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"Wa'al, yes, squire," said Ezekiel lazily, in spite of his uneasy seat. "I kalkilated ef there was suthin' goin' on, I'd like to see it." "You cursed prying fool! you've spoiled all. There!" he shouted despairingly, as the quick clatter of hoofs rang from the arroyo behind them, "there they go! That's your work, blockhead!
He allus kem in as you went out sabe! and got away before you kem back, his wife all the time just a-hoverin' between the two places, and keeping watch for him. It was killin' to her, you see, for she wasn't brought up to it, whiles Jim didn't keer had two revolvers and kalkilated to kill a dozen Vigilants afore he dropped.
"Then ye kalkilated ter get er hundred dollars reward ef the old man and old woman hadn't bin scelped afore yet got up to 'em?" said Jim. "That's your blamed dodgasted luck, eh! Enyhow, you'll make Mrs. Peyton plank down suthin' if she adopts the babby.
"And I said," broke in Hopkins, "that I guessed folks didn't bother a man with women folks around, and that I kalkilated that I wasn't quite as notorious for fightin' as he was." "And he said," also interrupted Mrs. Hopkins, "and quite in his nat'ral way, too, gloomy like, you remember, Cyrus," appealingly to her husband, "that that was his curse."
For when I heard what you'd said, I got on that mustang and started for the school-house to clean you out and giv' you five minutes to leave Injin Spring. I don't know ez you remember that day. I'd kalkilated my time so ez to ketch ye comin' out o' school, but I was too airly. I hung around out o' sight, and then hitched my hoss to a buckeye and peeped inter the winder to hev a good look at ye.
"I kalkilated you had reasons for going off, leaving no address behind you," he drawled. "What reasons?" asked Blandford, with a sudden relapse of his former harshness. "Wa'al, Squire Blandford, sens you wanter know I reckon your business wasn't payin', and there was a matter of two hundred and fifty dollars ye took with ye, that your creditors would hev liked to hev back."
"You've given Jack money, as I know." "Only what I made myself. Listen to me, Mr. Hamlin. When Jack proposed to me, I offered him about what I kalkilated I could earn myself. When he went away, and was sick and in trouble, I came here and took this hotel. I knew that by hard work I could make it pay. Don't laugh at me, please.
I didn't give him permission to hunt deserters, but THIEVES. I didn't help him to ketch the man that deserted from HIM, but the skunk that took MY clothes. For when the Leftenant found the man's old uniform in the bush, he nat'rally kalkilated he must hev got some other duds near by in some underhand way. Don't you see? eh? Why, look, Mag. Darned if you ain't skeered after all!
Silsbee's train," said Clarence, pointing to the darkened west. "Lost? how long?" "About three hours. I thought they'd come back for us," said Clarence apologetically to this big, kindly man. "And you kalkilated to wait here for 'em?" "Yes, yes I did till I saw you." "Then why in thunder didn't you light out straight for us, instead of hanging round here and drawing us out?"
And ez far ez that goes, no more did me, nor Seth Davis, nor Cressy." "Me!" said the master in utter bewilderment. "You!" repeated McKinstry quietly, reinstalling the hand Ford had attempted to withdraw. "I ain't sayin' ye either know'd it or kalkilated on it. But it war so. Ef ye'd hark to me, and meander on a little, I'll tell ye HOW it war.
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