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So ontil the kempany fill the top o' that coach with men who ain't got any business to do BUT fightin' other men who ain't got any other business to do BUT to fight them the odds are agin us! Harry has always acted square to me that's how I know he ain't in this sneak-thief business, and why he didn't foller us, suspectin' suthin', and I've always acted square to him.
"It's no user talkin'! I tell ye, ye hain't got no more sense than a coyote! I'm sick and tired of it, doggoned if I ain't! Ye ain't no more use nor a hossfly, and jest ez hinderin'! It was along o' you that we lost the stock at Laramie, and ef ye'd bin at all decent and takin', we'd hev had kempany that helped, instead of laggin' on yere alone!"
You've done your level best to save your treasure, and I'm your witness to the kempany, and proud of it, too! So shet your head and and," pouring out a glass of whiskey, "swaller that!" But Brice waved him aside with burning eyes and dry lips. "You don't know it all, Bill!" he said, with a half choked voice. "All what?"
"Jim dear," said she, when their Spartan repast was concluded and they were reestablished before the living-room fire. "What was it the Redwood Mill Kempany offered you for that piece near Dead Man's Slough?" Jim took his pipe from his lips long enough to say, "Ten thousand dollars," and put it back again.
"You're in early, Seth," she said. "Yes. I stopped at the Cross Roads Post Office. Lucky I did, or you'd hev had kempany on your hands afore you knowed it this very night! I found this letter from Dr. Duchesne," and he produced a letter from his pocket. Mrs. Rivers looked up with an expression of worldly interest. Dr.
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