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What can she have been thinking about herself to let her mother go running foot-loose round the country, nursing these changing delusions?" "She couldn't very well help herself," put in Miss Smith. "The daughter is in an asylum put there five weeks ago on the mother's complaint." "But heavens alive, how could that have happened?" "Very easily under the laws of this state," she answered grimly.
And Joan, feeling the break final, although she did not admit it, forsook her own pleasures while she helped Patricia and clung to Sylvia. "Pat has sublet her rooms," she confided to Sylvia one day, "and is coming here until our lease is up; so you are foot-loose, my precious Syl, and God bless you!" In August Sylvia departed and Joan and Patricia set up housekeeping together.
"I think you're right, but I'd like to know how you get at it." "Well, I ain't no Old Sleuth nor Sherlock Holmes," said the sheriff, "but I've lived some years out of doors. I ain't workin' out no chain of reasonin'; I'm just usin' my eyes and a bit of savvy. This is how she works out: "McHale and McCrae is both foot-loose, and both know this part of the country.
Well, it's up to Gene. And they're goin' to back him. I reckon, Miss Hammond, there'd be dead Greasers round that camp long ago if Nels and Monty were foot-loose. They're beholdin' to Gene. That's plain. And, Lord! how it tickles me to watch them! Both packin' two forty-fives, butts swingin' clear. There's twenty-four shots in them four guns. And there's twenty-three guerrillas.
Now I reckon he's gone an' so let luck take him good, bad, er indifferent. Won't you let him hit his own trail, foot-loose?" "I'd like to see him arrested and jailed," said Gus, "but for you and because of what you'll do for George and your being so good to Bill and me, I'll keep mum on it." "Good, me lad. An' now you git back to George an' tell him to keep Thad's name out of it.
The action convinced Neale that he had held a little gun in each hand. "I saw him draw," he said. "You saved his life! ... Nevertheless, I appreciate your action. My name is Place Hough. Will you drink with me?" "Sure.... My name is Neale." They approached the bar and drank together. "A railroad man, I take it?" asked Hough. "I was. I'm foot-loose now."
She was here now, in a five-dollar-a-week housekeeping room, foot-loose, free as the wind. That was Fyfe's last word to her. He had come with her to Seattle and waited patiently at a hotel until she found a place to live. Then he had gone away without protest. "Well, Stella," he had said, "I guess this is the end of our experiment.
She seems awfully foot-loose, somehow, poor thing; and I hope the marriage which her father suddenly contrived between her and this young American will turn out well for her. He's an odd sort of fellow to me, somehow." "Where does he come from?" "I don't know, some misty place in the West somewhere, I believe.
This worried him an uncertainty that became an obsession until he could no longer master it with reason. He had ridden free from present hazard, unscratched and foot-loose, with many hours of darkness before him in which to evade the posse. He would be a fool to turn back.
Being thus foot-loose, and having repeatedly notified President Grant of my purpose, I wrote the Secretary of War on the 8th day of May, 1874, asking the authority of the President and the War Department to remove my headquarters to St. Louis.
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