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The bed of that river is full of cold springs, and it's pretty deep along this stretch. Weak as you are, and as hot as you are, you'd get cramps in less'n a minute." "I happen to be a good swimmer." "So was Bart Edgecomb, best swimmer I ever saw. He could swim back an' forth across this river half a dozen times, and do you know what happened to him last September?
To all their arguments he had but one reply, and that was to the effect that he did not believe in their scheme of boarding. "It's jest nothin' more nor less'n tryin' to put on airs," he said, impatiently. "Anybody'd think you 'xpected to be 'lected aldermen by ther way you're swellin' round; an' old Mother Green'll be tickled most to death when she sees what fools you're makin' of yourselves."
It took me less'n three minutes to pump out of Vincent the time and place of this fatal little dinner party he was about to pull off, and shortly after that I had Mr. Dempsey on the wire. Yes, he says he remembers me well enough, on account of my hair. Most of 'em do. "It's a shame you've forgot someone else so quick, though," I adds. "Who's that?" says he. "Mirabelle," says I.
"The time's past for you to cut and run for a place like the Klondike, and singing won't buy you nothing." "Just the same," he answered quietly. "I bet I could go to that Klondike place and pick up enough gold to buy back the Tarwater lands." "Old fool!" Annie contributed. "You couldn't buy them back for less'n three hundred thousand and then some," was William's effort at squelching him.
"I 's be'n lookin' fer 'im eber sence," she added simply, as though twenty-five years were but a couple of weeks, "an' I knows he 's be'n lookin' fer me. Fer he sot a heap er sto' by me, Sam did, an' I know he 's be'n huntin' fer me all dese years, 'less'n he 's be'n sick er sump'n, so he could n' work, er out'n his head, so he could n' 'member his promise.
The man had gone into a rage and had sworn comprehensively. Stung by his language, his tormentors had immediately bristled at him with a great show of resenting unjust oaths. Possibly there was going to be a fight. The friend arose and went over to them, making pacific motions with his arms. "Oh, here, now, boys, what's th' use?" he said. "We'll be at th' rebs in less'n an hour.
I was down there one Sunday, and asked him how he managed to break the brutes. 'It's easy, said he, 'when you know how. I never hook up less'n six of 'em at a time. Then they sort o' neutralize one another.
Now Jonas has gone there's nobody to take care of the chickens, an' a hotel 'thout chickens an' fresh eggs is no home for a hungry man." "What will you take for the place just as it stands?" "Well, I've figured up an' I should lose money ef I took less'n four thousand dollars, an' I ought to have five." "I'll take the refusal of it for forty-eight hours at five thousand. Is it agreed?"
Give me a third of six hundred thousand, and I'll walk into Richmond in less'n thirty days." A quiet smile played over the face of one of the listeners. With a slight shade of irony in his voice he said, "If such are your convictions, Mr. Holman, I think it a great pity that you are not in the service. We need those who have clear views of what is required in the present emergency.
I know Vincent has told you how happy you have made us both, but I simply could not resist adding my own poor words of gratitude." She sure was a weak describer. Poor words! If she hadn't said a whole mouthful then my ears are no good. Less'n a minute and a half by the clock she'd been in there, but she certainly had decanted the beans.
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