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The latter was sitting in a chair at a desk, and when Harlan entered Haydon got up and grinned at him, shallowly, without mirth. "So you got here," he said; "I've been expecting you." "I've been notin' that. That guy you left at the edge of the level to keep an eye on the Rancho Seco didn't cover his tracks. I run onto them an' I saw him hittin' the breeze comin' here.
Then to those in the room: "Them fellers are hittin' the trail in good shape with all they need for six weeks, but when that's gone they'll have ter come to us to fill up again. There aint no other place this side of Nome to buy a hunk of terbac that I knows of, eh, Curley?"
It grew louder, and louder still, until it was well, just deafenin'; then I felt the ship hove, first up and then down; then she touched something, but didn't seem to hit it very hard; I felt a blow, like a heavy sea hittin' her; I heard the fall and rush of water on her deck, and a crash that sounded as if the mainmast had gone over the side, then she struck again harder three or four times, heeling over until she seemed to be on her beam-ends, and flinging me right across the cabin floor; and all the time I could hear that she was bein' swept by awfully heavy seas.
"Maybe I would," Joan yielded, "but as soon as my share in the sheep figures up enough you'll see me hittin' the breeze for Chicago. I want to see the picture galleries and libraries." "I'd like to go through the mail-order house we get our things from up there," Charley said. "The catalogue says it covers seventeen acres!"
"Anyhow, the girl's left, and if she don't pay I'll show her granddad up for what he was. And I'll show you up, too. Yes, I will!" he shouted, as this possibility began to dawn on him. "I'll let folks know how you hid that coat and and all the rest of it." "No, you won't." "Why won't I?" "'Cause you won't dare to. You've been hittin' at a sick man through a girl; neither of 'em could hit back.
"Yu better come with me," coaxed Hopalong, not liking what his friend had said about being afraid of the trail past the ca on and wishing to have some one with whom to talk on his trip. "I'm goin' to have a nice long swim to-morrow night," he added, trying bribery. "An' I'm goin' to try to keep from hittin' my blisters," responded Red.
It is hard enough to rule vagabond people, like the gypsies. To be ruled by them is impossible. The most civilised of the Christian nations overshadowed by the Crescent dared to attack it and was overwhelmed in a catastrophe that seemed as unanswerable as Hittin. In England Gladstone and Gladstonism were dead; and Mr.
"Look at your watch when I'm gone, Cassidy, and be sure you make it a full two hours." "I'll make it two hours and five minutes," said Cassidy. "Hittin' north are you, Jolly Roger?" "I'm hittin' bushward," replied the outlaw. "I'm going where it's plenty thick and hard to travel, Cassidy. Goodby " He was gone.
"What the Gov'ment ought to do," said the mountaineer moodily, "is to get up ev'ry man there is in the country and then hit hard at the enemy and keep on hittin' until there ain't a breath left in him. But sometimes it seems to me that it's the business of gov'ments in war to keep their armies from winnin'!"
Jabez, I'd rather heerd of er cyclone a hittin' us, fer ye well know that there'll be no peace 'til she packs an' starts fer home." "I know it, I know it," Jabez answered, with feeling. "I got er letter in my pocket, an' I been hatin' ter show it to ye, but mebbe ye might as well read it and make what ye can out'n it." Mrs. Brimblecom wiped her glasses and commenced to read the letter.
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