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Sometimes when he thought I wasn't looking his eyes would get like a fellow's I seen once in death-row up the river, but if he caught me peepin' he'd laugh and straighten up sudden." "Well, I don't suppose you can get anything on him till he gives you a chance," said Mr. Hagan grudgingly, "but what this man Tollman wants is results.
It wuz a starlight night, an' peepin' out uv a loophole in the front uv ther house, they seen redskins skulkin' in the shadow o' the trees. They couldn't tell how many ther wuz, but nigh a dozen they thought, an' they didn't know how many more might be hidin' in the bushes.
"If we could only think up some way to help ease the strain, it would be a good thing," observed Jack, thoughtfully. "I wish you could. It would ease my mind more than I care to tell you," was Paul's answer. "One thing, the storm is over," called out Jud, just then; "see, there's a break in the clouds, and I reckon the sun will be peepin' out soon."
At what?" "A man, sah, wot was a-creepin' around de ranch, sah, peepin' in de doah an' de winders, sah." "A man?" "Hank Stiger, I'll wager a dollar!" cried Dan. "It must have been that fellow," added Ralph. "What became of the man, Pompey?" went on Mr. Radbury. "I can't say as to dat, sah. As soon as I dun spot him, sah, I got de gun, an' he run away like de Old Boy was after him, sah."
I think he's comin' here to-night to ask me to pay him to do some dirty job, an' I won't do it, see?" and he winked at Faust. "There he is now," declared Langdon. "I hear a step on the gravel. Quick, slip into the room; he'll be peepin' through the windows; he's like a fox." There was a knock at the door.
"Why," rejoined the Yankee quickly, but as if without design, intercepting the officers' nearer approach, "that bag, I calculate, contains my provisions, and these here blankets that you see, peepin' like from under the sail, are what I makes my bed of while out huntin'."
Shif'less Sol, however, gazed up at the moon with an unquiet eye. "She looks too soft an' fleecy," he said, speaking of the moon. "When she's peepin' through them lacy-lookin' clouds it means that trouble is about to stir." "We'll keep a watch," said Henry.
Two or three wivewomen of the Chinese stock, a bustin' of their stays off a'most, and as fat as show-beef; an oldest son or two, with the eend of the silver spoon he was born with, a peepin' out o' the corner of his mouth, and his face as vacant as a horn lantern without a candle in it; a younger son or so jist from college, who looks as if he had an idea he'd have to airn his livin', and whose lantern face looks as if it had had a candle in it, that had e'en amost burnt the sides out, rather thin and pale, with streaks of Latin and Greek in it; one or two everlastin' pretty young galls, so pretty as there is nothin' to do, you can't hardly help bein' spooney on 'em.
The old gambler evinced considerable alarm until Lane explained how he happened to be there; and then his feeling changed to solicitude. "Lane, you look awful," he said. "If I look the way I feel it's no wonder you're shocked," returned Lane. "Ahuh! What'd you see?" queried the other, curiously. "When?" "Why, you numskull, while you were peepin' all that time." Lane sombrely shook his head.
"You go back to her ladyship as fast as you can scamper, and tell her I wasn't soft enough to bow myself off the stage without peepin' at what Santa Claus had put in my stockin'. Tell her 'twould only o' bin a matter o' time if I hadn't peeped. As it is, it's a matter o' less time. Tell her a life will pay for this, and she jolly well knows whose!"
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