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Updated: May 12, 2025
Here a bulky, overalled individual, looming large in the semi-darkness, stopped in his labor of pushing about some boxes, and regarded Laurie with surprise. "Are you the watchman?" asked the latter, briskly. "I am, that." "Were you here last night?" "I was." "Was any one else here?" "Divil a wan." "Did you hear any noise during the night?" "Divil a bit." "Were you asleep?"
"I wonder if he'd really shoot or if he's only bluffing," mused Jack. "Take a look at him," advised Tom. Jack did. One glance was enough. There was no bluffing about the grim, overalled farmer. The very way in which he held his gun expressed positive determination not to let the boys escape. But as it so happened, by no action of the boys', matters were suddenly brought to a sharp crisis.
I'll come up to tuck you in, mummy." And though she did not descend to the cellar until the overhauling process was nearly completed she did come down in time for the last of the scene. She perched at the foot of the stairs and watched the two men, overalled, sooty, tobacco-wreathed, and happy.
Perhaps even you should know him in his overalled, stubble-bearded days, with the rich black loam of the Mississippi bottom-lands clinging to his boots. At twenty-five, given a tasselled cap, doublet and hose, and a long, slim pipe, Ben Westerveld would have been the prototype of one of those rollicking, lusty young mynheers that laugh out at you from a Frans Hals canvas.
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