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"By hek! Eph," said the deacon. "I'll be snummed!" said the elder, and they shook hands there and then. "Step back here a minute. I got a mite of business. You won't want the nuisance of that stage line with a grandson to fetch up. I'm kinder hankerin' to run the thing not that it'll be much of an investment." "What you offerin'?" asked the deacon. Scattergood mentioned the sum.
Harrington sat down, still breathing hard in his excitement, but evidently making a resolute effort to control himself. "That's why I brought it heah," he said, answering the other's last words, "You-all like stahtlin' things, don't you? That's what you print. I'm offerin' you a straight bahgain, suh a business proposition. If you-all don't want it, say so."
When the door closed behind the girl old John readjusted his nose glasses and leaned back in his chair. "A clever engineer he is, beyond a doubt," he mused. "For I kept my eye on him while he was layin' out Orcutt's Nettle River project. If he'd made a botch of the job 'twould have saved me offerin' my plant to the city.
Again she did not say exactly what he had thought and hoped she would have said. "Stop it!" she cried. "What's the matther with you men this morning? Ye'd think I was some great lady, the way ye're all offerin' me yer hands an' yer names an' yer influences an' yer dignities. Stop it! Give me that money and let me go." Hawkes did not despair. He paused. "Don't give your answer too hastily.
That night Old Man Curry poured vinegar into the wound. "Well, son," said he, "I hope and trust you remembered what I said and cashed in on the black hoss to-day. They was offerin' 10 to 1 on him in the openin' betting. He's an improved hoss, ain't he?" "He's another horse!" grunted the Kid. "Mose had to choke him all the way down the stretch to keep him from breaking a track record!
There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket sence Cenderilla was played, and now he must be offerin' 'em to this ridiculous young paintress, or whatever she is, that's come to make more mischief than her board's worth.
He was always drawin' of her in one way or another, and had a lot of little pictures that didn't amount to much, and that he didn't never finish. But this big one he worked at off and on all summer. It was sure fine, with her a standin' by the ranch spring, holdin' out a cup of water, and smilin' like she was offerin' you a drink." It was well that the night had fallen.
I'll not be marryin' a wife, I mean by that. "But I like that yin of yours. And here's what I'm offerin' ye. I'll adopt him, gi'en you'll let me ha' him for my ain. I'll save his life. I'll bring him up strong and healthy, as a gentleman and a gentleman's son.
"I kent ye had lost a' by that fearfu' bank failure, but I didna ken ye had come doon sae low. And oh! to think that it was a' through me, an your kindness in offerin' to tak the shares aff my hands. Oh! Maister Black, my heart is wae when I look at ye. Is there onything I can dae for ye?" Now, it was quite a new light to Mr Black that his relative had not found him out.
"'I'm offerin' even money, postin' notices don't hurt this yere camp a little bit, says the stranger. "'Comin' right to cases, says Enright, 'it don't hurt none, but it grates a whole lot. The idee of a mere stranger a-strollin' in an' a-pastin' up of notices, like he's standin' a pat hand on what he knows an' we not in it, is a heap onpleasant. So don't do it no more.
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