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"Oui, yis, mes boys, and there's rain, and tunder, and lightin'," added Henri, pointing to a dark cloud which was seen rising on the horizon ahead of them. "It'll be rain," remarked Joe, "but there's no thunder in the air jist now; we'll make for yonder clump o' bushes and lay by till it's past."
"It ain't healthy, lightin' fires to-night," said Long Jim grimly. The boats swung forward now at a slightly increased pace. On the Independence, Adam Colfax, Adolphe Drouillard, Thrale, Lyon and the others half stood, half knelt, looking steadily ahead, their minds attuned as only the minds of men can be concentrated at such a crisis.
"'Isn't he a darling? she says, her face lightin' up. "'That isn't the way I'd put it, I says, 'but I guess we mean the same. Now, I'm a race-hoss trainer. You read these letters from people I'm workin' fur, 'n' then I'll tell you what I want to do. I fishes out a bunch of letters from my pocket 'n' she sets down on the steps 'n' begins to read 'em solemn as owls.
Openin' the private office door easy I finds Old Hickory has settled back in his swing chair and is lightin' a fresh Fumadora satisfied. So I slips in, salutes respectful and jerks my thumb toward the directors' room. "I've put a sub. on the job, sir," says I. "Eh?" says he. "Oh, yes. Who did you find?" "A suspicious young stranger," says I. "I sicced him and Mr. Dowd on each other.
"Well," said Purvis, "if that's done, ain't the game worth while?" The rest of the men chuckled and even Kilduff smiled. "Old Joe Cumberland is sure takin' it hard," said "Calamity" Rhinehart. "All day he's been lightin' into the girl." "The funny part," mused Purvis, "is that the old boy really means it. I think he'd of sawed off his right hand to keep her from goin' to Whistlin' Dan."
Belloo, who'd been lightin' 'is pipe all this time, up and sez, 'Fifty up! 'e sez in his quiet way, making it a hundred an' fifty-six pound, Miss Anthea, which were too much for Grimes, Lord! I thought as that there man were going to burst, Miss Anthea!" and Adam gave vent to his great laugh at the mere recollection.
"What was the idea in building the dam in the first place?" "Why, for power purposes. I believe it was their intention to induce manufacturing enterprises to locate in Terrace City, and to furnish them electric power at a low rate " "An' underbid me on the lightin' contract an' then unload onto the city at a big profit." Wentworth smiled. "I was not advised as to the financial end of it.
He was quite a ways ahead, and I let him keep so. Soon as I was sure about him I knew I oughn't to frighten him by waking him too sudden." "Why, was he asleep?" This from Rufie. "Sure! But what he did was the queerest. He began dodging in and out around the sheds, and every now and then he'd stoop and seem to be fixing something. Then he'd motion like he was lightin' a match.
"Then you didn't hit him with your gun?" "No. I wish I had. I've got a fist like a boiled ham. I can feel it swell, right now." "That there mescal is sure pow'ful stuff." "Thanks!" said Bartley succinctly. "Got a kick like white lightin'," said Cheyenne. "And I paid our hotel bill," continued Bartley. "Well, that was mighty thoughtful. I plumb forgot it."
In one brief minute the place was apparently empty save for Ambrose. Still tied to his chair, he inquired: "Is any one hyar?" For a second there was silence, then the dulcet tones of Miss Aphrodite fell on the big negro's ear: "Ah's hyar, Ambrose," she said. "Well, den" recognizing her voice "would you mine lightin' de gas till Ah can tie mahself loose from dis hyar throne ob glory?"
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