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I bit my lips to keep back a hot reply, feeling the restraint of her eyes, and we followed him into the next room. The table was set for two, and I could distinguish the shadow of a woman standing motionless in the farther corner. The dim light barely revealed her outlines. "Yer kin talk it out yere," announced Coombs, waving one hand, "cause I won't be present, havin' et already.
Bangs looked a bit sheepish. "I'm glad you came along," he said; and added with a glance at Mrs. Bangs, and in a lower tone, "I haven't sailed very much, to tell the truth. We do er mostly rowing in the Green Pond Fishing Club." They came up to the landing in sailor fashion, and the party stepped out. "Glad to see yer back," remarked Coombs. "Got just a bit worried about you.
Part of this was certainly true, for at Coombs' we had the broken half of a hand-glass to make our simple toilet, and at Fairmead a whole one of some four inches diameter which cost two bits, tin-backed, at the store, and I remember saying that it was an extravagance. Now I stared into the long glass, standing erect in my one gala garment of fringed deerskin.
I believe everybody does, if we only knew it, and you haven't had a very good chance either, piratin' among the black heathen in the islands of the sea; but the Bible speaks plain, and old Captain Coombs often told us not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, and I can't encourage Sunday-breakin' by cookin' for them that do it!"
At other times, also, he shyly avoided the girls, until they began to fear it would be more difficult to "make friends" than they had supposed. Monday morning Mr. Conant went down the mountain road, valise in hand, and met Bill Coombs the stage-driver at the foot of the descent, having made this arrangement to save time and expense.
Then somewhat awkwardly I explained my business, and, mentioning Jasper, asked if he would lend me a horse, whereupon he called to the cheerful, neatly-dressed woman bustling about the stove: "Hurry on that dinner, Jess!" Next, turning to me, he added: "You're welcome to the horse, but it will be supper-time before you fetch Coombs' homestead, and you mayn't get much then.
"I? Why remain and ferret it out, I suppose," and I laughed. "I was never very good at running away, and really I must get at the bottom of this affair. Coombs is going to have a talk with me later intends to make sure who I am, no doubt and I may learn something from him during the interview. Anyhow, I am just obstinate enough to stay it out." "What about me?"
Don't tell me now that it's Peg, or one of those slippery cowboy friends he has trailing after him," remarked Bob. "Here, take the glasses, and see what you think," replied the other, laughingly. No sooner had the Kentucky lad taken a single good look than he called out: "Who but old Hank Coombs, the veteran cow puncher of the Southwest! I suppose your father has sent him on an errand, Frank."
Temple that it is GADgem, of GADgem & Coombs and say that I will be here at ten o'clock to-morrow sharp on the minute; I am ALways on the minute in matters of this kind. Only five minutes of his time five minutes, remember " and he passed out of hearing. Todd, now duly installed as co-conspirator, opened the ball the next morning at breakfast. St.
I suppose it was the interest he took in it that made him hand over this cabin, when he learned that his plans for staying here could never be carried out." "Why, yes, mostly that," agreed Obed, turning a little red. "P'raps I ought to tell yuh that I chanced to do Mr. Coombs a little favor when we first met. Yuh see, I happened to come on him in the woods.
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