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From there, he pointed to a shaft of light that was falling upon the north side of the second shanty in the street. It was from an uncurtained, south opening in the first. "You see that?" asked Lounsbury. "Well, I'm going over there to look in. How do we know he hasn't given us the slip, someway?" "Let's be careful," said the lieutenant. "A proper amount of caution isn't cowardice.
Along with this came self-arraignment: After all, he should have told Lancaster that a man who claimed the quarter-section on the peninsula had been called from Dodge City. Lounsbury had been certain that Matthews could not reach Fort Brannon before the spring. But it had never occurred to him that the section-boss would leave his girls alone!
If Dallas, as she crossed the sill, formed, with the swift keenness of the plainswoman, a new and truer estimate of Lounsbury, he, saluting cordially, failed not to measure her.
"What under the shining sun!" exclaimed Lounsbury, spilling ground coffee into his boot-tops. He strode to the front of the store, the tin scoop in his hand still held recklessly upside down. A pung was passing the grocery a green pung drawn by a milk-white horse. On its quilt-padded seat were two men. Above them, as they slowly proceeded, sagged a high board cross.
The wife of Professor Lounsbury, at the Institute, helped me pick them out, and oh, what should I have done without her! Galusha, of course, would have rigged me up like the Queen of Sheba, if he had had his way. I tried going shopping with him at first, but I had to give it up.
"I just wanted to be sure that you know Lancaster's got that tenth point I spoke about cinched." "Yes?" "And that what I said before you went away still goes. You hear?" "I ain't deef," said Matthews, non-committal. "That's all." And Lounsbury went back to his billiards. The interpreter continued on to the stockade, where he was more fortunate in the delivery of the true message he had brought.
"Why, Dallas, you don't meant to say that you that she still " "Yes," very low. "Well," Lounsbury was determined now, "there's got to be some kind of an understanding. I told you how I felt, and you ran away from me. You shan't do it this time. I'll go to the house, and I'll tell Marylyn just how things are. I will." "Oh, my baby sister!" she murmured. Instantly, he was all gentleness.
But the storekeeper was deaf. Each yard made him more certain of the identity of one traveller; his thoughts, as he pursued, were of him. He gained rapidly on the pung. At the edge of the camp, in the trough of a drift, he stopped it. Lancaster spoke first, for Lounsbury was too spent. "Wal? wal?" he said crabbedly.
It doesn't want men who'd file just to get a price. So the story hasn't leaked much." Lancaster was fumbling at his crutches. "Ah see, Ah see," he said sulkily. Then, with an attempt at being courteous, "Come up t' th' shack, Lounsb'ry. Y' brung good news; y' got t' hev you' dinner." "I ate back there," said Lounsbury, dismounting; "but I'll stop off for a while, just the same."
"Who's you' party?" the elder man demanded, indicating the distant camp with one crutch, and leaning heavily upon the other. "Surveyors," replied Lounsbury. "Surveyors!" There was alarm in Lancaster's tone. He suddenly recalled how, slighting Dallas' advice, he had delayed a trip to the land-office for the purpose of filing on the claim. "W'at they doin'?" "Something right in your line, sir.
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