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"Then what ailed ye ter go an' tell sech a lie ter Gryce's boys las' night jes' down thar outside o' the shop?" Stephen Ryder demanded. Ab stared at him, evidently bewildered. "Ye tole 'em," continued the blacksmith, striving to refresh his memory, "ez Bob Peachin say ez how ye mought know I war deceivin' by my bein' named Stephen an' that I war the hongriest critter an'"
Then, he can scarcely be deceivin' us in sayin' that he met three Redskins carryin' off a white man an' what good could it do him if he is? Besides, he is goin' out of his way to sarve us."
"Shure, it's me that cuts up a big piece of cloth when it comes t' clothes, which is deceivin' enough, since I'm back from the war. For what's a man and never mind his size if his lungs is gone? or goin'?" Johnnie turned upward a troubled look. "Did y' git hurt in the war?" he asked. "Well, maybe ye wouldn't call it hurt, exactly," answered the Father.
Look at my knuckles! Barked em slidin' about a mile down a smooth wall. I thought once the lion had jumped Don, but soon I heard him barkin' again. All thet time I heard Sounder, an' once I heard the pup. Jim yelled, an' somebody was shootin'. But I couldn't find nobody, or make nobody hear me. Thet canyon is a mighty deceivin' place. You'd never think so till you go down.
But I'm free t' say," regarding the streaks and thumb-marks with quick disfavour, "that it looks a lot like her." My sister smiled upon me with an air of loftiest superiority. "Smell it again," said she. "Well," I admitted, after sniffing long and carefully, "I does seem t' have got wind o' " "There's no deceivin' a woman's nose," my sister declared, positively.
Rack Slimson jerked his head toward the approaching girl. "He's got 'em again," said Racey to Mr. Saltoun and Tom Loudon. "I don't see any 'her' anywhere. Do you?" "Not me," chorussed both men. "You see how yo're mistaken, Rack," pointed out Racey. "Yore eyes are deceivin' you. Don't you trust 'em. You don't see any girls round here, exceptin' maybe Miss Dale over at the house.
I have an eye there ain't no deceivin'. I have made it a study, and know every pint about a woman, as well as I do about a hoss; therefore, if I say so, it must be so, and no mistake. I make all allowances for the gear, and the gettin' up, and the vampin', and all that sort o' flash; but toggery won't make an ugly gall handsum, nohow you can fix it.
"Nope. Jest plain, every-day cactus. An' over hyar look down the valley. Somethin' of a pretty forest, ain't thet?" he asked, pointing. Madeline saw a beautiful forest in the center of the valley toward the south. "Wal, Miss Majesty, thet's jest this deceivin' air. There's no forest. It's a mirage." "Indeed! How beautiful it is!"
Dorian explained as much as he thought proper, but the woman still appeared suspicious. "Are you her brother?" "No." "Her young man?" "Not exactly; only a dear friend." "Well, you look all right, but looks are deceivin'." The woman tried to be very severe with him, but somehow she did not succeed very well.
When they had reached the house, he faced round sternly on Ab. "Whyn't ye kem an' tell me ez how the miller say I war a sneakin', deceivin' critter, an' an' an' a thief!" His wife dropped the dish she was washing, and it broke unheeded upon the hearth. Ab stretched his eyes and mouth in amazement. "Old Bob Peachin never tole me no sech word sence I been born!" he declared flatly.
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