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"You're not hurt, I hope?" asked Mr Meldrum, who with Frank had at once hurried to the American's side and taken hold of his hand to raise him up. "No, I guess not," replied Mr Lathrope slowly, getting up on to his feet and proceeding to feel himself carefully all over. "No, I ain't hurt; but I feels flummuxed by the durned old shootin'-iron.
"There isn't an honest man among them," he announced. "Not a durned one! They're all the same. Cut each other's throats for a dime, the whole caboodle. Oh! damn a Democrat anyhow, Tom, 'tain't in the nature of things that they should be anything but thieves and rascals. Just look at the whole thing. It's founded on lies and corruption and scoundrelism. That's their foundation.
You'll have to do it. I'll walk." And to the groom's amazement, they left him standing under the trees looking after them. "It's up to me," he was saying. "The whole durned thing's up to me." The neighborhood of Temple Barholm was not, upon the whole, a brilliant one. Indeed, it had been frankly designated by the casual guest as dull.
He even threatened, if I hadn't come to my senses before the ranch was dry in the summer, to burn me out!" Carson blinked at her. "How's that?" he asked. She told him again, coolly indifferent, it seemed to Carson. "The durned polecat!" whispered the cattle foreman. "Now then," cried Judith, "you've got your first job cut out for you.
"Wal, durned if some of you fellers ain't kind an' complimentary," remarked Macomber, scratching his head. "But then every feller can't have hoss sense." Then, looking up to see Lucy Bostil coming along the road, he brightened as if with inspiration. Lucy was at home among them, and the shy eyes of the younger riders, especially Van, were nothing if not revealing.
"I have read some'ers," said Mr. Scraggs, "that some man whose name was a durned sight more important to him than it is to me, for I've plumb forgot it, said that he never begun nothin' unless he could see the end of it." "His wife's family must have owned real estate," suggested Red Saunders. "He didn't specify which end," excused Mr. Scraggs.
Hopkins did not speak as though this quality of his daughter gave him unmixed delight. "But she's a good-hearted gal, Cassy is, high-spirited, and I won't deny she's handsome and smart." "She'll kind of grace my position when I'm governor. But to tell you the truth, Jethro, one old friend to another, durned if I don't wish she was married.
Dickson quickly lifted his wife into his arms and carried her into the tent. "Who did it?" and Mr. Conroyal's eyes searched anxiously the angry and mystified faces of the men, the moment Mr. Dickson vanished with his burden in the tent. "Th' Lord alone knows for sart'in," answered Ham. "But, I reckon, 'twas one of them durned skunks.
He believed it to be the final question. But the man gave him no satisfaction. He left him with the uncertainty as to whether he had wholly fooled him or not. His words were peremptory. "We'll git back an' finish the hunt," he declared. Then, "Will that durned plug carry you now?" Jim shrugged. "Maybe at a walk." "Wal, git right on." Jim obeyed. It would have been madness to refuse.
The travelers and the master of the ranch sat at a small table, while the woman and the children retreated to a dark corner near the fire, where they ate. "Will not your wife eat with us?" politely inquired Boyton. "Eat with us!" exclaimed the rancher in breathless astonishment, "I shud say not. Do you think I'd eat with a durned Indian?"
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