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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Wait till my Aunt Rachel comes up here," Nettie promised. "I'm going to beg an invitation for you girls to visit Merredith." "But it will be hot weather, then," said Heavy; "and I don't want to miss Light-house Point." "And I'm just about crazy to get back to Silver Ranch," said Ann Hicks. "Me for Cliff Island," cried Belle Tingley. "No land of cotton for mine, this summer."
‘Matilda Maplesone,’ responded the other, doing the same. ‘I marry her to-morrow morning,’ said Hicks. ‘It’s false,’ rejoined his companion: ‘I marry her!’ ‘You marry her?’ ‘I marry her!’ ‘You marry Matilda Maplesone?’ ‘Matilda Maplesone.’ ‘Miss Maplesone marry you?’ ‘Miss Maplesone! No; Mrs. Maplesone.’
"For failin' to stand up like a man, Scraggsy, an' battle Hicks an' Flaherty," he informed the culprit, and tossed him over to McGuffey to be held in position for him. "Don't, Gib. Please don't," Scraggs wailed. "It ain't comin' to me from you. I never heard you callin' a-tall. Honest, I never, Gib. Have mercy, Adelbert.
A great crowd was present the whole populace of Gunsight was waiting to see their hero come home and as the train rolled in and Rimrock dropped off, in the excitement she found tears in her eyes. But then, that was nothing; Woo Chong, the restaurant Chinaman, was weeping all over the place; and Old Hassayamp Hicks, hobbling off through the crowd, wiped his eyes and sobbed, unashamed.
Hicks looking a bit uncomfortable but much improved, in a suit of new clothes, and carrying a suitcase, hurried to catch the flyer for the West. A few hours later Owen was wishing a happy journey to Pauline at the same station rail.
The vice-consul was a very young man, short and thin, and light-haired; his father had held the situation before him, and he had been appointed his successor because nobody else had thought the situation worth applying for. Nevertheless, Mr Hicks was impressed with the immense responsibility of his office.
The puzzled Irishman gazed in mute amazement during the unusually long period of half a minute, for Benjamin Hicks still sat there, glittering in the light of the camp-fire, grave as a Redskin, and busy as ever with the bones!
What I say is, everybody 'spec's What I say is, circumstances don't alter cases; lady's a lady What I want do is beg you fellows' pardon beg her pardon if anything I said that firs' morning " "Go away!" cried Staniford, beginning to whiten round the nostrils. "Hold your tongue!" Hicks fell back a pace, and looked at him with the odd effect of now seeing him for the first time.
The next morning Alfred Hicks was a little late in getting to his work at the bank so late, in fact, that he had only time to wave a cordial greeting to his new friends in their cages as he passed. He paused, however, that evening, with a pot of flowering bloom for Mrs. Pennold's dingy, not over-clean window-sill, and a packet of tobacco which he shared generously with his host.
"Damned unfortunate; but one must expect some sort of a handicap in a game like this. Before I'm done with him, he'll look me full in the face and wonder if he's ever seen me before. I wasn't always a detective. I was a carpenter once, as you know, and I'll take to the tools again. As soon as I'm handy with them I'll hunt up lodgings in Hicks Street.
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