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The sheriff glanced from one to the other; and understanding that there might be something intimate and personal in their relation, he said: "I'll just step back into the building, General; when you and Mr. North have finished your talk, you can call me." "Thank you!" said General Herbert, and Conklin withdrew, leaving the two alone. There was an awkward pause as they faced each other.
Do what you want to with them, and remember that you're to get Bard back in town unharmed if possible." Butch Conklin smiled, and the same smile spread grimly from face to face among the gang. Evidently this point had already been elucidated to them by Nash, who now mustered them out of the house and assembled them on their horses in the street below.
So the game, punctuated by kisses, went on, until Miss Loo came in for the fourth time, and stopped again before Bancroft, whereupon Seth Stevens pushed through the crowd of young men, and said: "Miss Loo Conklin! You know the rule is to change after three times."
A week or ten days later, Bancroft came downstairs one morning early and found the ground covered with hoar-frost, though the sun had already warmed the air. Elder Conklin, in his shirt-sleeves, was cleaning his boots by the wood pile. When he had finished with the brush, but not a moment sooner, he put it down near his boarder.
For they did not smile when Priscilla Winthrop began to refer to old Frank Hagan, who came to milk the Conklin cow and curry the Conklin horse, as "François, the man," or to call the girl who did the cooking and general housework "Cosette, the maid," though every one of the dozen other women in town whom "Cosette, the maid" had worked for knew that her name was Fanny Ropes.
Say you'll stay and I'll come down this evening after the old folks have gone to bed, and sit with you. There!" Of course the man yielded to a certain extent, the pleading face upturned to his was too seductive to be denied, but he would not promise more than that he would tell her what had taken place, and consult with her. Shortly after nine o'clock, as usual, Mr. and Mrs. Conklin retired.
Ten minutes afterwards the cavalry crossed the bridge two deep, and wound snake-like towards the corner. With the first files came General Custer, accompanied by half-a-dozen officers, among whom Bancroft recognized the young lieutenant. Singling Morris out, the General rode up to the fence and addressed him with formal politeness: "Mr. Conklin?"
He raised the one hand which he still retained and touched it to his lips. "I am very sorry," said Anthony, "will you forgive me?" And with her eyes large and grave upon him she answered: "I wonder if I can!" Butch Conklin looked up, raising his bandaged head slowly, like a white flag of truce, with a stain of red growing through the cloth.
"Durkin! That's enough of that!" Mr. Daley and Mr. Conklin stepped onto the scene. The instructor and the physical director had approached without a sound of warning, and Penny, Clint and Dreer, the latter exhibiting an evident desire to efface himself, stared in surprise for a moment.
The game's up, boys; the thing that's left is for us to save our hides if we can before them two start after us. If they do start, then God help us all!" He was already in the saddle. "Wait!" called Conklin. "One of 'em's a tenderfoot. The other has left his gun here. What we got to fear from 'em?" And Nash snarled in return: "If there was a chance, don't you think I'd take it?
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