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And though it was dark in the cabin Young Pete knew that his pop had gestured toward the bed. Annersley had never spoken in that tone before, and Young Pete resented it. Pete was easily led, but mighty hard to drive. "Nothin' doin'!" said Pete. "You can't boss me 'round like that! You said we was pardners, and that we was both boss. I knowed they was comin' and I fanned it up here to tell you.
I didn't say nothin', only jest that look, but it spoke volumes and volumes, and my pardner silently devoured the volumes, and, as I say, looked meachin' for pretty near a quarter of a hour. And that is a long time for a man to look smut, and conscience-struck. It hain't in 'em to be mortified for any length of time, as is well known by female pardners.
"We were old pardners," he says, with a moistened eye. There was a huskiness in the man's voice; not born of the mellow cognac he loved. No; Joe Woods was far away then, in the days of his sturdy youth. He was swinging the pick once more on the bars of the American River, and listening to its music rippling along under the giant pines of California.
These were the days of the red-shirted miner, of romance, of Arcadian simplicity, of clean, honest working under blue skies and beneath the warm California sun, of immense fortunes made quickly, of faithful "pardners," and all the rest. This life was so complete in all its elements that, as we look back upon it, we unconsciously give it a longer period than it actually occupied.
But I meant tramps with diamond ear-rings, and cuff-buttons, and Saratoga trunks, and big accounts at their bankers. And he said, "Oh, shaw!" But I went on nobly, onmindful of that shaw, as female pardners have to be, if they accomplish all the talkin' they want to.
But few, indeed, are the female pardners who can git him to wear 'em. He added, "You know I represent you legally, Samantha; what I do is jest the same as though you did it." Sez I, "Mebby that is law, but whether it is gospel is another question.
That's where you left it," interrupted the officer. "Yes. I fired at Northrup as he rushed me." "Um-hu," assented Jones, impudent unbelief in his eye. "At Northrup or at Macdonald." "What do you think I did with the money, then? Did I eat it?" "Not so you could notice it. Since you put it to me flat-foot, you gave it to your pardners. You didn't want it. They did.
I have seen upwards of ten acres of the mash burnin' over at one time, and felt awestruck, and so did Sister Bobbett, for we went down together once with our pardners on a buckboard. But, sez I to myself almost instinctively: "What if Sister Bobbett wuz here? What would she say?"
Now, you've showed everybody that you can talk just a little, anyhow, and he smiles, 'and they all think you're the man caused the trouble. I don't see but that you've got to stand trial. I wish I could help you, Bill. "'But see here, Colonel, I says; 'I couldn't squeal on Kink. We're pardners. I just had to give him a chance to cut.
And how he kep workin', and hopin', and believin', and persistin' in thinkin' that he wuz in the right on't, and kep on a lookin' over the wide waste of waters for the New Land. And I thought to myself how I would enjoy a good visit with Christopher, and how he would sympathize with us, who, though we may be scorfed at by our pardners, and the world.
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