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"An' outer a private car, too wouldn't dat bump you! An' say, wait till you see de Doc t'row up his dukes when he listens to me handin' out me sterilized English!" The brakeman and a kindly-hearted fellow passenger helped the Flopper into the train and thereafter for an hour or more, in a first class coach, the Flopper held undisputed sway.
I guess there ain't another like it in the country. I been driving back and forth for nigh on twelve years and I know it pretty well now. Know lots o' the boys, too. Nice fellers, they be. Always have a good word for me. Generous, they be, too. Always handin' me a tip and thinkin' nothing of it." Steve nudged Tom with his elbow. "That's fine," he said. "You must be pretty rich by now." "Rich?
"Can't help that," came the blustering answer. "You'll have to hit the trail. I don't take orders from no one but Presby." A shade of annoyance was depicted on Townsend's face as he continued to ignore the watchman's arrogance, and asked: "And please tell us, who is Presby?" "Presby? Who's Presby? What are you handin' me? You don't know Presby?"
"Well, well, Arvilly, set down, set down," sez I, for she wuz rampagin' round the room back and forth, "set down, and here," sez I, handin' her a bottle, "smell of the camfire, Arvilly, you look bad," and she did look frightful bad, pale and fiery, and burnin' mad at sunthin' or somebody.
Handin' you a little the best of it to make the odds even!... Once more, will you be game?" "Wade, I'll not fight I'm going " replied Belllounds, and he moved as if to turn. "Halt!..." Wade leaped at the white Belllounds. "If you run I'll break a leg for you an' then I'll beat your miserable brains out!... Have you no sense?
'Read her out, Dan; I'd play the hand, but I has to ride herd on the culprit. "'I can't read it, says Boggs, handin' the note to Tutt; 'I can't read readin', let alone writin'. But I'm free to say, even without hearin' that document none, that I shorely hesitates to string this party up. Bein' tongueless, an' not hearin' a lick more'n adders, somehow he keeps appealin' to me like he's locoed.
"If ye takes it that way, Denny, then ye'd best be handin' the lad over to the jedges to be tried for mutiny," suggested the other, quietly. "But if ye wants my opinion, ye'll leave him be." "Leave him be?" "Aye. He bain't worth troublin' about. Bat him now an' agin, if he tries to knife ye, an' maybe he'll follow Jack Quinn. But this harbor bain't a ship, lad.
She thanked Kenneth for his congratulations, and then said: "As to my not needin' the money you've brought me, young man, I take leave to say that I do need it; so you'll obleege me by handin' it over." Kenneth obeyed in surprise not unmingled with disappointment in finding such a grasping spirit in one whom he had hitherto thought well of.
She very kindly explained that undying affection, tender devotion, and the protection of manly arms were all tommyrot; that she really didn't care to be enshrined queen of anyone's heart or home. She wishes to avoid any step that may hinder the development of her own personality. You er get that, I trust, Torchy?" "Clear as mush," says I. "Was it just her way of handin' you the blue ticket?"
"Ther's dollars an' dollars ther', but 'tain't nuthin' to wot's to come. Say, I got another cache o' gold waitin' back ther' at my shack, but I ain't handin' it to Beasley," he went on cunningly. "Oh, no, not me! I'm a business guy, I am. I hold that up, an' all the rest I git from my patch, an' I'm goin' to cash it in Leeson Butte, at the bank, fer a proper exchange. See?
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