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Meantime the children had reached the goal and stood before the opening of one of the tunnels. Then these four heroes who had looked with cheerful levity on the deadly peril of their descent became suddenly frightened at the mysterious darkness of the cavern and turned pale at its threshold. "Mebbee a wicked Joss backside holee, He catchee Pilats," said Wan Lee, gravely.
"I will take charge on them, and take them to that gentleman's house, in W county, who was here last week looking for a boy and a girl to raise; and mebbee I will scare up somewhere else for the other two young critters." "Take 'em along, then, and see that you get your pay," said the boss, rising.
The Stranger's voice: "Well, now, seein' ez I've been waitin' for ye over an hour, off and on, and ez my bizness with ye is two words, it strikes me yer puttin' on a little too much style in this yer interview, Mr. Jefferson Briggs." Why, I saw him only yesterday, and he agreed to wait a spell longer." The Stranger's voice: "Mebbee he did!
"This man, my friend, he was a brother deputy o' mine, came to be twenty-six without ever falling in love." "My! He must have been hard-hearted your friend." "Mebbee. Well, one fine day he met his mate " "What was she like?" "Like? Why, she was the sweetest thing on earth. I'd as lief try to describe a day such as this " "Oh! I know what's coming. You fell in love with your friend's sweetheart.
"He's a reel healthy-looking child now, though mebbee his colour is a mite too high sorter consumptive looking, as you might say. I never thought you'd raise him when I saw him the day after you brung him home. I reely did not think it was in you and I told Albert's wife so when I got home.
"Mebbee so, but folks nowadays don't 'pear to keer much whether they break the Sabbath or not, trapsen' raound town in and arter meetin' hours, ez if 'twor gin'ral tranin' day and hez gone out agin." "Go on," said Mrs. Blandford, curtly.
"Look here," he said quickly, "he's not there NOW. Why don't you seize the opportunity to slip into the house, make peace with your mother and sisters, and get them to intercede with your father when he returns?" "Thar ain't any mother; she died afore I left. My sister Almiry's a little girl though that's four years ago and mebbee she's growed. My brothers and me didn't pull together much.
"Mebbee no, and mebbee yes," returned Nott, cautiously. "But if he was already concealed inside the ship, as that open door, which you say you barred from the inside, would indicate, what the devil did he want with this?" said Renshaw, producing the monkey wrench he had picked up. Mr. Nott examined the tool carefully, and shook his head with momentous significance.
"Young man," continued Dick, utterly unheeding the explanation, "young man, mebbee you onst had an ole a very ole mother, who, tottering down the vale o' years, made pies. Mebbee, and it's like your blank epicurean soul, ye turned up your nose on the ole woman, and went back on the pies, and on her! She that dandled ye when ye woz a baby, a little baby!
"I reckon ye wouldn't mind," broke in Nott, suddenly, "ef I asked a favor of ye, Mr. Renshaw. Mebbee ye'll allow it's askin' too much in the matter of expense; mebbee ye'll allow it's askin' too much in the matter o' time. But I kalkilate to pay all the expense, and if you'd let me know what yer vally yer time at, I reckon I could stand that. What I'd be askin' is this.
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