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He shifted his pipe in his mouth. Finally he said: "Some folks 'lowed ez ye hed no right ter take up that mare, bein' ez ye war the ranger." Tobe Gryce whirled round abruptly. "What war I a-goin' ter do, then? Feed the critter fur nuthin till the triflin' scamp ez owned her kem arter her? I couldn't work her 'thout takin' her up an' hevin her appraised. Thar's a law agin sech.
I ain't just kam enough yet," he apologized in the calmest manner, "and I clean forgit myself," he added with perfect self-possession. "But I was kalkilatin' to ask you" he laid his bandaged hand familiarly on the master's shoulder "if Cressy kem all right?" "Perfectly," said the master. "But shan't I walk on home with you, and we can talk together after your wound is attended to?"
Ezekiel glanced under his white lashes at Demorest's thoughtful face. His fondest fears appeared to be confirmed; Demorest had evidently become a Papist. But that gentleman stopped any theological discussion by the abrupt inquiry: "Did Mrs. Demorest say when she thought of returning?" "She allowed she mout kem to-morrow but " added Ezekiel dubiously. "But what?"
Thet's wot I bin sayin' o' my wife Sadie, her that I actooally got to think kem back to me last night. You see I'd heerd from one o' those fellars that a woman like unto her had been picked up in Texas and brought on yere, and that mebbe she was somewhar in Californy. I was that foolish and that ontrue to her, all the while knowin', as I once told you, Mr.
He made a funny little sound something like a pony's whinny, then answered, "Wall, I should surmise that I want between fifty and sixty hands, ef yew kin lay me onto 'em; but, kem along, every dreep's a drop, an' yew seem likely enough." With that he turned and led the way until we reached a building around which were gathered one of the most nondescript crowds I had ever seen.
'Sure, do you think he could kill him, says the lord, 'when all the stoutest knights in the land wasn't aiquil to it, but never kem back, and was ate up alive by the cruel desaiver. 'Sure, don't you see there, says the king, pointin' at the shield, 'that he killed three score and tin at one blow? and the man that done that, I think, is a match for anything.
She came in, her cheeks flushed, her eyes bright, with an excited dubitation. Her husband commented on the change. "Ye air a powerful cur'ous critter, 'Genie," he said: "a while ago ye looked some fower or five hundred year old now ye favors yerself when I fust kem a-courtin' round the settlemint." She hardly knew whether the dull stir in her heart were pleasure or pain.
"The crowd at the dure, sor, is dishpersed," the janitor reported. "A couple av cops kem along an' fanned 'em. They're askin' fer the two av yees," with a careless nod to the policeman and detective. "Yeh heard what I said," Hickey answered the officer's look.
"I kem back hyar ter tell ye," the doughty deliverer began, with an air of great importance, and magnifying his office with an extreme relish, "that I can't go an' tell Pete 'bout'n the rope till I hev done kem back from the mill. I hev got old Sorrel hitched out hyar a piece, with a bag o' corn on his back, what I hev ter git ground at the mill.
So they tuk the lead, the rest a following an' kem down thar through all that black growth" he lifted his arm and pointed at the great slope, dense with fir and pine and the heavy underbrush "keepin' the bridle-path easy enough even at night, fur the bresh is so thick they couldn't lose thar way.
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