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Speug and Dunc were however of opinion that nothing was likely to take place that day except desultory skirmishes, and that the whole day ought to be spent in accumulating a store of snowballs against Friday, when there was no question that we should have to face the united schools in a decisive battle.
"You don't 'spose I'm goin' to tell, an' get my frien's in trouble?" "Le's see yer paper, Bi," said Dunc, snatching at it as Bi passed to his regular seat. Bi surrendered his paper with the air of one granting a high favor and sank to his chair and his pipe. "How's crops in the city?" asked Hank Fielder, and Bi's tale was set a-going. Bi could talk; that was one thing that always made him welcome.
Melissy hung over him and ministered to his needs. While he was eating breakfast he talked. "No luck yet, honey. He's hiding in some pocket of the hills, I reckon; and likely there he'll stay till the hunt is past. They don't make them any slicker than Dunc, dad gum his ugly hide!" "What is that paper?" his daughter asked.
You think you would right now, but inside of a week you'll be hunting for pet names to give me." She ran blindly toward the house where her room was. On the way she passed at a little distance Dunc Boone and did not see him. His hungry eyes followed her a slender creature of white and russet and gold, vivid as a hillside poppy, compact of life and fire and grace.
As soon as we've cleared the background every ane o' the two junior classes is to mak' balls as hard as he can lick and bring them forward to the fighting line. "We'll divide the senior school into three divisions; Dunc will take thirty of ye and drive McIntyre frae the guns and along the terrace till ye turn them into Breadalbane Street.
"I've got a pistol, Roger." "You!" "Yes, the Models all carry them. Dunc always insisted that it was the proper thing." As Dick spoke, he produced a highly polished nickel-plated five-shooter. "It looks like a good one," I said, after examining it. "Is it loaded?" "Oh, yes; and I've got a box of cartridges in my pocket besides." "Lend it to me, Dick."
There was a bit of work at long-field, which even the Columbians could not help cheering, though it lost them a wicket, and the way in which a ball was sent up from cover-point to Dunc Robertson, and so took another wicket, wrung a word of private praise from the Columbian umpire.
It was exactly 2.15 when the door opened and a procession of forty-two entered panting and breathless, headed by Dunc Robertson, who carried his head erect, with a light in his eye, and closed by Peter, whose hair was like unto that of a drowned rat, and whose unconcealed desire was for obscurity.
Dunc was deep in the paper. Presently he turned it over: "Whew!" he said speculatively. "If that don't look like that little lollypop over to Carson's I'll eat my hat! What's her name?" They all drew around the paper and leaned over Dunc's shoulder squinting at the picture, all but Bi, who was lighting his pipe: "They're as like as two peas!" said one.
Old Richard Bellamy, father of the young man, was shot through the uncurtained window of his living rooms while reading the paper one night. Though related to the Yarnells, he had never taken any part in the feud beyond that of expressing his opinion freely. The general opinion was that he had been killed by Dunc Boone, but there was no conclusive evidence to back it.
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