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Don't say nothin' about my quittin'. All hands'll know it to-morrow, and that's soon enough." Simeon departed, his brain in a whirl. Captain Solomon Berry no longer depot master! The world must be coming to an end. He remained at his work until supper time. During the meal he ate and said so little that his wife wondered and asked questions. To avoid answering them he hurried out.
They must have her again, they told her, at parting, for the wedding; which would be in May. "I may be a thousand miles off, by that time. But I shall think of you, all the same, wherever I am. My work is coming. I feel it. There's a smell of blood and death in the air; and all the strong hearts and hands'll be wanted. You'll see it." And with that, she was gone.
He had only meant that perhaps one of them might be out in service, but to her mind came only the thought of a longer and a final parting, such as they had so narrowly escaped, and the thought touched and awed her. "Very well," she said at last; "if you are all set on a Christmas dinner, I'll cook it for you. I can't undertake more, my hands'll be full 'tending on your father."
"I have been looking out for a chum like you ever since I came here, and we'll have fine times together, my boy! But, come along now, and put your hands under the pump the cold water will pain you at first, but it will do a world of good, and to-morrow the hands'll feel all right."
All my life long the good Lord has provided fer me better than I desarved, an' if He cares fer the flowers an' the birds He'll not abandon an old man, never ye fear that. But thar'll be wark, Alec, an' these rough hands'll not be idle as long as life is in this carcase." "May God bless ye, Pete!" and Alec stretched out his horny right hand.
If I do do it, if I let Leander off, all hands'll say that I did it because I was afraid of Phineas and the rest would say the other thing. It puts me in a devil of a position.
But there ain't anything can keep me from manhandlin' that kid over there." He opened and shut his fingers slowly. "I sort of yearn to get at him!" Haines recognized defeat. "But you haven't another gun hidden on you, Jim? You won't try to shoot him up?" "No," said Silent. "If I had a gun I don't know but I haven't a gun. My hands'll be enough!"
Eugene had not thought to provide himself with gloves though, and his hands were being cruelly torn. He stopped once to pick a splinter out of his thumb and Jeffords, who was coming up, asked, "Ain't cha got no gloves?" "No," said Eugene, "I didn't think to get any." "Your hands'll get pretty well bunged up, I'm afraid. Maybe Joseph'll let you have his for to-day, you might go in and ask him."
"Ah-h, McTee, I see where my hands'll fit on your throat." "Come," McTee answered without raising his voice; "there's a corner of the beach where a current stands in close by the shore. You've been a traveling man, Harrigan. When I've killed you, I'll throw your body into the sea, and the tide will take you out to see the rest of the world."
His face was blazing red and he seemed to be boiling inside, but he did not say another word. Jed seized the opportunity to continue. "I I just want to get this all plain, Sam," he put in, hastily. "I just want it so all hands'll understand it, that's all. You went over to Sylvester Sage's in Wapatomac and he paid you four hundred dollars.
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