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But, there I was in the water, and not much better off for it, neither, for I couldn't swim a stroke, and as soon as I got through bobbing up and down like your cork when you've got a sunfish on your line, I stayed right still, just as if I'd been some bait-can a boy had thrown into an eddy, and I figgered like as not I'd stay there forever.
An' Blaisdell gave me a hunch. Pretty soon along comes young Evarts. The old man calls him out of our hearin' an' talks to him. Then I seen him give the boy somethin', which I afterward figgered was what he wrote on the leaf out of the Bible. Me an' Blaisdell both tried to git out of him what thet meant. But not a word. I kept watchin' an' after a while I seen young Evarts slip out the back way.
"From Hudsondale to Highvale, and right on down the west bank of the river to New York." Lou sat back on her heels reflectively. "All right," she said at last. "I ain't ever figgered on goin's far as New York, but I might as well go there as anywhere, and I guess I kin keep up with you now your back's kinder sprained. We'll go along together." James Botts gulped.
Doc looked back at me once, proud as sin, an' then he swelled out his lungs, an' run his hand over his whiskers, like you've seen him do. He was gittin' wound up for a good talk. "If I do say it myself, Doc's a good talker, an' I figgered he'd make Moller hustle. I see Doc was goin' to spread hisself to do credit to Shakespeare.
He would have liked the frank face, less hard than that of most riders, and the fine, dark eyes, straight and steady, even if their possessor had not come with the open sesame to Bostil's regard a grand, wild horse, and the nerve to ride him. "Wal, you rode him longer 'n any of us figgered," said Bostil, heartily shaking the man's hand. "I'm Bostil. Glad to meet you."
He thought you was in bed, but you wasn't, and I told him mebbe you'd gone up to the Warden's to lend a hand with Weston." For the first time Tip eyed me inquisitively. "I was up the road," I said evasively. "But tell me about Tim did he leave no word?" "He left me," said Tip, grinning. "He hadn't time to leave nothin' else. We figgered he'd just cover that twelve mile and make the train.
The horse was strangely like Dexter upon whom he had so often rehearsed this bit. He was a bony, drooping, sad horse with a thin neck. "They're takin' ye frum me, old pal takin' ye frum me. You an' me has seen some tough times an' I sort o' figgered we'd keep on together till the last an' now they got me, old pal, takin' me far away where ye won't see me no more "
He stood still as a stone, with his gaze fixed in fascinated fear upon Cleve's gun. A paralyzing surprise appeared to hold the group. "Can you prove what you said?" asked Cleve, low and hard. Joan knew that if Pearce did have the proof which would implicate her he would never live to tell it. "Cleve I don't know nothin'," choked out Pearce. "I jest figgered it was a woman!"
The cowboy had mounted, and Wade walked beside him as he started homeward. They had not progressed far when Wade's keen ears caught the words, "Say, Belllounds, I got it figgered thet you an' your son don't savvy this fellar Wade." "Wal, I reckon not," replied the old rancher. And his son let out a peal of laughter, bitter and scornful and unsatisfied.
"I'm not to be cheated. Some one shot at you who meant business." "Guess I ain't aware jest how he figgered, Rosie." A smile accompanied Seth's words this time. "Well, who did it?" "I never seen him; so I can't rightly say." "But you guess?" "I ain't good at guessin'." The girl laughed. "Very well, I won't bother you." Then after a little silence the man spoke again.
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