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That cloud of witnesses was banked against the green weather- boarding, to behold her ignominy. "Mr. Clinton," said Fran, all sweetness, all allurement, "I am going to ask of you a first favor. I left my hat up in Miss Bull's room and " "I will get it," said Abbott promptly. "Lem me!" Jakey pleaded, with fine admiration. "Well, I rather guess not!" cried Bob.
Cover me with the dear old cloak Jakey gave me," Amy said sleepily. "You'll help me find him." Eloise didn't know who Jakey was, or what connection he had with the cloak; but she answered promptly, "Yes, I'll help you find him and everything." Thus reassured, Amy fell asleep, while Eloise sat by her until startled by the entrance of Mrs. Biggs.
But no sooner had the latter gone than the lode-star of Langdon's self-interest flickered clearly in view, and he promised Mr. Jakey, mentally, a long trip to a very hot place, indeed, rather than a surreptitious partnership over Diablo. It was some little time after this, while Faust was feeling somewhat irritated at the absence of information from Langdon, that he had an interview with Crane.
It's a hell of a town but it's got some fine wimmen; yes, and a few straight banks, too. You're no crabber or piker; I can see that. You go to the North Star. Tell Frank that Jakey sent you. They'll treat you white. You be sure and say Jakey sent you. But for Gawd's sake keep out of the Big Tent." "The Big Tent?" I uttered. "Why so?" "They'll sweat you there," he groaned lugubriously.
It was sure that Jakey was to follow them soon and spend as much time with them as he pleased. "Stay always, if you will. We owe you everything," Eloise said to him, when at parting he stood on the platform with his "God bress you, Mas'r Harcourt an' Miss Amy, an' Miss t'other one," until the train was out of sight.
I am so glad to cry." For some moments she wept on, until Jakey began to soothe her with his "Doan' cry no mo', honey. Summat has done happened you bad, but it's done gone now, an' we're all here, me an' I do' know her name, but she's you uns, an' Mas'r Mason an' de oder gemman. We're all here, an' de light is breakin'. Doan' you feel it, honey?"
Oh, oh, how happy they'll be then! But you have a home and a mother, Jakey, and a place in the world, so I say 'Hurrah! because you belong to somebody, and, best of all, you're not a girl, but a boy to strike out straight from the shoulder." Jakey was dissolved; tears burst their confines.
By owning The Dutchman Crane could whipsaw the situation; forestall Porter in the betting by backing Lucretia down to a short price himself, and have Jakey Faust lay with a full vigor against the Hanover colt. He would thus confine Porter to stake money, and Ringwood would still lie chained to his bank by the golden links he had forged on the place.
"Think I'll refuse Fran's first request?" He sped upstairs, uncommonly light of foot. "Now," whispered Fran wickedly, "let's run off and leave him." "I'm with you!" Abbott whispered boyishly. They burst from the building like a storm, Fran laughing musically, Abbott laughing joyously, Jakey laughing loudest of all.
It would be just like the play of Fate for the horse to turn out good, now that John Porter had got rid of him. When evil fortune set its hard face against a man he could do little toward making the wicked god smile, and Porter, even when he was about, was a poor hand at compelling success. Jakey Faust learned of Diablo's transition from Porter's to Langdon's stable.
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