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Updated: June 14, 2025
Why did you come to Kansas, anyway, and what did you reckon upon doin'? I guess you ain't goin' to teach school always." The young man flushed under the frankness of the girl's gaze and question, and what appeared like contempt in her opinion of him. Again he became painfully conscious that there was a wide social difference between Miss Conklin and himself.
At every question he appealed to her deferentially for counsel and decision; he reckoned Miss Conklin would know, he relied on her for the facts, and when she spoke he guessed that just settled the matter; her opinion was good enough for him, and so forth.
"You don't seem to understand," replied the lieutenant a little impatiently; "this land belongs to the Indians; it has been secured to them by the United States Government, and you've no business either to fence it in or plant it." "That's all right," answered Conklin, in the same steady, quiet, reasonable tone.
Drew catches it in both his own. Boys, here's where we grab our hosses and beat it." He turned from the rocks in haste. "What d'you mean?" cried Conklin. "Steve, are you goin' to leave us here to finish the job you started?" "Finish it? You fools! Don't you see that Drew and Bard is pals now? If we couldn't finish Bard alone, how'd we make out ag'in' the two of them?
Though Miss Loo Conklin was only seventeen, her figure had all the ripeness of womanhood, and her height a couple of inches above the average helped to make her look older than she was. Her face was more than pretty; it was, in fact, as beautiful as youth, good features, and healthy colouring could make it.
Now at a sign from the coroner, Conklin placed his fat hands on the arms of his chair and slowly drew himself out of its depths, then he crossed to North. The young fellow rose, and turned a pale face toward him. "John," said the sheriff gently, "I have an unpleasant duty to perform." In spite of himself the pallor deepened on North's face.
"It was perfect; the way clear before me; I had dodged through their lines, so to speak, when I gave Conklin the slip, and I could ride straight for Drew and catch him unprepared. Isn't that clear?" "But you didn't?" She was so calm about it that he grew a little angry; she would not look up from the cleaning of the gun. "That's the devil of it; I couldn't stay away. I had to come back to you."
The Conklin children were never sent to the public schools, but had a governess, yet Mortimer Conklin, who was always alert for the call, could not understand why the people never summoned him to any office of honour or trust.
He was rather glad of this; it saved him importunate glances and words, and the propinquity of girlish forms, which had been more trying still. But what was the cause of the change? It was evident that the girls regarded him as belonging to Miss Conklin. He disliked the assumption; his caution took alarm; he would be more careful in future.
Private Conklin was a convalescent and should have been tenderly treated. "Ho! "said Private Conklin. "There's another bloomin' orf'cer da- ed." The bucket shot from under him, and his eyes filled with a smithyful of sparks. A tall man in a blue-gray bedgown was regarding him with deep disfavour. "You ought to take shame for yourself, Conky! Orf'cer? bloomin' orf'cer?
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