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While we wuz gone this feller, who's bin fired out of our rijimint and another one that he was in, come along and tolled our boys off, intendin' to sneak 'em into another rijimint and git pay for 'em. By great good luck we ketched him in time, just before you come up. You kin ask the boys themselves if I hain't told you the truth." "Good idea," said the General, in his quick, peremptory way. Gen.
"'Well, I says, intendin' to let him know I'm alive an' wakeful that a-way; 'well, whatever my callin' is, at least it ain't been no part of my bringin' up to let mere strangers stroll into the corral an' cinch a saddle onto me for a conversational canter, jest because they're disp'sitioned that a-way.
But it looks like, when he'd written as far as he got, he maybe felt rotten and put it away, intendin' to finish the job the next day. And the plague, smallpox or whatever it was, finished him first." "Fishy enough, by the sound of it, isn't it?" mused Kendric. "Fishy, your hat! There's folks would say fishy to a man that stampeded in sayin' he'd found a gold mine.
It ryled me that, so I just steps up to him, as savage as a meat-axe, intendin' to throw him down-stairs, when the feller turned as pale as a rabbit's belly, I vow I could hardly help laughin', so I didn't touch him at all.
Sanderson's composure began to return; his grin grew wider and more intelligent, and at the sixth repetition of Mary's question he answered, boldly: "I wasn't goin' to tell you about that. You see, ma'am " "Mary!" "You see, Mary, I was goin' to fool Brans dad. I wrote, askin' him for the job, an' I was intendin' to come on, to surprise him.
It's you that is likely to be there," Jack tossed out petulantly. Phyllis Harriman had flung herself down to sob with her head in the pillows. But Kirby noticed that one small pink ear was in the open to take in the swift sentences passing between the men. "I'm intendin' to make it my business," Lane said, his voice ominously quiet. "You're laying up trouble for yourself," Jack warned blackly.
"`That's a queer-lookin' seal, says Gaspard. "`So 'tis, said I. `If there was ever black bears up hereabouts, I would say it was one o' them. "`Put a ball in yer gun, says Gaspard; for ye see, as we had been blazin' at small birds the day before, there was nothing but shot in it. So I put in a ball, and took aim at the beast, intendin' to give it a long shot.
"Excuse me, amigo," I says, handin' out my paw, which he seizes all radiant an' soon, "I ain't intendin' nothin' blunt, nor to slam no door on better acquaintance, but when you all ropes at me about what you refers to as my "callin" that time, I ain't jest lookin' for a stranger to take sech interest in me, an' I'm startled into bein' onp'lite.
Well, being curious to know what sort of a craft she was, I went down the hill, intendin' to go aboard; but before I'd got half way through the cocoanut grove, I heard a horrible yell of a savage. So, thinks I, here comes them blackguard pagans again, to attack the settlement; and before I could hide out of the way, a naked savage almost ran into my arms.
"I guess when y've made up your mind about a man, there ain't no use talkin' t' y', is there?" "No use, Mr. Barber," answered the other. "And this very mornin', while I've still got the breath and the strength t' do it, I mean t' tell the lad the truth!" "I been intendin' t' tell him myself," asserted Barber.
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