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"It's going t' look pretty near's it used to. Only I remember Mis' Bolton used to have a flower garden all along that stone wall over there; she was awful fond of flowers. I remember I gave her some roots of pinies and iris out of our yard, and she gave me a new kind of lilac bush pink, it is, and sweet! My! you can smell it a mile off when it's in blow." "Then you knew the Bolton family?"
I said to Si last night I should stand it till 'bout Friday seein' 'em lay on the grass there but if she didn't take 'em in then, I should go over and offer to help her. She has a fire in the settin'-room 'most every night, though we ain't had a frost yet; and as near's I can make out, she's got full red curtains hangin' up to her windows.
These belonged to Jarvis, himself; had been with him on many a journey and were now most often consulted. "Near's h'I can make it, sir," he said, at last, "we're some two hundred miles from Point Hope on the Alaska shores and a bit farther from a point on the Russian shore, which the natives call On-na-tak, though what the place is like h'I can't say, never 'aving been there.
"Did Cal have much money with him?" he asked, finally. "Not so awful much, near's the boys can tell. Mebbe a few hundred, fer spendin' money, like." "Had he had any furse with ary feller down in there lately?" "Nope, not that any one knows of. He just done went off over the range, an' fanned out, seems like, without no special reason."
"If the place is no keepit dacent, we'll never get the young marchioness to come near's again."
She had her feet well drawn up, and her hand over her eyes. "It's a mercy Mis' Field wa'n't killed out in it," said Mrs. Green. "I don't see what in creation she stayed out so in it for," rejoined Mrs. Babcock. "She must have seen the cloud comin' up. This is a pretty big house, ain't it? An' I should think it was furnished nice, near's I can see, but it's terrible old-fashioned."
"If you'll put on your bonnet, Mis' Look, we'll all sa'nter acrost to the Cap'n's and see that Louada Murilla gets hers. Near's I can find out, the rules of this special post-office is that all love-letters to us pass through our wives' hands." In the presence of Mrs. Sproul, after the excitement of the dramatic entrance had subsided, the unhappy captive attempted excuses, cringing pitifully.
"They're comin'," said the man, "thar's five comin' from down along th' Wall at th' south that'll be Jameson, Hill and Thomas, an' some others an' I see about ten or twelve, near's I can make out, driftin' in from up toward th' Pomo settlement. Thar's a dust cloud movin' up from th' Bottle Neck, too. They'll be here by one o'clock at th' furdest."
"Who said it was as tall as the moon?" demanded the excited cow-puncher angrily. "I only meant to convey to your benighted senses some idee uv what it luked like." "Well, how high was it?" asked Jack, in whose tones was a curious note of interest, for a reason we can guess. "About twenty feet, as near's I could judge.
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