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And he added shortly, "I'm lonesome." They sat in a long silence, Kate with her hands clasped about a knee and looking off at the mountain. She turned to him after a while: "Do you like me, Bowers?" "I shore do." Then she asked with quiet deliberation: "Well enough to marry me?" Bowers looked at her, speechless. He managed finally: "Are you joshin'?" "No."
"And if there'd been fifty million Injuns ready to fricassee us the next minute I couldn't 'a' helped havin' another attack of that bronco-kitus that troubled me so. "But your Uncle Zeke wasn't so cussed hilarious for the next four days. I expected that Injun back with his friends every minute, and what with watchin' all night and joshin' Percy all day I was plumb wore out.
Stewart had evidently become a broad target for their badinage. "Wal, the boys are sure after Gene," said Stillwell, with his huge smile. "Joshin' him all the time about how he sits around an' hangs around an' loafs around jest to get a glimpse of you, Miss Majesty. Sure all the boys hev a pretty bad case over their pretty boss, but none of them is a marker to Gene.
"Now, see here, missy; you're joshin' your Uncle Bud. Do you know that you're tryin' to bribe a Gov'ment officer? That means a pow'ful big penalty if I was to repo't to Washington." Dorothy wrinkled her nose. "I don't care if you do! You'd get what-for, too." "Well, I'll tell you, missy. Let's ask Bondsman about this here hocus. Are you willin' to stand by what he says?" "Oh, that's not fair!
"You ain't joshin' me?" he asked. Billy Byrne caught the tremor in the voice. "I ain't kiddin' you son," he said. "Wotinell do you take me fer one o' these greasy Dagos? You an' I're Americans I wouldn't string a home guy down here in this here Godforsaken neck o' the woods."
I'm joshin' with you, see!" and The Spider grinned hideously. "Smile! Don't make a break for the patio. The boys out there wouldn't understand, and Boca might get hurt. She's goin' to sing. You turn slow, and listen. When your back's turned, those hombres out there will step in." The Spider laughed, as though at something Pete had said. "You're mighty surprised to see 'em and you start to talk.
"Aw, say, quit your joshin' me," said Bruce, "that's a real word. It means ah er well " "Sure it does, we knew it all the time, didn't we, Romper?" said Nipper Knapp. "That's exactly what it means," said Bud quite soberly. "Well, it means that we've been putting off work. We haven't come down to brass tacks. And now we're up against it and our motorboat proposition falls through," snapped Bruce.
He's got it so bad, Miss Majesty, thet he actooly don't know they are joshin' him. It's the amazin'est strange thing I ever seen. Why, Gene was always a feller thet you could josh. An' he'd laugh an' get back at you. But he was never before deaf to talk, an' there was a certain limit no feller cared to cross with him. Now he takes every word an' smiles dreamy like, an' jest looks an' looks.
And "Good-night, Pete," came from the house. "Good-night, Ma!" shrilled Pete, blushing. "I'm plumb sore!" asserted Haskins. "'Good-night, boys, is good enough for us. But did you hear what come after! I kin see who gits all the extra pie around this here ranch! I've half a mind to quit." "What eatin' pie?" "Nope! Joshin' Ma. She allus gits the best of us."
"Bill," he answered, nodding his head. "Sure, Pete, Bill an' no other." "No joshin'?" she queried. "It ain't Bill at all," the other broke in. "How do you know?" he demanded. "You never laid eyes on me before." "No need to, to know you're lyin'," was the retort. "Straight, Bill, what is it?" the first girl asked. "Bill'll do," he confessed. She reached out to his arm and shook him playfully.
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