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Who keepsh other mensh' first wivesh at kishen winder to frighten 'em to tell? You!" But a change had already come over the face of Abner Langworthy. The anger, anxiety, astonishment, and vacuity that was there had vanished, and he looked up with his usual resigned acceptance of the inevitable as he said, "I reckon that's so!
"I ain't well enough acquainted with Dr. Langworthy, or else I'm TOO well. No; if I was to ask any one, I should want to ask a total stranger. But what's the use, Si? Nobody could make us see it any different from what it is, and I don't know as I should want they should." It blotted out the tender beauty of the day, and weighed down their hearts ever more heavily within them.
Langworthy shook off for a little her listlessness and recounted how she had watched "that girl" riding like a wild Indian toward the Upper End. Perhaps her gun had gone off accidentally. "Or," she concluded with a touch of venom, "it wouldn't be above her to run off with that long horse foreman." "Eh?" said the major. "Don't believe it. A fine fig ahem. Where should she run to?
Byers, with a complacent show of dimples, which she, however, chastened into that resignation which seemed characteristic of the pair. "Let's see your 'intended' as might be." Thus supported, Mr. Langworthy led Mrs. Byers into the hall through a crowd of loungers, into a smaller hall, and there opened the door of the kitchen.
Hall proposed the parallel of forty-two and one-half degrees of North latitude. Mr. Peck suggested the parallel of forty-four. Mr. Langworthy, of Dubuque, asked that forty-five degrees be made the Northern limit. Mr.
The sheepman swore Quinnion had been with him two weeks, was with him that night." "A sheepman can lie," grunted Lee. Judith's brief moment of confusion passed, she ushered Marcia into the cabin. True to her promise, Miss Langworthy, though she flashed a quick look toward Lee, did not speak to him. He found himself flushing quite as hotly as Judith had done.
And still, again and again turning away from Marcia, he sought Judith. The dance over, their talk was interrupted by an excited and rather overdignified youth with a hurt look in his young worshipping eyes, who stiffly reminded Miss Langworthy that she had cut his dance.
"But she got the divorce from me, so I reckon I had the temper," said Langworthy, with great simplicity. "Wha-at?" said Mr. Byers, putting down his glass and gazing with drunken gravity at the sad-eyed yet good-humoredly tolerant man before him. "You? you had the temper?" "I reckon that's what the court allowed," said Abner simply. Mr. Byers stared.
Major Langworthy imbibed an unusually large number of cocktails and long before noon of the following day had suggested that the ranch be put immediately under military law, hinting that a military-mustached gentleman be appointed commanding general of the Blue Lake forces, and forming within his own mind the picture of himself in the office, revolver on table, cocktail at elbow, directing the manoeuvres from this point of vantage, not to say safety.
She gripped his lean, brown hand hard in hers. "Bud, you're a brick!" she cried. Mrs. Langworthy had just come out with Hampton, Trevors, and the major. Judith turned from Lee to Trevors but managed to keep half an eye on Mrs. Langworthy. "You see, it's pay-day with us, Mr. Trevors," she said quietly. "And when pay-day comes we pay our men at six o'clock in spite of hell and high water!"
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