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Even then, when two centers of opposition to the madness of the mob had been created, the menace could not at once be halted. The man with the rope had approached so near the lumber-pile that the sheriff could all but reach him. A furious battle ensued, and waged around the planks, between the deputies and lynchers.
No less excited when at last they knew that Van was innocent, the great crowd still occupied the street, hailing Trimmer to the lumber-pile and demanding to know how he came by the facts, and where Cayuse had gone. Trimmer was frightened into soberness at least into soberness sufficient to protect himself and McCoppet.
Why, he jumped in, clothes and all, bold as a lion, plainly to save me from drowning, and me all the time a-spyin' at him from behind a lumber-pile! He was sarching for me, I knowed, for he swum up and down jest about there for the space maybe of a quarter of an hour.
"I'd like to plug him," Buck murmured regretfully. "What would be the use? This will be his last night in Humboldt County " A rifle shot rang out from the side of B Street; from the lumber-pile across the street, Bryce and Ogilvy heard a suppressed grunt of pain, and a crash as of a breaking board.
"I chanced to be passing and heard his cry," he said, diffidently. "Playing the good Samaritan?" asked a voice from the window. The Sister and the Chevalier looked around and saw the vicomte leaning on the window-sill. "Why was it not my happiness to tarry by that lumber-pile. I saw the lad." "Ah, it is you, Vicomte?" said the Chevalier, pleasantly. "Yes, Chevalier. Will you walk with me?"
Your mother's condition is constantly improving, though of course it is not so apparent to you as to me. What has been done with the carriage and horses?" "Oh, the carriage is a sweet pudding; and the grays curses on 'em! are badly bruised. One of them had his flank laid open by a saw lying on a lumber-pile; and I only wish it had sawed across the jugular.
I'll wait, and when he comes back if he says he's got to go any more I'll get down there, too, if I swim; and we'll take and tie him, and keep him, and shove out down the river; and when Tom's done with him we'll give him what it's worth, or all we got, and then let him get ashore. So then I crept into a lumber-pile to get some sleep; and next time I waked up the sun was away up over my head!
Johnny Rabbit who married a very beautiful lady rabbit whose name was Miss Molly Cottontail. After they were married and had gone to keep house under a lumber-pile, Mr. Hezekiah Coon came along and offered to rent them some beautifully furnished apartments in the burned-out stump of a hemlock tree. The rent was to be one nice ear of sweet corn every month "
Chill dawn spread over the town, dulling the light of the fires and bringing into relief the sodden tramplings in the snow around the jail, with the sharply defined paths leading to Tom Aldershot's lumber-pile. The watchers had long before sneaked off to their beds, for not a sign of Ford had they seen since midnight.
Just as I come by that lumber-pile down yonder, a man hopped out an throwed a 'gat' under my nose. He was quicker than light, and near blowed my skelp into the next block before he saw who I was; then he dropped his weepon and said: "'My mistake. Go on. I accepted his apology." "Could you see who he was?" "Sure. Guess." "I can't." "It was the Bronco Kid." "Lord!" ejaculated Glenister.
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