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An' Pringle put us all out," complained the boy, but grinning, too. "You wouldn't have let that boy do such a thing in your own club-room now, would you?" "Huh! how'd we ever git a club-room, Janice? We had Poley Haskin's father's barn onc't; but when we tried to heat it with a three-legged cook-stove, Poley's old man put us out in a hurry." "Oh, I mean a real nice place," said the wily Janice.
He was here maybe three days outfittin' a noice spoken ol' gintlemin, wid a gray beard, an' onc't he showed me the locket be the powers, if it do be his, there's an openin' to it, an' a picter inside." The girl touched the spring, revealing the face within, but her eyes were blinded with tears. The landlady looked at her in alarm. "What is it, honey? What is it? Did you know him?"
"I kin hear him howlin' yet when he was a big feller in long pants and his mother used to whale him with a rawhide in the barn for lettin' the cows git foundered in the cornfield when he was drivin' 'em home from pasture. He killed a cow of mine that-a-way onc't a pure Jersey and the best milker I had, an' the ole man had to put up for her.
"Yes, why, Lordy Sade don't you see? You thought I was dead, and I thought you was dead, that's what's the matter. But I never reckoned that you'd think me dead until Chivers allowed that it must be so." Her face whitened in the moonlight "Chivers?" she said blankly. "In course; but nat'rally you don't know him, honey. He only saw you onc't.
He war too pizen mean fer folks ter abide him, an' his goin' away balanced up ther deadenin' of Mose Rowlett." "Ye sez thet old hellion used ter dwell in this hyar house onc't?" "Yes, sir, thet's what I'm noratin' ter ye. Atter he put out his fire an' called his dawgs an' went away Caleb Harper tuck over ther leadin' of ther Harpers and my uncle Jim Rowlett did likewise fer ther Doanes.
"I used to like 'em, but I'm getting pretty tired. You ought to seen the lickin' Jimmy and Belle and me give our dog when we caught him, for taking a little bird she gave us. We waited 'till he was asleep 'nen laid a board on him and all of us jumped on it to onc't. You could a heard him yell a mile. Belle said mebbe we could squeeze the bird out of him. But, squeeze nothing!
He has got the notion that Meldrum and Charlton are terrors, but now he has licked them onc't, he won't figure them out as so bad." "He didn't exactly lick them in a stand-up fight, Dave." "No, he just knocked them down and tromped on them and put them out of business," agreed Dingwell dryly. The eyes of the little Irishman twinkled. "Brad Charlton is giving it out that it was an accident."
"It'll serve him right," said Peggy, delightedly. "Ol' Dan called me a meddler onc't in public an' I'm bound t' git even with him." "Don't betray us, sir," pleaded Beth. "I can't," replied McNutt, frankly; "I'm in it myself, an' we'll jest find out what his blame-twisted ol' fifteen-cent mellings is like."
I thought onc't I'd fadomed the say ov throuble; and that was when I got through fractions at ould Mat Kavanagh's school, in Firdramore, God be good to poor Mat's sowl, though he did deny the cause the day he suffered! but its fluxions itself we're set to bottom now, sink or shwim!
"When onc't I got sober, I done recalled that she was here. So I hit the trail back." Meldrum spoke the exact truth. When the liquor was out of him, he became frightened at what he had done. He had visions of New Mexico hunting him down like a wild dog. At last, unable to stand it any longer, he had come back to free her. "That's good. Saves me the trouble of looking for you.
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