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"It isn't safe for a girl like you to go about alone after nightfall in a place like this." The girl's eyes sought his wonderingly in the darkness. "Me?" she ejaculated. "Stranger, I came to this town when it was nothing but four shacks and a gusher, and I know everyone in it, white, yellow and Mex. Not safe? Why every dog knows Gentleman Geoff's Billie!" "You?" he stammered. "That's me.
But lately, since that blessed little oil town has been croppin' up like a bed of mushrooms round my big gusher or rather, the company's gusher, as it is now I've had my mind on that more than anything else, unless it's been my ditches.
We were glad to change the subject, and going to the window, pointed out the beauties of the prospect, on which the spectacles appeared to me to rest with curious indifference. "You know Mr. Gusher?" said our visitor. We were obliged to say that we had not the pleasure of Mr. Gusher's acquaintance. "The loss is yours, I assure you," said Mrs. Pardiggle with her commanding deportment.
"I thought you were never coming," she said, changing the subject. "So did I, by George! I thought the fellow'd never go." "Was it a deputation to say good-bye?" "Lord, no, Mrs. Gaylor! It was a chap you don't know, I guess. I only ran up against him lately, since I sold my gusher to the United Oil Company. He's their lawyer and does some work for the railroad too.
"One thing I'm hoping won't happen, at any rate while we're up here," Toby now went on to say, reflectively; "and that is to have the woods get afire. Whee! if that ever did happen, goodbye to Miss Priscilla's gold mine, in the way of an oil gusher bonanza; for the whole country might get ablaze." "Not much danger of that, I guess," Jack assured him.
It became, with them, a problem of how to hold on, how to finance from day to day until production returns overtook exploitation expense a problem that put gray hairs in their heads and lines about their eyes. They were forced to many expedients. One big well would set them up, and there was always that danger, for scarcely a week went by without news of some gigantic gusher.
Gusher's antecedents. Her mind had, however, for some time been engaged trying to solve the mysterious agency that had brought him into business relations with her father. Being a girl of fixed character and good common sense, it was only natural that she should entertain an instinctive dislike for Gusher, in whom she saw a nature, if not really bad, at least frivolous and artificial.
Louis Pinto was his real name; but he regarded names as a matter of no consequence, and used the names of rich and respectable gentlemen whenever a necessity demanded." "You shall give me zat hand," replied Gusher, extending his hand and taking Romer's, with an air of refreshing coolness. "You bring ze gentleman to my mind.
Come for as long as you can but even a few days will be better than nothing, if you can't spare more. Nick can show you his gusher or rather the gusher that was his; and Lucky Star City, which you'll think queer and interesting, I expect, just as Nick does though it seems vulgar and hideous to me. By the way, Nick, there's a new school-teacher at Lucky Star.
Zen I give ze grand rascal one pistol." Here Mr. Gusher flourished his right hand. "You shall give me ze satisfaction as one gentleman he give to ze oser, I say. I gives to ze grand rascal one small sword. I say I shall have ze satisfaction one gentleman he will give to ze oser. No, madam, ze grand rascal, he is one small coward. He will not give me ze satisfaction.
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