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"Well, now, doos it reely matter to you, sonny?" "Pardner, it don' matter to me a d n, if you say so! I was jus' askin' myself what a man would look for if he los' it here. Since I strike this 'ell of a place the very groun' been chewed up and spit out reg'lar, one hundred times a year. 'T'is a gris' mill!" "I didn't gretly expect to find what I was lookin' for.
"Pleasure!" growled Maverick, with an oath, "there's too many of 'em, damn 'em, out here for pleasure; I'd give some of 'em some pleasure that they ain't a lookin' for, if I had a chance." His wife made no response. "What's that girl Lyle tricked out in such finery for?" he next asked. "They're clothes that Miss Gladden give her," Mrs.
It was a fine moonlight night, and I eat the apples, lookin' out o' the shay winda. "It's a shame for gentlemen to frighten a poor foolish child like I was. I sometimes think it might be tricks. There was two on 'em on the tap o' the coach beside me. And they began to question me after nightfall, when the moon rose, where I was going to.
The hand of Daniels dropped away from his revolver, for he recognized the voice of Hal Purvis, who swiftly ranged alongside. "What's the dope?" asked Buck, producing his tobacco and the inevitable brown papers. "Jest lookin' the landscape over an' scoutin' around for news," answered Purvis. "Pick up anything?" "Yeh. Ran across some tenderfoot squatters jest out of Elkhead."
Waring rode out, looking for tracks. His men watched him until he had disappeared behind a rise. Bender, the new foreman, turned to his fellows. "I'd hate to be the man that the boss is lookin' for," he said, shaking his head. "Why, he's lookin' for Pat, ain't he?" queried one of the men. "That ain't what I mean," said the foreman. The wind died down suddenly.
Besides that, as our cap'n have said, the place is used, off and on, by the Spaniards, and we don't want 'em to come lookin' for us until we be ready to meet 'em.
The woman did not reply at once. She seemed intent upon gathering her showy skirts out of the dust. When she spoke, her voice trembled on the verge of a laugh. "That so? I've been lookin' for him, too. Thought I'd give him a pleasant surprise." "He's got his house about finished." The woman stopped in the path.
" Or," the constable continued, lifting a hand, "is it to say to you, 'It is sot in the north-west, as the case may be? Or is it I was wastin' the day in idleness, same as some persons I could mention in the Force if there wasn' such a thing as discipline? Not so. I was lookin' up in the execution of my duty. An' what do you suppose I was lookin' for?"
The flat used to be bigger, but the creek's eaten into it. Poppe said they was a couple of killin's an' one lynchin'." Lying low against their horses' necks, they scrambled up a steep cattle trail out of the canyon, and began to work across rough country toward the knolls. "Say, Saxon, you're always lookin' for something pretty.
"And that Pike County girl from Dow's Flat, with her bundles. Don't forget her," added the outside passenger, ironically. "Does anybody here know her?" continued Bill, ignoring the irony. "You'd better ask Judge Thompson; he was mighty attentive to her; gettin' her a seat by the off window, and lookin' after her bundles and things." "Gettin' her a seat by the window?" repeated Bill.
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