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In this they failed, for, the distance being fully five hundred yards, the natives evidently believed that it was impossible for a ball to tell at such a distance. On seeing Rance point his rifle at them they set up a yell of derision. There was nothing for it, therefore, but to fire. This Rance did, and one of the Indians fell. Jeffson also fired and hit the chief, who reeled, but did not fall.
I rushed at once to Clark, who was stooping among the dogs, unharnessing: and savagely pushing his shoulder, I exclaimed: 'That beast accuses me of murdering David Wilson! 'Well? said Clark. 'I'd split his skull as clean ! 'Go away, Adam Jeffson, and let me be! snarled Clark. 'Is that all you've got to say about it, then you?
Saying this, Joe heaved a deep sigh, seized the frying-pan, and commenced his self-imposed duties. Our hero took up the bowl of gold-dust, and was about to leave the hut, when Douglas arrested him with "Hallo, Frank, where away? I shall have to shout `stop thief' if you go off like that with the gold." "I'm going to pay our debt to Jeffson," said Frank, with a laugh.
"I had half expected to make out Bigbear Gully to-night, but the road is not safe; too many precipices and steep parts, which require to be passed in daylight." "Very good, Rance; then we had better set about encamping." "'Tis a dreary-looking place," said Frank Allfrey, glancing round him. "'Twill look more cheery when the fire is kindled," said Jeffson.
Before doing so, however, Rance and Jeffson, being the best marksmen, advanced to the edge of the bank with two of the largest rifles and took aim at the Indians, hoping by that means to frighten them away without being obliged to shed more blood.
'Still, if anything did happen to him, you know, it is you I should come straight to, Adam Jeffson. 'Clark, you jest, I said: 'I know really very little of astronomy, or magnetic phenomena. Besides, I am about to be married.... 'But what about your botany, my friend?
But what sometimes strikes me with some surprise is, not that the present condition of the world, with one sole master, should seem the common-place and natural condition, but that it should have come to seem so common-place and natural in nine months. The mind of Adam Jeffson is adaptable. I sat a long time thinking such things by my bed that night, till finally I was disposed to sleep there.
No need to ask why those faces were there. He felt still more uncomfortable when Mrs. Clarke was in the witness-box, and Sir Edward Jeffson took up the cross-examination which he had begun late in the afternoon of the previous day. Dion had very seldom been in a Court of Justice, and had never before been in the Divorce Court. As the cross-examination of Mrs.
"Well, you do look like it, Quin," said Jeffson, stepping back to take a more critical view of him. "What on airth pulled all the flesh off yer bones in this fashion?" "Sickness, no less. Faix, there's more than me is in the same fix.
It was then that Rance became chatty and anecdotal in his tendencies, and Jeffson told marvellous stories of Yankee-land, and Douglas, who devoted himself chiefly to his pipe, became an attentive listener and an awkward tripper up of the heels of those who appeared to be "drawing the long-bow," and Meyer looked, if possible, more solid and amiable than at other times, and Frank enjoyed himself in a general way, and made himself generally agreeable, while Joe Graddy became profoundly sententious.
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