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You're not a Mormon. You don't want us both, do you?" she demanded, her eyes sparkling with the exhilaration of the tilt. "Could I get either one of y'u, do y'u reckon? That's what's worrying me." "I see, and so you intend to keep us both on the string." His joyous laughter echoed hers. "I expaict y'u would call that presumption or some other dictionary word, wouldn't y'u?"
Then he came down easily again, and finished with expressions of sympathy for it because it could never have known a mother. "Do you expaict it could show a male parent offhand?" inquired a slow voice behind us. I jumped round, and there was the Virginian. "Male parent!" scoffed the prompt Scipio. "Ain't you heard about THEM yet?" "Them? Was there two?" "Two?
But I expaict my cousin's enjoying it." "He ain't enjoying it so much as he would if his plans had worked out a little smoother. He's holding the sack right now and cussing right smaht over it being empty, I reckon." "He did lock the stable door a little too late," chuckled the sheepman. But even as he spoke a shadow fell over his face. "My God! I had forgotten.
She dropped the revolver back into the bag and shut the clasp with a click, "And now I think, Mr. Bannister, that I'll not detain you any longer. We understand each other sufficiently." He rose with a laugh that mocked. "I expaict to spend quite a bit of time understanding y'u one of these days. In the meantime this is to our better acquaintance."
"Bet your life!" said the man. "First lot has been stuck here four days." "Plumb starved, ain't they?" inquired the Virginian. "Bet your life! They've eat up their dining cars and they've eat up this town." "Well," said the Virginian, looking at the town, "I expaict the dining-cyars contained more nourishment." "Say, you're about right there!" said the man.
"I expaict you'll like Wyoming, Miss Messiter; leastways I hope you will. There's a right smart of country here." His gaze went out of the open door to the vast sea of space that swam in the fine sunset light. "Yes, most folks that ain't plumb spoilt with city ways likes it." "Sure she'll like it. Y'u want to get a good, easy-riding hawss, Miss Messiter," advised Slim.
But I expaict they'll not equal Delmonico's, seh?" he said to a passenger. "Don't trust the judgment of a man as hungry as I am!" exclaimed the traveller, with a laugh. And he turned to his fellow-travellers. "Did you ever enjoy supper at Delmonico's more than this?" "Never!" they sighed. "Why, look here," said the traveller, "what fools the people of this town are!
Los Angeles was beginnin' its boom. The corner-lot sharps wanted something by way of varnish. An' so they dazzled Eastern investors with advertisin' Tulare frawgs clear to New Orleans an' New York. 'Twas only in Sacramento frawgs was dull. I expaict the California legislature was too or'n'ry for them fine-raised luxuries.
"They're ce'tainly crowding us. I expaict I better send them a 'How-de-do? so as to discourage them a few." He took as careful aim as he could on the galloping horse, but his bullet went wide. "They're gaining like sixty. It's my offhand opinion we better stop at that bunch of trees and argue some with them. No use buck-jumpin' along to burn the wind while they drill streaks of light through us."
They were still in costume, Mac dressed as a monk, and his friend as a Stuart cavalier, and the spirit of frolic was yet strong in them. "I expaict, mebbe, we better hunt in couples if we're going to help paint the town," smiled Mac, and his friend had immediately agreed.
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