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"He was," agreed Captain Jeb; "a little rough-talking sometimes, but all sailors are." "Well, it's a rough life," said Brother Bart, recalling his own late experience. "It's little chance it gives you to think or pray. But the old man ye talk of prayed; I am sure of that. The beads here bear token of it." "Aye," answered Captain Jeb.
Then he began again with one hand over his heart and the other tearing at the thin covering of hair on his head, "'Ef you-all refuse me Ah shall end this wretched life no, no! Ah shall end this wretched EXISTENCE! What is life widdout love? Oh, beau-chus widder, will you-all be mine?" As Jeb spoke his last lines, he smirked to himself and said: "Thar now, Jeb!
Ah've hearn say how gals go about them streets lookin' fer a handsome young beau! No-siree! Ef Jeb goes, Ah goes too!" And she went! Sary furnished endless amusement to the Brewster group as the train sped on its way from Oak Creek to Denver.
"Waal, I reck'n I'm glad ye've come the hull three on ye," Jeb Rushmore drawled. "That's some trail over that hill," said Roy, as they rowed across. "We lost it about a dozen times." "Thet? Thet ain't no trail," said Jeb. "Thet's a street a thurafare. I'm a-goin' t' test you youngsters out follerin' thet on a dark night." "Have a heart!" said Roy. "I could never pick that out with a flashlight."
Well, Jim let's go an' Sallie puts her arm aroun' Jim's neck an' whispers a long while jes so; an' 'f you happen to wake up anywhar to two o'clock in the mornin' you'll see jes that a-goin' on. Brother, that's settin' up. Well, Jeb Somers, as I was a-sayin' in the premises, 'lowed he'd rack right over on Cutshin an' set up with Polly Ann comin' Christmas night.
But, you see, John, Ah ain't a marryin' man, so Ah wants to escape." "Jeb, I have a plan! Suppose we get Tom to flirt with Sary and then let her understand she is fickle, so that you won't consider her for a mate," whispered John, thinking of the fun he could have by playing this joke on his friend. Jeb gave John a scornful look that meant volumes. "D'ye think Sary would fall fer it?
But the moment Jeb found he could extract the crushed foot from the side that had been buried in the stone, the other man ceased prodding, as one little prod too many might turn the whole loose lava upon them again. "Lower another rope fer the stranger!" shouted the hired man. And soon the limp body was drawn slowly up to safety. "What about the other one, Jeb?" shouted Mr. Brewster.
Look steady as ye can, Neb. Yer weather eye was always clarer than mine. What d'ye see now?" "Nothing," came the answer again; and then the dull tone quickened: "Aye I do, I do! Thar's suthing sticking out of the waves like a broken mast." "The Old Light," said Captain Jeb, hoarsely, "all that's left of it. Last Island has gone under, as you said it would, Neb, clean swallowed up.
As the riders passed the Rainbow Cliffs, the rays of the rising sun gilded their peaks, and the girls exclaimed at the beauty of the stones as they reflected the myriad colors of a rainbow. Then on down through the Devil's Causeway and out on the Sand Trail, rode the adventurers, until they saw Jeb and Mike riding to meet them.
When these two troops reached camp they found the tall scout Archer waiting for them. How much he knew or suspected it would be difficult to surmise. "Uncle Jeb told me I might show you up to the hill," he said. "Some of you fellows came from Ohio, I understand. You're all to bunk up on the hill." "I guess that's a mistake," Roy said.
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