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Updated: June 21, 2025
It's a great place to get back to, take it from me. Specially when you hit it like I did, a two-way winner with a full-sized portion of pirate loot, and Vee wearin' a ring of mine. And maybe I didn't enjoy driftin' into the Corrugated general offices, with everybody, from fair-haired Vincent up to Mr. Robert, givin' me the glad hail.
And years and years I've hunted for her, but couldn't find her. Cause I couldn't stick, I guess. Somethin' always kep' callin' me back into the hills, and I'd forgot. Just me and the little fellas, we understand. And we're driftin' about ag'in huntin' for Baby Jean. "I had a funny dream. I dreamed I'd found her a young woman grown.
So shock No. 2 is handed me when I discovers how the high-shouldered young husk with the wide-set blue eyes, that I'd seen hangin' round the Arcade on and off, was really waitin' for Ruby. Uh-huh! I stood and watched 'em sidle up to each other and go driftin' out into Broadway hand in hand. A swell pair they'd make for a Rube vaudeville act!
But nothin' come of it. I don't believe there was a wretcheder soul in that big city of wretchedness than me. Sometimes I wanted to lay down in the sheets and die. "Driftin' disconsolate one day among the shippin', who should I overhaul but the identical smooth-spoken chap with a white hat an' a weed on it!
Besides, father had begun takin' mud baths and experimentin' with climates. So for eight or ten years she went driftin' around here and there, battlin' with room clerks and head waiters, hirin' and firin' nurses, packin' trunks every month or so, and generally enjoyin' the life of a health hunter, with her punctured romance trailin' further and further behind her.
"Could you make it to camp, fast?" Kirby grunted. "Sure, easy as driftin' downriver on one of them theah steamers. But leavin' you heah with that mess of skunks is somethin' else." "Weatherby's out there. Anything or anyone gettin' by him would have to come in on wings." "An' wings don't come natural to this breed of critter! All right, I don't see how theah's much else we can do.
Just travelin'. Maybe I'll make it over to Rattlesnake Buttes" he raised an arm toward the northeast "and maybe down Caldron Cañon way." He pointed southeast toward the mountains. "I dunno just driftin' along, me an' the little fellas. Sometimes we drift here, and sometimes we drift there. Don't matter much, s'long's there's grub an' a little rolled barley in the pack-bags.
"Say," the latter called out, "did you see a young woman drifting about here in a boat last night?" "Did I see what?" the captain asked, apparently surprised. "A young woman, Miss Randall, in a boat last night? She has disappeared, and we're afraid she's drowned." "No, I didn't see any young woman driftin' around here in a boat last night," the captain replied.
We're good in emairgencies, the now; when the time comes when we get a glimmer that all life is emairgency and tremblin' peril, that every turn may be the wrong turn when we can see that our petty system of suns and all is nobbut a wee darkling cockle-boat, driftin' and tossed abune the waves in the outmost seas of an onrushing universe hap-chance we'll no loom so grandlike in our own een; and we'll tak' hands for comfort in the dark.
'Tis the worst odds yet but I'd sooner drown than tarry in this vessel. One miracle was wrought when the cask came driftin' to the beach to save me, and who knows but the Lord can spare another one for the salvation of us poor lads that mean to do right and forsake piratin'."
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