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"The wind's blowin' away from town," contributed Mike Flynn. "Nothin' else'll catch. Besides, we been needing a new calaboose for a long time. You done us a better turn than you think, Marie." "If you say I set the jail afire, Mike Flynn," cried Marie, "Yo're a liar by the clock." "You set it afire," said the sheriff, sternly. "You'll find it a serious business setting a jail afire."
'Well, he said, lifting his head to look at her, 'I guess I'll answer for my own faults, if everybody else'll answer for theirs. Her heart beat fiery hot as he lifted his face to her. She breathed heavily, averting her face, almost losing her self-control. 'And what do you take me to be? she cried, in real helplessness.
"Well, everybody else'll be there, and shame 'em if they ain't," said Mrs. Starling. "How's your mother, Joe?" "Wall, I guess she's ripe," said Joe with a slow intonation, loving and reverent; "but she's goin' to hold on to this state o' things yet awhile. Good day t'ye!"
Huxley, he says that there is only one thing that will vivify milk and make it luxurious to the palate, and that is water. Give it a few jerks under the pump, and out it comes sparkling and delicious, like nectar. I dunno how it is, but Prof. Huxley says that it undergoes some kinder chemical change that nothing else'll bring about but a flavoring of fine old pump-water.
"So's we can be sure everybody else'll know it and not give something either and be disappointed too," she assented. "Well, I bet everybody'd be real relieved." "The churches has sanctioned us doing away with Christmas this year by doing away with it themselves," observed Mis' Jane Moran. "That'd ought to be enough to go by."
No one else'll get through those rivers under a week." And they didn't. Remembering the telegrams, the Wag shot a swift quizzing glance at him; but it took more than a glance to disconcert Mac once his mind was made up, and he met it unmoved, and entered into a vivid description of the "passage of the Fergusson," which filled in our time until supper.
"'No, I told him, 'but if I'm there maybe somebody else'll find out something from passing me in the street. "'That's an idea, sure enough, he said, so I started for Philadelphia, and that's how I came to fall in with Rex." Miles finished his story with this word. It almost seemed as if he had done it on purpose, planning for it, as it were.
"Apparently," I remarked, "everyone's afraid that everybody else'll have the lion's share of the fighting. Well, if I can fix it, there'll not be any fighting at all." "What do you mean?" Cumshaw asked interestedly. "That's nothing to do with the situation at present," I informed him. "You'll all see when the time's ripe. Now what's next?"
"'Owever, if I fail, gentle-men, it'll be the fust and only trick I've failed in to-night. You can't expect everything to turn out right, but if I do fail this time, gentlemen, I'll try it agin if anybody else'll lend me another watch." Dicky Weed tried to speak but couldn't, and 'e sat there, with 'is face pale, staring at the pieces of 'is watch on the conjurer's table.
Many are ransum in a year or two. Oders longer. Lots ob 'em die, an' 'scape dat way. Keep up your heart, Geo'ge, whateber you do, and, if you won't break your word-ob-honour, something else'll be sure to turn up."
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