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Stillwell, you must help me." Whenever Madeline fell into a quandary she had to call upon the old cattleman. No man ever held a position with greater pride than Stillwell, but he had been put to tests that steeped him in humility. Here he scratched his head in great perplexity. "Dog-gone the luck! What's this elopin' bizness to do with cattle-raisin'? I don't know nothin' but cattle.
And we'll come back by team from some place down the line, and lay low either round your premises or mine and ketch that infernal, frowzle-headed sister of Jim the Penman by the hind leg and snap her blasted head off." "What be you goin' to tell the wimmen?" "Tell 'em northin'." "There'll be the devil to pay. They'll think we're elopin'." "Well, let 'em think," said Hiram, stubbornly.
"So that ain't elopin', eh?" says I. "I expect you'd call that a sixty-yard run on a forward pass, or something like that? Well, the old man's inside. Luck to you." Mallory wa'n't on the carpet long, and when he comes out I asks how he made back. "Oh, bully!" says he. "I'm to have ten days." "With or without?" says I. "Oh, I forgot to ask," says he.
He hesitated a moment and then added: "You know your grandmother and I, we well, we have maybe cause to be a little mite prejudiced against this elopin' business." So Albert thought, and the next morning, as the pair were walking together to the office, he spoke his thought. Captain Zelotes had not mentioned the subject.
So I asks ag'in whether you-all folks has any objections to me elopin' into Wolfville with my beloved, like I suggests. I ain't out to spring no bridals on a onprotected outfit, wherefore I precedes the play with these queries. "'But whatever's the call for you to elope at all? remonstrates Enright. 'The simple way now would be to round up this lady's paternal gent, an' get his consent.
But Skid didn't call that elopin'. Why, Sis had left word with the butler to tell her friends all about it, and the first thing they did after it was over was to send a forty-word collect telegram to papa. And Mallory, he'd just dropped around to arrange with Old Hickory for a little vacation before they beat it for Atlantic City.
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