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"My third cousin, of course," answered Joel. "I figgered that out with a slate and pencil." "And her son, if she had one?" "Would be my fourth cousin; no great connection, to be sure but enough to brag on, if they happened to be smart!" "Supposing I tell you what I am Lucy Temple's son?" said Durward, to which Joel, not the least suspicious, replied, "Wall, s'posin' you du, 'twon't make it so."
I've got if tell ye David's been losin' money. Hain't never wrote ye 'bout it not a word 'cause I didn't know how 'twas comin' out. 'How did he lose it? I enquired. 'Wall ye know that Ow Barker runs a hardware store in Migleyville he sold him a patent right. Figgered an' argued night an' day fer more 'n three weeks. It was a new fangled wash biler.
"I figgered that if you lived through a year of it," Pinkey replied, candidly, "then almost anything else would look like a snap to you." It was plain that in spite of his prospects Pinkey was not sanguine, but in this moment of his exultation failure seemed impossible to Wallie. In various small ways Canby had tried to break him and had not succeeded.
"Somethin' else," said Scattergood, looking from one to another, and finally at Lafe. "Siggins figgered that my gittin' a beatin' on this bill would sort of make him boss of the state. You see, Mr. President, this here bill wasn't meant to pass. It was fixed up for a couple of reasons. One was to git something which I'll tell you about in a second.
"I kin haul this one right to his house, and explain to him how he come to git it so soon. I'll say: 'Locker, we jest hauled this stove down from Sam Kettleman's. Had it all set up there and then Sam he figgered it was too expensive a stove for him and he couldn't afford it right now on account of business not bein' brisk." "Eh?" said Kettleman.
I didn't never say nothin' about it to nobody after I growed up, 'cause I figgered it out they wouldn't understand and mebbe'd laugh at me; but all these years, ever sence I left that there porehouse, I've had a hankerin' here inside of me" he lifted one hand and touched his breast "I've had a hankerin' to be a boy and to do all the things a boy does; to do the things I was chiselled out of doin' whilst I was of a suitable age to be doin' 'em.
Bostil conquered his paroxysm, and, wiping his moist red face, he eyed Lucy in mock solemnity. "Joel!" whispered Lucy, who had a guilty conscience. "Lucy, I never heard the beat of it.... Joel's smarter in some ways than we thought, an' crazier in others. He had the sun figgered, but what'd he want to run through town for? Why, never in my life have I seen such tickled riders."
"Figgered to plug me while the horses was restin', knowin' I'd have to breathe them about here. Thought one shot would get me. Missed his reckonin'. Must be a mite peeved by this time." His gaze became intent again, but this time it was directed to some underbrush about two hundred yards distant, back of the rocks.
"'Cordin' to the way the men figgered it out," he went on, "though I reckon they're under the mark more'n over it, you'll have forty thousan' dollars. That's quite a windfall, though nothin' to Miss Peggy, here, or me, for that matter. I s'pose you got it all spent already." "I don't know that I have," said Rainey.
When I see you I figgered you must be president of the railroad or the Queen of Sheeby. I want to see Mr. Castle." "What is your business with him?" "'Tain't fit for young ears to listen to," said Scattergood. "If you have any business with Mr. Castle, state it to me." "Um!... I come quite consid'able of a distance to see him which I calc'late to do."
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