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"Here, come here, Tintoretto," drawlingly called the man from the trail. "Come back here, you young tenderfoot." But Tintoretto answered that he wouldn't. He also said, in the language of puppy barks, that important discoveries demanded not only his but his master's attention where he was, forthwith.
Brennan did not answer at once, sitting silent, his brows wrinkled, staring through a crevasse of the rock up the stream. Finally he grinned into the anxious face of the other. "Danged if I know," he said drawlingly. "Maybe it does, and maybe again it don't. I was sorter puttin' this an' that tergether.
However, it's too late now to catch the fellow on this trip." Peter rubbed his bald pate, his eyes on me. "An' what'll we do with this lad?" he answered drawlingly. "Turn him loose?" "Bring him along. We'll find out to-morrow who he is, and what his business may be. Men are not riding these roads at midnight without some purpose."
The dog's pedigree, as his master had drawlingly proclaimed, was "p'yart houn', p'yart bull, p'yart cur, p'yart terrier, an' the rest of him wal, jes' dog." Reverse this and it will be Carpenter's: Just dog, with a sprinkling of bull, cur, terrier, and hound.
"What's the matter with him?" Jenny considered, her pale face now deadly white, all the heat gone from her cheeks, though the hard glitter remained in her eyes, cruelly indicating the hunger within her bosom. "Oh, he's all right in his way," she drawlingly admitted. "He's clean. That's in his favour. But he's quiet ... he's got no devil in him.
As usual, however, Waldo was first to rally, and, after silently moving around the aerostat, upon which the professor was already busily at work by the last gleams of the vanished sun, he paused, legs separated, and hands thrust deep into pockets, head perking on one side as he spoke, drawlingly: "I say, uncle Phaeton?" "What is it, Waldo?"
"But she still hopes to eat," said Helen. "What is it you want of your poor slaves, Lady Ruth?" "Do my work here while I'm gone. Look out for the supplies. I can break you both in this morning. I do not know just when I shall be called for " "By whom, pray?" put in the saucy Jennie drawlingly. Ruth ignored the question. "You will not find this work difficult.
"You cain't get no gasoline short o' Milk River," he bellowed drawlingly; "and you sure got to paddle, so you better buy whisky!" While we were deciding to accept the offered advice, "Texas" whittled a stick and got off a few jokes of Rabelaisian directness. We laughed heartily, and as a mark of his appreciation, he gave us five quarts for a gallon.
But, lest this be taken as a precedent, I wish it to be understood that I'm not jeopardizing my fortune, or any part of it, out of any sentimental consideration for these supposed claims of any one who holds Lattimore paper, in the East or elsewhere!" Jim sat drumming on the desk. "As we are all agreed on what to do," said he drawlingly, "we can skip the question why we do it.
The Missourian had a drawlingly soft voice the dog liked, and he used to talk to Bruce as if the latter were another human. For all these reasons and because Mahan was too busy and too grumpy to bother with him Bruce elected to stay where he was, for a while, and share the Missourian's vigil. So, when the rest of the party moved along to the next sentry-go, the dog remained.
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