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Hilda saw him cross the creek below the bridge, ride up to the foot-path gate, hitch his old mare, and come straight to her where she sat in a sturdy way that fixed her interest instantly and keenly. "I've come over hyeh to stay with ye," he said simply. St. Hilda hesitated and distress kept her silent. "My name's Jason Hawn. I come from t'other side o' the mountain an' I hain't got no home."
No," said Clayton; "but I like it very much." Do ye? " she asked, in surprise. " Why, I 'lowed you folks from the settlemints thought hit was mighty scraggy down hyeh." "Oh no. These mountains and woods are beautiful, and I never saw lovelier beech-trees. The coloring of their trunks is so exquisite, and the shade is so fine," he concluded, lamely, noticing a blank look on the old woman's face.
He had looked away again to the hills behind Sunk Creek ranch, to which our walking horses had now almost brought us. "As for parsons " the gesture of his arm was a disclaiming one "I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right.
After an hour, during which he was completely taciturn, he said: "I reckon maybe this hyeh lonesome country ain't been healthy for Em'ly to live in. It ain't for some humans. Them old trappers in the mountains gets skewed in the haid mighty often, an' talks out loud when nobody's nigher 'n a hundred miles." "Em'ly has not been solitary," I replied. "There are forty chickens here."
She was quite satisfied with these, and passed a quiet day with them in a box. This was not fair, the Virginian asserted. "You ain't going to jus' leave her fooled that a-way?" I did not see why not. "Why, she raised them puppies all right. Ain't she showed she knows how to be a mother anyways? Em'ly ain't going to get her time took up for nothing while I'm round hyeh," said the cowpuncher.
"It was jes' an incident in one o' these feuds that you were talkin' of, an' I'm goin' to tell yo' about it, to show yo' what a mount'neer's idee o' honor is like. Thar was a family livin' on the other side o' the Ridge, not a great ways from hyeh, by the name o' Calvern, an' in some way or other I never heard the rights of it they took to shootin' up the Beaupoints every chance that come along.
Chad had cut off the rawhide string, but the Sheriff caught Jack by the nape of the neck. "You won't git away from me agin, I reckon." "Well, I reckon you ain't goin' to shoot him," said Chad. "Leggo that dawg." "Don't be a fool, Jim," said old Joel. "The dawg ain't goin' to leave the boy." The Sheriff let go. "Come on up hyeh," said Chad. "I got somethin' to show ye."
"Misto Richmond," he said, with great earnestness, "you may not know it, but three times since thet long-legged jay-hawker's been gone you hev plainly and if my ears do not deceive me, an' they never hev you have plainly called me 'Captain Wells. I knowed yo' little trick whilst he was hyeh, fer I knowed whut the feller had come to tell ye; but since he's been gone, three times, Misto Richmond "
"This is the fust time in five year, Jason Hawn, you an' me come together, an' you know whut I swore I'd do," cackled old Aaron. Old Jason's voice was still deep. "Well, you've got yo' chance now, you old bag o' bones! Them two boys o' ours air all right but thar hain't no manhood left in this hyeh war o' ours. Hit's just a question of which hired feller gits the man who hired the other feller.
"I expected only to scare him," said Clayton. The gun will carry twice that far." Hit's jest as well ye didn't hit him," said the old woman. 'Hit air five dollars fine to kill a buzzard around hyeh. I'd never thought that little thing could shoot." "It shoots several times," said Clayton. "Hit does whut?"
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