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'The flood's tearing east, whispered Davies; 'sit still. We heard no more, and, after a few minutes' drifting 'What luck? said Davies. 'One or two clues, and an invitation to supper. The clues I left till later; the invitation was the thing, and I explained its urgency. 'How will they get back? said Davies; 'if the fog lasts the steamer's sure to be late.
"Without cheap foreigners they couldn't afford all this hyeh new gradin'," the Southerner continued. "Grading! Can't you tell when a flood's been eating the banks?" "Why, yes," said the Virginian, sweet as honey. "But 'ain't yu' heard of the improvements west of Big Timber, all the way to Missoula, this season? I'm talkin' about them." "Oh! Talking about them. Yes, I've heard."
Time and place were appointed where I was to meet them in the middle of March, and I felt as if I were made. I remember my mother and sisters twitted me about the swagger that came into my walk, after the receipt of Flood's letter, and even asserted that I sat my horse as straight as a poker.
Flood's bitter smile gave him politely the lie. "He drank, too," she went on, after a cold pause. "I had always supposed it was the one thing those natives didn't do. We thought of contesting the will on the ground of undue influence and his mind being gone." "Did Lionel leave them much, then?" "'Them'?" she queried. "His friends over there the natives."
The spokesman of the trail cutters met Flood's invitation to dinner with excuses about the pressing demands on his time, and urged, if it did not seriously interfere with our plans, that he be allowed to inspect the herd before crossing the river. His reasons seemed trivial and our foreman was not convinced.
As I have already observed, the fall of all the creeks from Flood's Creek had been to the eastward, and from what we could judge at our extreme north, the dip of the country was also to the eastward.
As I have already observed, there were a great variety of the cereal grasses about Flood's Creek, but they merely occupied a small belt on either side of it. All the grasses were exceedingly green, and there was a surprising appearance of verdure along the creek. Beyond it, on both sides, were barren stony plains, on which salsolaceous plants alone grew.
A succession of struggles took place, chiefly over Money Bills, the more independent members, under Flood's leadership, claiming for the Irish House of Commons the complete control of the national purse, a claim as uniformly resisted by the Government.
"Of course," said Briscoe, with another groan full of misery. "I forgot all that." "I say," said Dellow, as they came within sight from the lower terrace once more, "something's happened while you've been away." "What is it?" said the captain. "Tide's turned, and the water's flowing steadily the other way." "That means the flood's gone down then," said the captain.
But together with the cruelty of glass-splinters, ice-spars scratching her set face, came the shock of an inner splinter: an inkling, somehow, that Una was helpless, could not follow, that, battered by concussion, tossing like a log upon the flood's breast, her senses had almost left her. Many waters cannot quench love the love of a daughter for her genius-father.
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