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This store ain't worth a cent now. The Hudson's Bay Company'll come along with the redcoats, and they'll set up a nice little Sunday-school business here for what they call 'agricultural settlers. There'll be a railway, and the Yankees'll send up their marshals to work with the redcoats on the border, and " "And the days of smuggling will be over," put in the girl in a low voice.
This store ain't worth a cent now. The Hudson's Bay Company'll come along with the redcoats, and they'll set up a nice little Sunday-school business here for what they call 'agricultural settlers. There'll be a railway, and the Yankees'll send up their marshals to work with the redcoats on the border, and " "And the days of smuggling will be over," put in the girl in a low voice.
'No, worse luck, not without further evidence; but the company'll probably go in for a big hunt, an' that may be the saving of him. This latter piece of news gave Dick further cause for agitation, and his mother's distress grew with his deepening melancholy.
'And you called yourself my friend? 'I'm nobody's friend but my own in an affair of this kind. If you'd been in my place you'd have done just the same. 'I wouldn't! I couldn't have been such a mean creature! Every man and woman in the company'll cry shame on you. 'Don't deafen me with your nonsense! If you played the part badly, I suppose some one else must take it.
"Not his fault," the Paratime Police agent said. "I'm the one the Company'll be sore at, but I'd rather have them down on me rather than old Tortha Karf. Well, sit on the lid till I get back," he told both of them. "We'll need some kind of a story for the locals.
The new railroad company'll put up bonds, and so'll the loggin' company if you say so."
That's how I figger it out," replied Hopalong quietly. "Yore a reg'lar 'tective, ain't yu?" Thirsty asked ironically. "I've got common sense," responded Hopalong. "Yu has? Yu better tell th' rest that, too," replied Thirsty. "I know yu shot Harris, an' yu can't get out of it by makin' funny remarks. Anyhow, yu won't be much loss, an' th' stage company'll feel better, too." "Shoo!
He dropped the hand from her shoulder and moved slowly away, but when he reached the door he stopped and spoke again, without turning to look at her. "The Realty Company'll go right on just the same," he said. "It's like it's like sand, mamma. It puts me in mind of chuldern playin' in a sand-pile.
"Oh, we'll have you sayin' worse things than 'damn' when we get you out on the front with a goddam German aeroplane droppin' bombs on you," said the top sergeant, slapping him on the back. "Now, I want you five men to look out for the grub." Fuselli's chest swelled. "The company'll be in charge of the corporal for the night. Sergeant Jones and I have got to be with the lieutenant, understand?"
"And some non-Company people have gotten hold of it, and so had Interworld News. Why, even some of my people are talking about ecological side-effects. You know what will happen when a story like that gets back to Terra. The conservation fanatics will get hold of it, and the Company'll be criticized." That would hurt Leonard. He identified himself with the Company.
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