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He got two out, an' he bit one off, an' he says: "Harve," says he, "I reckon we better draw fer him. The shortes' gits him." An' they drawed. Well, nobody ever knowed which got the shortes' straw, stranger, but Thar'll be a dancin'-party comin' Christmas night on "Hell fer Sartain." Rich Harp 'll be thar from the head-waters.
All in a flash it had come to me that it would be fairer than ever for me to take part in this thing, because in the first place the Tatums would be two against one if Harve should get back upon his feet and get into the fight; and in the second place Dudley Stackpole didn't know the first thing about shooting a pistol.
Harve, he was watchin' the sun set acros't the marshes when the anamile got away; he argued that sunset was oncommon fine." "Where the old man made his mistake was in sending the boy East to school," said Phelps, stroking his goatee and speaking in a deliberate, judicial tone. "There was where he got his head full of traipsing to Paris and all such folly.
"Dory! dory!" a muffled voice cried through the fog. They cowered again, and the horn dropped from Dan's hand. "Hold on!" cried Harvey; "it's the cook." "Dunno what made me think o' thet fool tale, either," said Dan. "It's the doctor, sure enough." "Dan! Danny! Oooh, Dan! Harve! Harvey! Oooh, Haarveee!" "We're here," sung both boys together.
She sat on the straight chair beside the bed, the chair on which, in neat order, Harvey placed his clothing at night, his shoes beneath, his coat over the back. "I wish you'd go out more, Harvey." "Why? Go out and talk to a lot of driveling fools who don't care for me any more than I do for them?" "That's not like you, Harve." "Sorry." His tone softened.
So at this first shot I swung and peeped out and I seen Harve Tatum down in the dust seemingly right under the wheels of his wagon, and I seen Jess Tatum jump out from behind the wagon and shoot, and I seen Dudley Stackpole come out of the mill door right directly under me and start shooting back at him. There was no sign of his brother Jeffrey.
"There ain't water enough 'tween here an' Hatt'rus to wash the furrer-mold off'n his boots. He's jest everlastin' farmer. Why, Harve, I've seen thet man hitch up a bucket, long towards sundown, an' set twiddlin' the spigot to the scuttle-butt same's ef 'twas a cow's bag. He's thet much farmer. Well, Penn an' he they ran the farm up Exeter way 'twur.
Then run that rope you showed me back there " "That's no way," Tom Platt burst in. "Quiet! He's larnin', an' has not the names good yet. Go on, Harve." "Oh, it's the reef-pennant. I'd hook the tackle on to the reef-pennant, and then let down " "Lower the sail, child! Lower!" said Tom Platt, in a professional agony. "Lower the throat and peak halyards," Harvey went on.
A check to her happy anticipations, a blank, sickening dash of cold water upon her warm and intimate dreams, had been the discovery that Harve Riggs was on the train. His presence could mean only one thing that he had followed her. Riggs had been the worst of many sore trials back there in St. Joseph.
He went straight to Chicago Ike's gambling rooms and found the Skeeter's gang there you know them, Red Mose, the Midget, Harve Thoms, and the Skeeter you remember your fight with them over old Luddy's diamonds! Well, they have not forgotten, either! They are on their way here, now!
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