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Then Bettles, revolver in hand and coolly waiting a chance, settled the combat. ''Twas a square game, Kid, Lon remarked, rising to his feet and shaking the snow from out his sleeves; 'with a fair percentage to meself that bucked it. That night, while Lon McFane sought the forgiving arms of the Church in the direction of Father Roubeau's cabin, Malemute Kid talked long to little purpose.
"By gar!" broke in Louis Savoy, "dat is no, vot you call, josh! I know one mans, so vaire beeg like ze buffalo. Wit him, on ze Sulphur Creek stampede, go one small mans, Lon McFane. You know dat Lon McFane, dat leetle Irisher wit ze red hair and ze grin. An' dey walk an' walk an' walk, all ze day long an' ze night long. And beeg mans, him become vaire tired, an' lay down mooch in ze snow.
"And now, because I know you don't know, I'll tell you what a patteran is," she was saying.... "Dick, boy, your position is distinctly Carlylean," Terrence McFane said in fatherly tones. The sages of the madrono grove were at table, and, with Paula, Dick and Graham, made up the dinner party of seven. "Mere naming of one's position does not settle it, Terrence," Dick replied.
It is nine years now that she has been faithful to Dave Walsh, and the outlook is that she'll be faithful to him to the end." Lon McFane pulled down the top of the blankets and prepared to crawl in. "We have her grub hauled to her each year," he added, "and in general keep an eye on her. Last night was the first time she ever recognized me, though." "Who are the we?" I asked.
It was the hour before dinner, and Graham, Leo and Terrence McFane had chanced together in the stag-room. "No, Leo," the Irishman warned the young poet. "Let the one suffice you. Your cheeks are warm with it. A second one and you'll conflagrate. 'Tis no right you have to be mixing beauty and strong drink in that lad's head of yours. Leave the drink to your elders.
She drew Lon McFane, who had charge of Harrington's team, to one side, and hardly had the first words left her lips when it was noticed that his lower jaw dropped with a celerity and emphasis suggestive of great things. He unhitched Wolf Fang from her sled, put him at the head of Harrington's team, and mushed the string of animals into the Yukon trail.
'What danged right'd he to fetch my wife in? thundered Bettles to the soothing overtures of a friend. ''Twa'n't called for, he concluded decisively. ''Twa'n't called for, he reiterated again and again, pacing up and down and waiting for Lon McFane. And Lon McFane his face was hot and tongue rapid as he flaunted insurrection in the face of the Church.
Mason who first asked that Paula play; but it was Terrence McFane and Aaron Hancock who evicted the rag-time group from the piano and sent Theodore Malken, a blushing ambassador, to escort Paula. "'Tis for the confounding of this pagan that I'm askin' you to play 'Reflections on the Water," Graham heard Terrence say to her.
But it allus come out the nighest side-channel, an' not bubblin' up an' up. 'But with niver a wink at the helm? 'No; nor you. It's agin reason. I'll leave it to any man! Bettles appealed to the circle about the stove, but the fight was on between himself and Lon McFane. 'Reason or no reason, it's the truth I'm tellin' ye.
'Then, father, he cried, 'it's with an aisy heart I'll roll in me flamy blankets, the broad of me back on a bed of coals. Niver shall it be said that Lon McFane took a lie 'twixt the teeth without iver liftin' a hand!
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