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She's got enough evidence to hang us all if it came to a show-down." "Kate! Delilah." "What you sayin'?" "I say it's damn queer that Jim'll let a girl stay at the camp." "Can't be helped. She's makin' us more miserable than a whole army of men. We had her in the house for a while, an' then Silent rigged up the little shack that stands a short ways " "I know the one you mean."
I always feel that Jim'll have me killed some day unless I go crazy sometime and kill him. He's stuck on me or, at least, he's jealous of me and if he ever found out I had a lover somebody anybody that didn't pay why, it'd be all up with me. Little Maud would go on the grill." She ordered and slowly drank another whiskey before she recalled what she had set out to confide.
Martin rose again. "Don't git scared and leave town, Mr. Harkless," he called out; "Jim'll protect you." Vastly to the young man's relief the band began to play, and the equestrians and equestriennes capered out from the dressing-tent for the "Grand Entrance," and the performance commenced.
I'll pay you." "To-night?" cried the astonished Tom. "Go ober dar in de dark! Can't do dat, Mah'sr Harry. Ise 'fraid to go fru de woods in de dark." "Nonsense," cried Harry. "Nothing's going to hurt you. Come on over." "Can't do it, Mah'sr Harry, no how," said Tom. "Ise got ter tote dis hyar buttermilk home; dey's a-waitin' fur it now. But p'r'aps Jim'll go fur you.
Old Jim'll find it! He'll find the gold. French Pete hid it; Panamint hid it; this here Frog lady is hidin' it. But old Jim'll find it. Old Jim'll find it after all of 'em's dead. Dead! Dead! Dead!" He burst out into shrill laughter, and his horse snorted and tried to pull away. He instantly broke off laughing to curse foully, mouthing obscenities and oaths as he jerked cruelly at the spade bit.
"We'll have it here presently but Jim'll have to help. We've lost a linch-pin in the dark. Come along, Jim." "Shure you're not going to take Jim away and leave me alone with the poor children. Oh, corporal, for the love of the blessed saints don't do that!" "Sho! Kate. We won't be any distance away and there ain't an Indian within ten miles. They wouldn't dare come prowling around at night.
Meantime Jim'll be out makin' money to pay me my fee won't you, Jim? Then your witnesses, will be gone, and nobody'll remember what on earth it's all about. You'll be down in Wall Street practicing real law yourself, and the indictment will kick around the office for a year or so, all covered with dust, and then some day I'll get a friend of mine to come in quietly and move to dismiss.
Jim'll be just right if he gets her. I must say it tickles ME to think o' the way that boy took ahold o' that job back yonder. Four months and a half! Yes, sir " He expanded this theme once more; and thus he continued to entertain the stranger throughout the long drive.
"If it's ever found out that I put you wise, Jim'll have me killed. Yes killed." Susan, reckless by this time, laughed. "Oh, trash!" she said. "No trash at all," insisted Maud. "When you know this town through and through you'll know that murder's something that can be arranged as easy as buying a drink. What risk is there in making one of us 'disappear'? None in the world.
"I'll tell you, Alessandro," said the kindly woman, "I'll give you what money you need to-night, and then, if you say so, Jim'll sell the violin to-morrow, if the man wants it, and you can pay me back out of that, and when you're along this way again you can have the rest. Jim'll make as good a trade for you's he can. He's a real good friend to all of you, Alessandro, when he's himself."
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