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He laughed feebly, and the onlookers transferred their attention to him. "Y' see, it was sort o' laffable you comin' along buyin' winter stores in August, an' us jest guessin' what guy the sheriff would be chasin' in the hills. He won't be smellin' around the fort now?" He grinned amiably into the dark face. But deep in his wicked eyes was an assurance which Buck promptly read.
The eyes looked at her long and steadily, and then closed flutteringly and hesitatingly. "We're coming near it," she said, "although he didn't seem sure about that 'Yes." "Look 'ere," said the other, with a sudden inspiration, "there's no good o' this 'Yes' and 'No' guessin' game; Wally and me was both in the flag-wagging class, and we knows enough to there you are."
She can put up at the visitor's house. It 'ud do me good for her to pass the news on to the folk she comes from." But Bat's manner had none of the light confidence of the other. Bitter hatred of the Skandinavia was deeply ingrained in him. He shook his head. "Keep 'em guessin'," he said. "It'll worry 'em that way." Then he passed the letters back, and dropped into the chair that was always his.
Then they're guessin' pretty strong that I'm the party that's put a lot of their scabs outa commission. Macklin's ben their foreman for years an' years why I was in knee pants when he was foreman. Well, he's sick an' all in. They gotta have somebody to take his place. Then, too, I've been with 'em a long time. An' on top of that, I'm the man for the job. They know I know horses from the ground up.
"Then why on earth did you do it?" Joe humped his back with a movement expressive of unconcern. "It don't matter why. Jake's nigh killed me ha'f a dozen times. One o' these days he'll fix me sure. He'll lace hell out o' me to-morrow, I'm guessin', an' when it's done it won't alter nothin' anyways. I've jest two things in this world, I notion, an' one of 'em's drink.
Say, he had, all right, or else he'd swallowed it; for as an easy and fluent converser Alvin headed the bill. Course, it's an odd line he hands out, the kind that keeps you guessin'. In spots it listens like highbrow book stuff, and then again it don't.
'Most everybody thinks Marcellus left his stepdaughter a consider'ble sight of money, don't they?" "Why, yes; I suppose they do." "All right, let 'em think so. 'Twill give 'em somethin' to talk about. They'll be guessin' how rich the child is instead of markin' off in the almanac the days afore Zoeth and me head for the poorhouse." "Humph! I see.
We ain't had a chat for over two months, you know, not a word, and I'd kind of like to " "No doubt," says Aunty. "Are you quite certain, however, that Verona would like it too?" "I'm always guessin' where Vee is concerned," I admits; "but by the latest dope I had on the subject, I expect she wouldn't object strenuous." Aunty sniffs. "It is quite possible," says she.
Why, if you boarded a street car the conductor would be guessin', wild-eyed, how much gold dust it takes to make a nickel, expectin' you to haul out your poke an' look around fer the gold scales. Why, you could git by where a town guy couldn't. You've got a rep a mile long as a fightin', squareshootin' Irishman that's a drivin' fool an' knows the desert like he knows ham-an'-eggs.
"Guess you'd be mighty int'rested if you was sittin' on a roof with the house afire under you, an' you just got a peek of a ladder wagon comin' along, an' was guessin' if it 'ud get around in time." Helen's eyes twinkled. "I s'pose I should," she admitted. "S'pose nuthin'." The saloonkeeper laughed a short, hard laugh. "It's dead sure. But most of them boys are feelin' mighty good.
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