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"And if you must chuck things at me, sir," he added, as he examined the title on the back of the missile, "will you avoid as far as possible usin' the sacred volumes of the Army List? It hurts me to tell you this, sir, but I've been well brought up." "What's the time?" asked Hamilton, and his second-in-command examined his watch. "Ten to tiffin," he said. "Good Lord, we've been gassin' an hour.
We're losin' blessed hours gassin'. I'm goin' fer a hand at 'draw. An' say, give us a new deck o' cards. Guess them o' Shaky's needs curry-combin' some. Mr. Tresler," he went on, turning to his old boarder, "mebbe I owe you some. Have you a notion?" "No thanks, Slum," replied Tresler, decidedly. "I'm getting an old hand now." "Ah!"
"Do you know Telza?" "Telza?" "Toltec," he said; "a Toltec from Yucatan. He got it yesterday last night while you was gassin' to your friend, Neal Taggart." She started, recollection filling her eyes. "A Toltec!" she said in an awed voice. "I have heard that they are fanatics where their religion is concerned; your father told me that his that woman Ezela told him.
We mean to send off a ship to Europe every day, besides what we send to other places, and expect to make no end of stamps." "What's the use of gassin', Dick? Tell a feller now." "Honor bright, then, Johnny, I've got a place at ten dollars a week, and I'm goin' to be 'spectable. Why don't you turn over a new leaf, and try to get up in the world?" "I aint lucky, Dick.
"He'd have been all right if I'd been ass enough to play into his hands and gone blowin' me nose and grizzlin', and whinin' about my misfortune, and let him go gassin' about the sadness of it and all that. But because I kept my end up he went for me. "Sadness! He doesn't know what sadness is or misfortune. "My God!
"That Greaser wouldn't do a job like that himself; or Hank Fisher, either. They'd get some one else to take the risk. However, what's th' use gassin' about it? I guess the money's gone for good. But I'm glad they didn't get th' safe open!" "So'm I," chimed in Bud. "Some of our cash would have vanished then."
Dropped down to see how things was runnin'." "Things is quiet," returned Stafford. "There ain't been any cattle missed for a long time. I reckon the new stray-man is doin' some good." Leviatt's eyes glowed. "If you call gassin' with Mary Radford doin' good, why then, he's doin' it!" he snapped. "I ain't heard that he's doin' that," returned Stafford. "I'm tellin' you about it now," said Leviatt.
If he'd cleared out and made for the Islands as I warned him to do, and he settled to, or as good, afore he left us that day at the camp, he'd been safe in some o' them 'Merikin places he was always gassin' about, and all this wouldn't 'a happened. 'He couldn't help that, says Jim; 'he thought they'd never know him from any other swell in Canterbury or wherever he was.
It'll draw more notice on us, and every one 'll be gassin' about this big sale, and all that, till people's set on to ask where the cattle come from, and what not. 'I don't see as it makes any difference, I said. 'Somebody was bound to buy 'em, and we'd have had to give the brands and receipts just the same.
I just came to anchor in the corner of the sofy in the hall, without lettin' on to say that I was there, and took up a Webster's dictionary that was on the table and laid it open keerless like, on my knees, ez if I was sorter consultin' it and kinder dozed off there, listenin' to you fellows gassin' with the young ladies, and that yer Miss Christie just snakin' music outer that pianner, and I reckon I fell asleep.
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