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Half an hour later we was chuggin' away from the little natural jackpot that we'd opened so successful, headed for the Agnes. And, believe me, the old yacht looks mighty homey and invitin', lyin' there in the calm of the mornin' with all her awnin's spread and a trickle of blue smoke driftin' up from the forward galley. "Any orders?" asks Mr. Ellins, as we starts to run alongside.
Can't you see, you land-lubber, that that's the Stars and Stripes upside down? `Why, so it is, says Andy, with a couple of reefs in the joyfulness of his voice. An' Tom he began to growl as if somebody had cheated him out of half a year's wages. "The flag that we saw was on the hull of a steamer that had been driftin' down on us while we was sittin' under our canvas.
Both Barry and Jones started to reply, but Semple cut them short. "They was going to do just that," he announced, "but I persuaded them to bring this matter up before this meetin', because we got to begin to take some measures to stop this kind of a nuisance. There's a lot of undesirables driftin' into this camp lately.
'Bloody Mike, their leader, had about persuaded the men to send the captain and mate to Davy Jones's locker and the carpenter was riggin' the plank for 'em to walk when I up and puts in a word. "I pleaded for their lives and, though Mike was dead agin' the idea, they voted to let them live. The last we saw of 'em they was driftin' off in the jolly boat with a jug of water and a loaf of bread."
"Steve and I sot down on the wharf, for it was a beautiful day, and looked at them driftin' out in the stream, and hystin' sail, while the folks was gettin' somethin' ready for us to the inn.
The second evenin' the wind freshened from the south'ard and east'ard and drove the fog in shore a bit, and the sun, just before he set, looked like a big yellow ball through the fog and made a sickly kind of a glimmer over the water. They was a-lyin' at anchor, and all of a sudden, right to the wind'ard of 'em, this old ship loomed up, driftin' in with the wind and flood-tide.
It's fine. That's what it is fine great. Well, I've got to be driftin' along. I'm going to meet Swing in town. We're riding south Arizona way to-morrow." "Arizona!" "Yeah, we're going to give the mining game a whirl." "Why why not give it a whirl up here in this country?" "Because there ain't another mine like yores in the territory. No, we'll go south.
And, say, the last I see of J. Bayard he was driftin' through the door, gazin' absentminded at the envelope, like he was figurin' on how much he could grab off at the first swipe. I gazes after him thoughtful until the comic side of it struck me. "This is a hot combination we're in, eh?" I chuckles to the lawyer gent.
Would he come driftin' back to the home ranch, an' come out when them damn deputies come along, bowin' an' scrapin' an' sayin': 'I'm here, gentlemen I've been waitin' for you to come an' try rope on me, so's you'd be sure to get a good fit! Would he? You're mighty right he wouldn't! He'd be populatin' that old pueblo that he's been tellin' me for years would make a good fort!"
I dare say he's here now perhaps asleep in the camp. I'll go " "Don't go don't you needn't," said Captain Corbet, with a groan. "You don't understand. It's ben no pore castaway that's come here no pore driftin lad that fell upon these lone and desolate coasts. No never did he set foot here. All this is not the work o' shipwracked people.
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