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He grabbed me an' started pullin' me ter the woods, an' then, Sonny, somethin' happened " Tom looked at the long rifle in its buck's horn rest and smiled: "Old 'Speakeasy' up thar stretched her long neck through a chink in the logs an' said somethin' ter Mr. Redskin. She didn't raise her voice much louder'n a whisper. She jist kinder sighed: "Kerpeow!"
If they hear us afore we're ready to shoot, the lass'll be tomahawked quicker'n lightnin'. If they don't suspicion us, when the right moment comes you shoot Brandt, yell louder'n you ever did afore, leap amongst 'em, an' cut down the first Injun thet's near you on your way to Helen. Swing her over your arm, an' dig into the woods." "Well?" asked Jonathan when Wetzel finished.
He lowered the gun and held it before him with pride: "Nancy, she's the dandiest piece o' iron that wuz ever twisted inter the shape of a weepon. Old 'Speakeasy's her name! She's got the softest voice that ever whispered death to a varmint or an Injun hit ain't much louder'n the crack of a whip, but, man alive, when she talks she says somethin'. 'Kerpeow! she whispers soft an' low!
Sam continued. "Oh, oh! Look out!" This incited a genuine spark from Penrod. "Fourth o' July! I guess she'll be a little better than any firecrackers! Just a little 'Bing! Bing! Bing! she'll be goin'. 'Bing! Bing! Bing!" The suggestion of noise stirred his comrade. "I'll bet she'll go off louder'n that time the gas-works blew up! I wouldn't be afraid to shoot her off ANY time."
"She likes ye, or she'd never a sent ye that warnin. Akshins speaks louder'n words. She's kinder flustered an dunno her own mind, that's all. Gals don't, genally. Ye'd be a darnation fool ter let her slip through yer fingers naow, arter riskin yer neck an all aour necks in this ere job jess ter git a holt of her, an a settin sech store by her ez ye allers hev. Take a fool's advice, Cap'n.
"Turn tail? He jest throwed up his head for one good look and came a comin'. "'Oof! oof! I hollered, louder'n ever. But he jest came a comin'. "'Consarn you! I says to myself, gettin' mad. 'I'll make you jump the trail. "So I grabs my hat, and wavin' and hollerin' starts down the trail to meet him. A big sugar pine had gone down in a windfall and lay about breast high.
"Then Ketury called out once more, louder'n ever, 'Come down, come down! let's see who ye be. And, sure enough, down comes a man's head, and settled on the shoulders straight enough; and Cap'n Eb, the minit he sot eyes on him, knew he was Jehiel Lommedieu.
"'You're my prisoner, he says again, louder'n before. "'All right, says I, 'I'm willing, seeing there wasn't anything else to say, and putting a free and easy face on it. "'Get up, then, and come along with me, says he. I pointed to my leg, and tried to grin.
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