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"Here you come playin' the Early Christian over a man that, for aught you knew, had robbed you to a stair: and when 'tis your tried friend fetchin' back riches to you fairly bringin' you back to life at the cost o' bein' a beggar hisself you let him go without so much as a thank'ee!" "Cai Hocken don't want my thanks."
Then the deac'n got good an' goin', an' I got right on to the 'A-mens, fetchin' 'em that easy I wished I'd never done nothin' else all my life. I set ther' feelin' real happy." Arizona paused, and his wild eyes softened as his thoughts went back to those few happy moments of his chequered career. Then he heaved a deep sigh of regret and went on "But it wa'n't to last.
Keziah eyed her grimly. "Humph!" she sniffed. "If you'd been a little less delicate about fetchin' that hammer, we might have been spared at least one smash-up. I don't s'pose Laviny'll ever speak to me again. Oh, dear! I guess likely I'll never get the memory of that that Kyan thing out of my mind. I never was so set back in my born days. Yes, you can laugh!" She laughed herself as she said it.
"Mighty nice gad," said Scattergood. "Where in tunket did it come from?" asked Jim. "I stuck it there. Looked to me like a rig sich as your'n needed a good whip to set it off. I jest put it there to see how it looked." Jim glanced at his girl, scratched the back of his suntanned neck, and felt in his pocket. "Calc'late I did need a whip," he said. "How much is sich whips fetchin'?"
But now, having crossed the Rubicon, the rogue must brazen things out which he did by starting a cat out of one of the dingy laurels, chivvying her some way into the house, and returning to shake himself on the front doorstep and bark in absurd triumph. "'Dolph! 'Dolph!" called Tilda. "Belongs to you, does he? Then fetch him out at once! You, and your dogs!" "I'm fetchin' him fast as I can."
Walker came runnin' through the room and lookin' in registers. Then everybody began to cough in earnest, only George Heigold coughed louder than a cow, and Bertha Whitney, bein' delicate, fainted and there was a lot of runnin' to her, pickin' her up and fetchin' her water. And the schoolroom went wild.
"Creech'll be fetchin' his hosses across soon, I reckon." "You bet he will. He's trainin' for the races next month." "An' when air they comin' off?" "You got me. Mebbe Van knows." Some one prodded a sleepy rider who lay all his splendid lithe length, hat over his eyes. Then he sat up and blinked, a lean-faced, gray-eyed fellow, half good-natured and half resentful. "Did somebody punch me?"
"Just as we got back from fetchin' the cream, miss. I should say as it was about 'alf-past nine. He did meet us at the lodge, and took the young gentleman with 'im for company 'e said so." "Thank you, Earley," Jan said quietly. Earley looked at her and over his broad, good-natured face there passed a shade of misgiving. "I did tell Hannah to let you know the minute I cum in, miss."
"May see you in Wellmouth, you know. Still, such things are er kind of uncertain and er sendin' bills is a nuisance, so perhaps 'twould be better er easier for both of us if we settled that little matter of ours right now. Eh?" "I beg your pardon. Little matter? I'm afraid I don't quite " "Oh, that little matter of the three dollars for fetchin' you over.
"I had nothin' to do with fetchin' you here an' I'll have nothin' to do with sendin' you back or whatever's done with you," declared Beasley. Then the girl's face flashed white again and her eyes changed to fire. "You're as big a liar as Riggs," she cried, passionately. "And you're a thief, a bully who picks on defenseless girls. Oh, we know your game!
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