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They don't go near the ranch unless they have to. It couldn't have been one of Hardenberg's men; he's not expecting any one." "Did did she say anything else?" asked Jessup, after a brief pause. Buck hesitated. "Only that she was afraid, and wanted us to come quickly. Then the wire went dead as if it had been cut."
How was this suspicion removed? By Miss Jessup herself, who, on being charged with the theft, asserted that she was elsewhere engaged at the time. It was, indeed, exceedingly improbable that Miss Jessup had any agency in this affair, a volatile, giddy, thoughtless character, who betrayed her purposes on all occasions, from a natural incapacity to keep a secret.
Very faulty, very criminal, have I been; to deny that would be adding to the number of my transgressions: but I assure you, Miss Jessup, there have been limits to my follies; there is a boundary beyond which I have never gone. Mrs.
This done he swung himself into the saddle and headed again for Paloma Springs, and as he rode he began to whistle blithely. "The low-down, ornery liar!" sputtered Bud Jessup, face flushed and eyes snapping. "He told me to wait for them bolts if I had to stay here all day.
But Dolly's plans were already arranged, and even if such had not been the case she would scarcely have rejoiced at the prospect of the escort of young Mr. Jessup, who was a mild young idiot engaged in the study of theology. "Thank you, Lady Augusta," she said, cheerfully, "but I have promised Mr. Gowan."
Henry H. Jessup, D.D., Director of Presbyterian Missionary Operations in North Syria, and read by Rev.
We cooked some eggs on it, to show our unconcern, and while we were cooking them up came an American, who had pitched camp in the foolhardiest spot. Guess why to paint it! Guess who he was why, Jessup! Do you remember Jessup? He introduced himself, and I knew him at once; but he did not know me, and I did not enlighten him.
"Just like I thought," said Jessup, as they mounted and swung around the corner. "That guy was planted there a-purpose to get us into the eatin'-house. What's more, I'll bet my saddle he was the same one who came snoopin' around Red Butte camp two weeks ago. Recollect, Gabby said he was small, with black hair an' eyes close together?" Buck nodded.
I pitied her distress and confusion, and waited not for an answer which she was unable to give. "Yes, Miss Jessup, I well know your concern in this transaction. I mean not to distress you; I mean not to put you to unnecessary shame; I have no indignation or enmity against you.
During these discussions the greater part of the single rifle regiment in the army the 2d dragoons, which had been dismounted a year or two before, and designated "Dismounted Rifles" was stationed at Fort Jessup, Louisiana, some twenty-five miles east of the Texas line, to observe the frontier.
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