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She felt her heart expand with its wholesome breath, her soul fill with its sustaining truth. She felt What was that? An unmistakable outburst of a drunken song at the foot of the slope: "Oh, my name it is Johnny from Pike, I'm h-ll on a spree or a strike." . . . She stopped as crimson with shame and indignation as if the viewless singer had risen before her.
But as soon as the keeper saw that the man in the water was amusing his prisoner, he leaned over the ship's side and shouted, "Sa-ay, you, don't you know there's skarks in there?" And the swimming man said, "The h-ll there is!" and raced back to the shore like a porpoise with great lashing of the water, and ran up the beach half-way to the palms before he was satisfied to stop.
Sit down thar! Now hear me! I'm not resisting your process. If you had all h-ll as witnesses you daren't say that. I've shut up your foul jaw, and kept it from poisoning the air, and thar's no law in Californy agin it! Now listen. What! You will, will you?" Everything quiet; a bird twittering on the window ledge, nothing more. Gimme some whiskey." Jeff's voice: "When we're through. Now listen!
"One of them circus jumpers stabbed Hal Dudley over the table in Dolores monte shop last night, and got away this morning. We hunted him into the plain and lost him somewhere in this d d dust." "Why, Sue reckoned she saw suthin' just now," said Ira, with a flash of recollection. "Didn't ye, Sue?" "Why the h-ll didn't she say it before?
Where's he gone now?" "To h-ll, for all I care!" "Then I want you to go with him. Listen. If there's a way out of the place, you know it or can find it. I give you two days to do it you and he. At the end of that time the order will be to shoot you on sight. Now take off your boots." The man's dark face visibly whitened, his teeth chattered in superstitious terror.
An incautious whisperer hazarded the paralyzing suggestion of our "meeting another team." To our great astonishment Bill overheard it; to our greater astonishment he replied. "It 'ud be only a neck and neck race which would get to h-ll first," he said quietly.
He turned half-imploringly to the first speaker. "Wasn't he older than me, and bigger? Didn't he have a smooth, round face and little eyes? Didn't he talk hoarse? Didn't he " He stopped hopelessly. "Yes; oh, he wasn't a bit like you," said the man musingly. "Ye see, that's the h-ll of it! You're altogether TOO MANY and TOO VARIOUS fur this camp."
"What does it mean?" repeated the bully, finding his voice in a high falsetto, designed to imitate Kane's. "It means I'm going to play merry h-ll with this shop! It means I'm goin' to clean it out and the blank hair-cuttin' blank that keeps it. What do I want here? Well what I want I intend to help myself to, and all h-ll can't stop me!
But ye couldn't do him a better turn than to go over thar and stay, and if he thought I'd let ye go out o' Remus without axing ye, he'd give me h-ll. Stop, I'll go with ye." I might at least call on the old man, and I accompanied my guide through the still falling snow until we reached a little cottage.
He'll hunt those sneak thieves into h-ll but what he'll get 'em, and," he went on still more slowly, "by the livin' hokey! I reckon, sonny, that's jest how ye'll get your chance to chip in!" "I don't understand," said Brice impatiently.
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