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Coombs had gone into the fur raisin' business for keeps, and I was to have an interest in the game. He had an agreement all written out that both o' us signed before a justice, which fixed things up. Half the proceeds o' the fur farm was to come to me, while I stayed here to look after things.
Indeed, he is superb. What a magnificent horse! How still he stands! Why, he seems carved in stone." "Let me look?" said Dorothy Coombs, eagerly. Helen gave her the glass. "You can look, Dot, but that's all. He's mine. I saw him first."
He had small personal acquaintance with Polpier itself: the steepness of the coombs in which it lay was penible to a man of his weight: yet, albeit by hearsay, he knew the inner workings of the small town, being interested in the circumstances of all his neighbours, vividly charitable towards them, and at the same time no fool in judging.
If Old Hank Coombs were only here now I'd be glad to turn the whole business over to him, and play second fiddle." "But some time between dark and morning these three rascals went in here, and surprised the hermit of Echo Cave is that it, Frank?" "It covers the case all right," came the reply. "Say, do you think they are up there yet?" asked the Kentucky lad, in an anxious tone.
I shall no doubt find some one to give me twenty then." Coombs stared, surveyed me ironically from head to heel again, and, after offering five dollars, said very reluctantly: "Seven-fifty, and it's sinful extravagance. Put the horse in that stable and don't give him too much chop. Then carry in those stove billets, and see if Mrs. Coombs wants anything to get supper ready."
Steve, remember what you heard your father say about the man who once started to make his home on Catamount Island; but the flood came and upset his plans?" "Say, do you mean Wesley Coombs?" demanded Steve, quickly. "Yes," replied Max. "Well, you got things a little mixed there.
I 've simply come to myself; I 'm convinced we 're doing wrong." "But you will wait until morning? until I have talked with Coombs?" I asked anxiously. "Yes," after an instant's hesitation. "There is nothing else I can do." The Texan got noisily to his feet, and swaggered across the floor. "If you all hav' got through yer whisperin'," he said roughly, "I reckon Sally 's got ther grub laid out."
Johnny Coombs found him there on the third day, and laughed at his sour expression. "Gettin' impatient?" "Just wondering when we'll reach the Belt, is all," Tom said. Johnny chuckled. "Hope you're not holdin' your breath. We've already been in the Belt for the last forty-eight hours." "Then where are all the asteroids?" Tom said. "Oh, they're here. You just won't see many of them.
We went back for family prayers, when Coombs read a chapter of Scripture; and he read passably well, though, for some reason, his tone jarred on me, while Harry fidgeted uneasily. Now I think it would jar even more forcibly. A hard life face to face with wild nature, among fearless, honest men, either by land or sea, induces, among other things, a becoming humility.
"You see, I wanted to have my four chums on hand at the time you opened the door, and secured poor old Wesley Coombs. We can get back there in a jiffy, and they'd be ever so much obliged for the chance of seeing how the last thing worked."
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