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And, unable to make out anything but a blurred collection of moving things, he called Marylyn from her dinner-getting. "Come an' see w'at y' c'n make out off thar on th' prairie, Mar'lyn," he cried. "Ef it's antelope, bring out th' Sharps." Marylyn hurried to him and followed the direction of his gaze. "Why, it's men, pa," she said. "Certainly, it's men," he agreed pettishly.
"Trouble is," he said at last, "Ah don' know no day t' figger fr'm Ah los' track 'way back yonder at th' fore part o' th' month. 'Sides, Ah kain't say whether this is Tuesday er Wednesday er Thursday. Mar'lyn, d' you remember w'at day o' th' week it is?" Marylyn left the farther window and walked slowly forward.
"You take Mar'lyn," he insisted, "an' th' pistol. Ah c'n git along fine by myself. Charley'll be comin', an' Ah'll hang on t' him. Ah reckon, between us, we'll be O. K. 'Sides, y' know, Ah got a weasel's tail." The mention of Charley won Dallas to her father's view. He would not be alone all day, for the outcast would surely appear.
"M' gal, y' kain't think how Ah feel about them Yanks," he went on tremulously. "An' Ah want y' t' promise me thet whether Ah'm 'live er dead, y' 'll allus keep on you' own side of th' river." She glanced up at him quickly. "Do you mean that, daddy?" she asked, using the name he had borne in her babyhood. "Ah do! Ah do!" "Then I promise." Her tone was sorrowful. "Mar'lyn?"
But a quick, peremptory gesture from her father interrupted. "Mar'lyn," he cried, his eyes warning the elder girl, "look out fer thet coffee; it's a-bilin' over." And Dallas saw that her father did not trust the storekeeper perhaps feared him and that he did not wish his own neglect to be known. But a hint of the state of affairs at the shack had already entered Lounsbury's mind.
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