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Before the books was opened for registration the gover'ment give the Indians choice of a homestead apiece, and they picked off all this land down here. Oh, well, on up the river they's a little left, and if I draw a low number I know where to put my hand on a piece." "It looks nice and green here," said she, admiring the feathery vegetation, which grew as tall as the stage along the roadway.
Then I find out one day that John Dicey is dead, and I get from the gover'ment a hundred dollars of the money he stole. It was found on him when he was killed. I work for six months longer, and now I come back with Luc's money." She drew from her pocket a packet of notes, and put it in Luc's hands.
I coulda told yuh, bo, they wouldn't take it as a gift. She's a back number now a has-been, from the gover'ment viewpoint. Why don't you keep it? What yuh want to sell it for, f'r cat's sake? She's a gold mine if you know how to work it, bo take it from me." "Well, I wish to thunder you'd show me the gold, then," Johnny retorted crossly, pulling on his boots. "Lend us a smoke, will yuh, old top?
Either the U.P. would go beyond the limits of the Law and then I'd jump on it, suppress its papers, and clap it into quod or it'd take it lyin' down. Whichever 'appened it'd be all up with the U. P. I'd a broke its chain off my neck for good. But I ain't the Gover'ment, an Gover'ment's got tender feet.
He peeped out from the bush at the very moment that Latimer's glance was on it. There was nothing left for him to do but to come forward with unconcern. 'I've been looking for you for the last hour! said Latimer with a glare in his eye. 'Sorry to hear that, said Hardman. 'I've been out for a stroll, to look for more hid tubs, to deliver 'em up to Gover'ment.
"You can't do it alone," she said. "Do you want to risk all and lose?" He frowned in self-suppression. "Long way, I no can get dere in time?" he asked. She thought a moment. "No; it can't be done by the long way. But there is another way a third trail, the trail the Gover'ment men made a year ago when they came to survey. It is a good trail. It is blazed in the woods and staked on the plains.
He's been hangin' around the house a good deal an' doin' little things like a man will when he's nuts about a woman. For instance, Mr. Warren wasn't no investing man: s'far's I know he had all his money in gover'ment bonds and such like investments. But he sank some money into them woolen mills that Mr. Lawrence owns. And also he pretended that he liked that kid sister of Mrs.
Many years ago when thar come along a gover'ment surveyor, a changein' the line between North Caroliny an' Tennessee, he dragged his chain through the old feller's house, putting one room in one state an' lettin' the other room stay in the state it was.
"Why, ma'am, he comes runnin' down to the Cuartel not an hour ago, all excited up about you people. 'Jarrow, he says to me, 'I've got a party who'll go to my island if they can git your schooner and yours is the only one to be had for love or money. I know you'll lose on it, seein's you got a new gover'ment hay charter comin' your way, but can't you strain a p'int for an old friend?
Then I find out one day that John Dicey is dead, and I get from the gover'ment a hundred dollars of the money he stole. It was found on him when he was killed. I work for six months longer, and now I come back with Luc's money." She drew from her pocket a packet of notes, and put it in Luc's hands.
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