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"No," said Jake, "I don't think so. The subject, so to speak, cropped up and he offered us the information." Then he talked of something else and soon afterwards the coast receded as they crossed a wide bay. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when they reached the farthest point from land.
"'A nigger man they call Uncle Jake buys her, I says. "'Uncle Jake! she says. 'Are you sure? Was he an old man with poor eyesight? "'He was old all right, I says. 'But I don't notice about his eyes. He give twenty dollars fur her. "'Is that all she brought? she says. "'Well, she brings more, I says, 'only the ole man makes a speech 'n' tells 'em he's buying her fur you.
And once he said: "Hear him beg! and yit if we hadn't got the best of him and tied him he'd a killed us both. And what FOR? Jist for noth'n. Jist because we stood on our RIGHTS that's what for. But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner. Put UP that pistol, Bill." Bill says: "I don't want to, Jake Packard.
Then Jake Hough and his heavy hand, the flying monocle, and his disdainful, insulting reply; the sight of the pistol in the hand of Suzon's father; then a rush, a darkness, and his own fierce plunge towards the door, beyond which were the stars and the cool night and the dark river.
"Why, Jake," replied the apparition-whom I have thought it useless to describe "don't you know me?" "I confess that your countenance is familiar," returned my friend, "but I cannot at this moment recall your name. I never forget a face, but names I cannot remember." "Jake!" rumbled the spectre with sepulchral dignity, a look of displeasure crawling across his pallid features, "you're foolin'."
A spy, and we hang that sort o' people. Come, be quick." "Spies! that's just it, Lieutenant. I came here to-night to tell you about spies." "Then why the mischief don't you do it? You'll drive me mad with your halting tongue. Speak man, or I'll choke you!" and with that the officer stood up and bent forward over Jake, to that young man's serious discomfiture. "They's some spies here " Jake began.
"Ef you'd only come a little sooner!" sighed Jake, "you'd hev hed a chance that would hev made ev'rything seem to go right till Judgment Day. I'll show yer." Jake opened the saloon-door, and there sat Sunrise, as bright, modest, and pleasant-looking as ever.
Well, I'll stand for a thousand dollars, but that's my best." Jake looked at Jim and both hesitated. A thousand dollars was a useful sum, and in a way they would get it for nothing. Cartner and Dawson would pay, but if the offer were refused, their opposition must be reckoned on. It was obvious that they did not mean to allow poaching on the preserves they claimed.
"That's where I saw the dandy pumps with buckles on, and the swellest silk stockings. Louise, I'll get the bag for you, because I'm going over to Jake's to buy some of those things!" "Oh," exclaimed Louise, in a gale of laughter. "Those are our pumps and stockings. They were taken off from the beach." "You don't say?" and Kitty's tone allayed any possible suspicion. "That's just like Jake.
"Because well, because I hadn't sense enough to refuse, I suppose." "Ah, I understand. Jake Harnach." Tresler shrugged. "I came out purposely to speak to you," the girl went on, in a quiet, direct manner. There was not the least embarrassment now. She had made up her mind to avoid all chance of misunderstanding. "I want to put matters quite plainly before you.
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