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Thus invited, the hunter seated himself on a stone and laid his gun on the hollow of his left arm. "First of all, friend," continued Harry, "do you belong to the fort here?" "No," replied the man, "I'm staying here just now, but I don't belong to the place." "Where do you come from then, and what's your name?" "Why, I've comed d'rect from the Saskatchewan with a packet o' letters.
Thus invited, the hunter seated himself on a stone and laid his gun on the hollow of his left arm. "First of all, friend," continued Harry, "do you belong to the fort here?" "No," replied the man; "I'm stayin' here just now, but I don't belong to the place." "Where do you come from, then, and what's your name?" "Why, I've comed d'rect from the Saskatchewan with a packet o' letters.
"Oh, tha's settled," announced Jeff soothingly. "Who settled it?" "Me." "You?" "Yas, me out of pyure frien'ship fur you. Lissen, Brother Lovin', an' give due heed. I comes to you d'rect frum Gumbo Rollins. He's done seen the error of the way he acked tow'ds you that time. He's cravin' that all the grudges of the bygone past shall be disremembered.
"Say, Hank! Who are the damsels?" The answer came back through the fog: "People from the East looking for a runaway. Old gent, pretty daughter, and pretty daughter's prettier cousin. Heard the orders?" "Damn the orders! They don't touch us. Where do they come from?" "D'rect from Washington, they say. Three regiments to sail at once, and " "Oh, I know all that!" shouted Gordon impatiently.
"This won't do," said Slag, on making the discovery. "We'll have to steer d'rect for the highest land." "That's so, Joe," said Mitford, "and yonder's a height away there, right in the wind's eye, that will act as a beacon to us." "I sees it, John but, I say, what's the matter wi' Terrence?"
"You ain't in no ways hampered by facts. But, anyway, we wasn't talkin' 'bout Injuns." "No, but we was goin' to," retorted Bill, "for I was about t' d'rect th' conversation in them channels when you makes them ign'rant interruptions." "Oh, go on an' talk, Bill," Jim Walker broke in. "Don't pertend that Shorty, nor th' whole United States Army, c'd stop you if you wanted t' chin."
Next day Haco Barepoles steered the "Coal-Coffin" triumphantly into the port of London, with a hole in her side big enough, if Tom Grattan's report is to be believed, "to admit of a punt bein' row'd d'rect from the sea into the hold!" The steamer which had run down the sloop of Haco Barepoles was a large iron one, which had just set out on a voyage to the West Indies.
You see, sir," continued Blunt, with an earnest look, and in a business tone of voice, "when you sent me down to investigate the case I went d'rect to the station-master there and heard all he had to say about it which wasn't much; then off I goes to where the truck was standin', from which the cask had bin taken and pottered about there for some time.
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