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Updated: June 24, 2025
The schooner listed slowly to starboard and settled by the head. "All clear!" cried Wilbur. "There's something wrong!" exclaimed Moran; "she's settling for'ard." Hoang hailed the schooner a second time. "We're still settling," called Wilbur from the bows, "what's the matter?" "Matter that she's taking water," answered Moran wrathfully.
Knightley had a couple of thousand pounds worth of gold from a new diggings lodged at his private residence for a few days till he could get the escort to call for it; that there was only him and a German doctor, a great scholar he was, named Schiller, in the house. Moran and Daly knew about this, and they were dead on for sticking up the place and getting hold of the gold.
It was some time before he entirely recovered from his dejection. Reynal heard guns fired one day, at the distance of a mile or two from the camp. He grew nervous instantly. The day after, the cause of the alarm appeared. Four trappers, one called Moran, another Saraphin, and the others nicknamed "Rouleau" and "Jean Gras," came to our camp and joined us.
In numbers, their party was about evenly matched with the enemy, and Wade meant that the advantage of surprise, if possible, should rest with him in order to offset such advantage as Moran might find in the shelter of the house. But, however that might be, each man realized that the die had been cast and that the fight, once begun, would go to a finish.
In July he met Nay Moran in Idaho for his second Idaho camping-trip; and it was on his return from this outing that I met him, and ate his jerked meat and loved him, and never stopped doing that for one second. There were three boys in the Parker family, and one girl.
So what with knowing the ground, and they being flat-country men, he kept just out of pistol-shot, and yet showed enough to keep 'em filled up with the notion that they'd run him down after a bit. They fired a shot every now and then, thinking a chance one might wing him, but this only let Moran and Daly see that some one was after dad, and that the hunt was coming their way.
As social reformers gave themselves over to discussion of general principles, so the poor invariably accused poverty itself of their destruction. I recall a certain Mrs. Moran, who was returning one rainy day from the office of the county agent with her arms full of paper bags containing beans and flour which alone lay between her children and starvation.
"Well, I think," said Mis' Jane Moran, "that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on to chirk each other up over a hard time." "And get off delicate ourselves same time," said Buff Miles.
A little while after Wilbur had set off for the station, while Moran was making the last entries in the log-book, seated at the table in the cabin, Jim appeared at the door. "Well," she said, looking up. "China boy him want go asho' plenty big, seeum flen up Chinatown in um city." "Shore leave, is it?" said Moran.
She rode with the straight stirrups of the cattle country, and sat her mount with the grace of a born horsewoman. "What's happened to Moran?" he asked, waving his hat to Trowbridge, as the latter rode toward them. "He's out and around again. I saw him this morning. He was an awful sight. You must keep your eyes open, Gordon, really you must. He'll be more dangerous than ever now."
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