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She ran in at the side door, and as she did so she heard voices in the kitchen. She halted, listening; for one of the voices she recognized as Miss Peckham's and it was high-pitched and angry. "I wash my hands of you both I can tell you that? exclaimed the spinster from next door. "I don't know why I should have put myself out to help you, Broxton Day, in any case."
He fair killed himself puntin' that trunk up the river and hiding it, and then taking the punt back and letting it drift so as to put Peckham's crew off the scent. "And when he busted it open " Ratty burst into laughter again, and held his sides. Pete looked surly. "We'll make the old man pay for her cuttin' up them didoes," growled the bewhiskered rascal. "And my horse and wagon, too.
There is no use staying here and getting mixed up in something that Englishman thinks we have done. It's easier to go away quietly and let him find out his mistake." "All right," agreed Mark. "I wonder who he is, anyhow?" "He thinks he owns the earth, whoever he is," returned Jack. "He's some sort of a special detective traveling with Lord Peckham's party," explained the doorman.
"Sounds very well, Peckham," he said, "but it won't hold water." The most surprising thing about Peckham's little speculations was that they all succeeded. It made the other men rather mad because he did not care more. "But that's always the way," Freddy Dillingham remarked, with an air of profound philosophy. "It's the fellers that don't care a darn that have all the luck."
Silas Peckham's, and saw that he had contrived to pare down her salary to something less than half its stipulated amount, the look which her countenance wore was as near to that of righteous indignation as her gentle features and soft blue eyes would admit of its being. "Why, Mr. Peckham," she said, "do you mean this?
"He didn't go with his horse, Captain. He fooled us." "What?" "That's so. Horse was found yisterday evenin' down beyand Peckham's scurcely breathed. He'd run fur, but he didn't have nobody on his back." "I see!" ejaculated the ranchman, smiting one doubled fist upon the other palm. "That Pete has fooled us from the start." "Sure did," admitted Sam.
Hiram was from one of the lean streaks in New Hampshire, and, not being overfed in Mr. Silas Peckham's kitchen, was somewhat wanting in stamina, as well as in stomach, for so doubtful an enterprise, as undertaking to carry out his employer's orders in the face of the Colonel's defiance. Just then Mr. Bernard and Abel came up together. "Here they be," said the Colonel. "Stan' beck, gentlemen!" Mr.
"Goodness! you take it calmly, Frances," exclaimed Pratt. "Doesn't anything ruffle you?" She laughed shortly, and made no further remark. They rode on swiftly and within the hour saw the lights of Peckham's ranch-house. Their arrival brought the family to the door, as well as half a dozen punchers up from the bunk-house.
I'm going to Peckham's with you." What could Frances say? Ratty leered at her from his saddle. She knew he must be partly intoxicated, for he was very careless with his matches. He allowed a flaming splinter to fall to the trail, after he lit his cigarette, and, drunk or sober, a cattleman is seldom careless with fire on the plains. It was mid-pasturage season and the ranges were already dry.
Silas Peckham's, and saw that he had contrived to pare down her salary to something less than half its stipulated amount, the look which her countenance wore was as near to that of righteous indignation as her gentle features and soft blue eyes would admit of its being. "Why, Mr. Peckham," she said, "do you mean this?
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