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Thet bandit wouldn't marry no woman. He's a woman-hater. He was famous fer thet over in California. He's run off with you kidnapped you, thet's shore.... An' Gulden swears he shot his own men an' was in turn shot by you. Thet bullet-hole in his back was full of powder. There's liable to be a muss-up any time.... Shore, miss, you'd better sneak off with me tonight when they're all asleep.
Rube gazed at the twinkling eyes raised to his; he gave a chuckling grunt, and his words came with elephantine meaning. "She'll be all of a muss-up at it." Ma's smile broadened. "What's makin' you laff, Ma?" the old man asked. "Jest nuthin'. I was figgerin' if the gal could if we could git her reply before spring opens." "Seems likely if the boat don't sink."
"I'd about come to that conclusion," said Bob, "but it surely does me good to feel that father's behind me in it." "My trip in '79 or whenever it was was exactly on this same muss-up." Mr. Taylor went on: "Your father owned this timber land then, and wanted to borrow money on it.
It's that checked jacket I bought at Hamlin's sale last year made over." "Say, it's classy! You look like all the money in the world, honey." "Huh, two yards of coat-lining, forty-four cents, and Ida Bell's last year's office-hat reblocked, sixty-five." "You're the show-piece of the town, all right. Come on; let's pick up a crowd and muss-up Claxton Road a little." "I meant what I said, Charley.
They ain't no tracks either side the muss-up where the express was stopped. And at that p'int the mountain is straight up and down, like it is here." They talked it over, and argued it, and reexamined the evidence, but without avail. The stubborn facts remained: Between the hold-up and the sheet of rock was one set of tracks going one way; elsewhere, nothing. Nearly a year passed.
Why didn't you go to Captain Selwyn? or to Mr. Gerard?" "I did! not to Captain Selwyn I was ashamed to. But I went to Austin and he fired up and lit into me and we had a muss-up and I've stayed away since." "Oh, Gerald! And it simply proves me right." "No, it doesn't; I did go to Neergard and made a clean breast of it. And he let me have what I wanted like a good fellow "
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