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I was too danged tired when I went to sleep to take off my boots." "You've got another ten hours to sleep," said Neal with a scowl. "An' you'll have plenty of time to get rid of your saddle soreness. You'll ride in automobiles and trains for a while an' keep in out of the hot sun an' the wet." The sheriff laughed harshly at his own words. Rathburn let the other boot drop.
But" his tone changed abruptly "if you figger you can take your danged rainy-day bank account out'n the Cloverdale bank and grab onto this land, you leave yourself, and hold onto it while you stay East a few years, and then sneak back here and get rich off their loss, I tell you now, you can't do it.
"Turnips?" exclaimed Simon, staring. "Turnips as ever was!" nodded the Ancient, "used to stand, for hours at a time, a-lookin' at 'is turnips an' shakin' 'is 'ead over 'em." "But what for? a man must be a danged fule to go shakin' of 'is 'ead over a lot o' turnips!" "Well, I don't know," rejoined the Ancient; "'is turnips was very good uns, as a rule, an' fetched top prices in the markets."
"I'll be danged," he said to himself. "I'll be danged and double danged." He turned off the alarm and then went downstairs to the teledepth screen to notify the sheriff's office. A few hundred yards from the powerhouse, Jon Hall stood in the darkness, listening to the voices of his fellows.
Thas bad the Colonel will kill me." "Yes, and do a danged good job," grumbled Wiley morosely. "You sure got me in Dutch with Virginia." "She says you stole her mine," defended Charley stoutly. "And don't you say nothing against Virginia. She's noblest girl the sun ever shined. I'll kill any man that says different!" "Oh yes, sure," agreed Wiley, "I'd do that myself.
Smith, I know danged well I'm not so 'shamed of that as I should be. The thing that hurts me wouldn't be cards for you at all.
"I've two good eyes in me head that can see yer danged old wagon for meself, an' fwhat's more I've two good hands that can break ye in bits for the impedent dried herrin' that ye are, a-thinkin' ye can take me anywhere at all be abductin' me widout me consent. For a sup o' wather I'd go to ye " He turned quickly to look behind him for the driver was calmly pointing toward the end of the seat.
I've been a danged fule!" he said, more as if speaking his thoughts aloud than addressing me, "but a man can't help lovin' a lass like Prue, and when 'e loves 'e can't 'elp hopin'. I've hoped these three years an' more, and last night she called me coward."
Av it was me, or you, now but the Seer! It's danged quare! But tell me, fwhat's this man, yer boss? 'Tis a good healthy pull he must have to be separatin' us from thim San Felipe police." Texas Joe deliberated so long before answering this that Pat glanced at him uneasily several times. At last the driver drawled: "You're right there; Jefferson Worth sure has some pull." Pat grunted.
"May we be lucky yet!" said another. "I wouldn't be luckier than this," said another, as he, too, emptied a bottle. "We couldn't desire better entertainment, where the reckoning is all paid." "Excellent!" "Very good!" "Capital wine this!" "I say, Huggins!" "Well," said Huggins. "What are you drinking?" "Wine." "What wine?" "Danged if I know," was the reply.
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