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"Higgins was insensible for several days, and his life was preserved by continued care. His friends extracted two of the balls from his thigh. Two, however, yet remained, one of which gave him a good deal of pain. Hearing afterwards that a physician had settled within a day's ride of him, he determined to go and see him. The physician asked him fifty dollars for the operation.
'Not a grand lady, said Margaret, half smiling. 'Well! Thornton said says he, a day or two ago, "Higgins, have yo' seen Miss Hale?" "No," says I; "there's a pack o' women who won't let me at her. But I can bide my time, if she's ill.
Will see to transfer at once. Wait at Citrus Grove for surveyor who leaves at once. Garman unknown to them. Will look him up." Payne turned over on his side and went to sleep, the yellow bit of paper clenched tightly in his fist. A week later Payne stood alone on the little Flower Prairie searching the flooded lands to the eastward and wondering why Higgins did not come.
And as it was clear by this time that the red-haired person could imagine nothing more horrible, it was settled then and there that he should stay. "There are only two wards," he said. "In the men's a man named Higgins is able to be up and is keeping things straight. And in the woman's ward Mary O'Shaughnessy is looking after them. The furnaces are the worst.
"See, it's a nice tidy little lot of money, ain't it? But it comes in handy; for a feller ain't wed every day of the week." "It air a lot of money," said Higgins, in a contemplative tone. He took up the notes, and fingered them, feeling their texture and looking at the backs. "It air a tidy lot of money," he repeated, and he looked keenly into Will's honest face.
Toward the end Allen managed to put a few adroit questions concerning Gold Run Ranch and the possibility of there being gold upon it. "Waal now," drawled Higgins, spitting upon the ground reflectively, "folks here'bouts used to wonder why old Jed Barcolm didn't get busy and find out if there was gold on thet property, but somehow th' old man never seemed to get interested.
Can you understand that it will mean so much to me it will be the one way you can help me the only way. Help me to save myself, dear, by showing me I have your love. Go!" He looked at her. Then he bowed his head and went. "They've jumped us!" Higgins' great neck was swollen with impotent rage as he greeted Roger's return to camp. "It's my fault, too. Take a good, swift kick at me.
As for the girls, they could hardly wait to get out of earshot of the mine before letting loose a flood of excited comment. "Well, I don't see anything to get so excited about," said Allen, after they had rattled on for several minutes. "Dan Higgins didn't tell us anything we didn't already know or suspect, anyway. He simply confirmed our suspicions, that's all."
That was a brilliant and audacious conception, having the just proportion of sanguinary humour, embodied in Mark Twain's offer, during his lecture on the Sandwich Islands, to show his audience how the cannibals consume their food if only some lady would lend him a live baby. There is the same wildly humorous tactlessness in the delicious anecdote of Higgins.
"But surely there must be something else about potatoes or things like that?" He brightened perceptibly. "Oh, yes, carloads of potatoes, and there's canned stuff. Higgins can pare potatoes, and there's Mary O'Shaughnessy. We could have potatoes and canned tomatoes and eggs." "Fine!" said Jane with her eyes gleaming, although the day before she would have said they were her three abominations.
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