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It was bad enough to have interrupted the young lady." "No, no," said Mr. Harkutt, who seemed to have lost his abstraction in the nervousness of hospitality. "I reckon she's only lookin' after her sick sister. But come into the kitchen, both of you, straight off, and while you're dryin' your clothes, mother'll fix you suthin' hot."
"The one you picked up when you came in last night?" said the boy with discomposing directness. Harkutt flushed slightly and drew his breath between his set teeth. Not only could he place no reliance upon ordinary youthful inattention, but he must be on his guard against his own son as from a spy! But he restrained himself.
"You wasn't rough with him? that might have sent him off, you know," said Peters. "No," said Harkutt, forgetting himself in a quick indignation, "no, I not only treated him to another drink, but gave him" he stopped suddenly and awkwardly. "Eh?" said Peters. "Some good advice, you know," said Harkutt, hastily. "But come, you'd better hurry over to the squire's.
"But," began Harkutt, with a quick nervous laugh, "you don't reckon that because of that he" "Hold on!" said Peters, grimly producing a revolver from his side-pocket with the stock and barrel clogged and streaked with mud. "I found THAT too, and look! one barrel discharged!
"We only need to change our boots and stockings; we've some dry ones in our pack downstairs," said the first speaker hesitatingly. "I'll fetch 'em up and you can change in the kitchen. The old woman won't mind," said Harkutt reassuringly. "Come along." He led the way to the kitchen; the two strangers exchanged a glance of humorous perplexity and followed.
"'For value received, I hereby sell, assign, and transfer to Daniel D. Harkutt all my right, titles and interest in, and to the undivided half of, Quarter Section 4, Range 5, Tasajara Township' hum hum," she murmured, running her eyes to the bottom of the page. "Why, Lord! It's that 'Lige Curtis!" she laughed. "The idea of HIM having property! Why, dad, you ain't been THAT silly!"
Harkutt afterwards said, "as if the child had already touched that hundred thousand." Phemie reddened with a sense of convicted youthful extravagance. "You needn't fear for me," said Harkutt, responding to Clementina's voice as if it were an echo of his own, and instinctively recognizing an unexpected ally. "I've got my own ideas of this thing, and what's to come of it.
The two girls, who were mindful of his previous outburst the evening before, exchanged glances which implied that his manners needed correction for prosperity. "You'll want a heap o' money to build there, Dan'l," said Mrs. Harkutt in plaintive diffidence. "Yes! Yes!" said Harkutt impatiently.
Here, however, Harkutt appeared from the house with the information that he had secured two horses for the surveyors and their instruments, and that he would himself accompany them a part of the way on their return to Tasajara Creek, to show them the road. His usual listless deliberation had given way to a certain nervous but uneasy energy.
"I reckon we must be goin'," said Billings to the others, with marked emphasis. "We're keepin' Harkutt from shuttin' up." "Good-night!" "Good-night!" added Peters and Wingate, ostentatiously following Billings hurriedly through the door. "So long!" The door closed behind them, leaving Harkutt alone with his importunate intruder.
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