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"I'll be goin' ahead with the seal, if you likes the rig," planned Toby, "and I'll take a stick to try the ice, so we'll be keepin' abroad from any bad ice." "You're wonderful, Toby!" exclaimed Charley admiringly. "I never would have thought of fixing up a rig like this." "'Twill be easier'n packin' the outfit on our backs," remarked Toby.
"Not on your life!" declared Nort and Dick. "Well, I shore do like t' hear you talk that-a-way," said Old Billee. "I didn't think you'd do it. Course it ain't no fun t' sit still an' let these onery Greasers walk off with your cattle. But, as I say, it's sometimes easier'n 'tis t' fight 'em. Lots of th' ranchmen do pay tribute in a way.
They found her dead in her bed one mornin'. The doctor said it was heart disease; but it's my belief that she jest died because she thought she could do Richard a better turn by dyin' than livin'. She'd lived for him twenty years and seen him come into his rights, and I reckon she thought her work was done. Dyin' for people is a heap easier'n livin' for 'em, anyhow.
"Turk, if she dies, I swear to God I'll kill myself this night!" cried he. "You're talkin' crazy, sir. She's comin' around all right, all right. Hear that? Her eyes'll be busy in a minute, and she'll be askin' where she's at. Just keeled over, that's all. All women does that w'en they git's as glad as she wuz. They faint 'cause it's easier'n it is to tell how much obliged they are. I know 'em.
He said Gail and Hope are the angels, and when I cried and told him we could spare you easier'n we could them, he said that he didn't mean sure-enough angels which fly away and never come back, but good, sensitive blessings that make the world better.
And him bein' right here was a danged sight easier'n havin' some man in Wilmington, Delaware, to write to. That's why I let him in on three sides, appealin' to his pride." But Thomas Smith stopped him abruptly. "Hold on! You need money to push your schemes now. And I'm the one who does the financing for you." Both men agreed. "Then it's death to either of you if you ever tell a word of this.
But has the Maggie got power enough, what with the load she's totin' now, to tow that big bark in to San Francisco Bay?" "Oh, we'll take it easy an' get there some time," Scraggs chipped in. "You bet you'll take it easy easier'n you think. Before you start towin' that bark, you'll have to clew up her canvas a whole lot to make the towin' easier, an' who's goin' to do that?
A blush overspread her face for having momentarily misunderstood, but this was no time for embarrassments. He had not noticed it, and his voice was saying calmly: "He was lucky enough to die fightin', for that's a heap easier'n the thickenin' of a rope, or the dry rot down in those stone walls. Still, every man's got to take his medicine, an' I'm goin' to swaller mine a-smilin'!"
"Hogan and Wynn were in the room, and they just laughed at me. 'You're easier'n Burton was, Wynn says. 'Hogan and I are leavin' the harbor to-night, he says, 'and we're takin' the hull fifteen thousand with us. Good night, and happy dreams, Katz, he winds up, then puts out the light, locks the front door, and leaves me to strangle to death." Katz turned his head and spat contemptuously.
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