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They meant that some of the Happy Family had driven cattle this way; which meant that they would have seen little Claude Bennett that was the Kid's real name, which no one except perfect strangers ever used they would have seen the Kid or his tracks, if he had ridden down here. Miss Allen, then, must look farther than this.
"That's tough," said I, for I saw Jim felt bad. "The Kid and you were like two brothers." "John, I loved the " Then Jim broke down. He got his hat and coat, and said: "John, let's get out into the air I feel all choked up here; and I'll tell you a strange, true story the Kid's story."
Ralph replied and Bludson added: "Blest if the kid's ever seen the ocean before. He don't know a brace from a marlin spike." "I can learn, I reckon," said Ralph so heartily that Mr. Duff took a second look at the boy, then smiled to himself. "Run down to the cabin and fetch me up the doctor," said the mate. "Yon's the way." He pointed towards the companionway.
She continued to contemplate him. Her eyes were strange, baffling, smouldering, yellow-brown, shifting, yet not shifty: eyes with a history. Her laugh proclaimed both effrontery and uneasiness. "Don't get huffy," she said. "The kid's sick that's on the level, is it? You didn't come 'round to see me?" The insinuation was in her voice as well as in her words.
"I blew out the torch and went over, half mad. As I hooked the door to keep out the sharp wind I thought I heard a sob, and I took the Kid's head in my hands and turned his face to the moonlight. There were big tears in the corner of each tightly closed eye.
Then they brought him kid's flesh and wine, and the nymphs brought him honey from the rocks; and he ate, and drank, and slept again, while the nymphs and shepherds danced and sang. And when he woke, they begged him to stay; but he would not. "I have a great work to do," he said; "I must be away toward the Isthmus, that I may go to Athens." But the shepherds said, "Will you go alone toward Athens?
Bennett, you don't quite understand what you are talking about," he added. "You have not had the opportunity to understand, of course. But I agree with you that the Kid's place is at home, and I shall certainly have a talk with him." He moved to the door, laid a fine, well-kept hand upon the knob, and looked at her with a faint smile that had behind it a good deal that puzzled the Little Doctor.
Tim winked, looked cunning, nodded in a knowing way. "Kid's been cuttin' up throwin' away too much money; gettin' into scrapes like a boy in town will, you know. Wild oats and a big crop of 'em. The old man's staked him out with me for three years, and he ain't to draw one cent of pay, or have one cent to spend, in that time. If he breaks over, it's all off between them two.
I don't want a loan. I'm a dealer and I want work." Morris Best bustled out of the adjoining room at the moment, and, noting a feminine figure in this forbidden territory, he exclaimed: "Hey, miss! Theater's in the rear." Miller summoned him with a backward jerk of his head. "Morris, this kid's looking for a job as dealer," said he. "Dealer?" Best halted abruptly. "That's funny."
It isn't just my livery barn, Barney, but yours, too, so just you go to it and if ever you want anything or make a mistake just you come and tell me and it'll be all right. "Now, Grandma, that's all I said to that young one and I'll be goshed if I don't think that kid's turning out to be the best bet I've made. But, of course, I always think that about every one of them.
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