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Updated: May 26, 2025
Ef they 'll let us alone fer three days, we 'll be out o' here. Now, you mark my word." "How?" I inquired. "Jest a leetle job o' slidin' downhill," he said. "There's a big drain-pipe goes under this cell t' the river, prob'ly. He says it's bigger 'n a barrel." We saved our candle that day, and walked up and down, from wall to wall, for exercise.
"Everybody says the war'll last prob'ly for years an' years. You can't make out alone. Everything's goin' to rack and ruin. You could rent out the farm for a year, on trial. The Burdickers'd take it, and glad. They got those three strappin' louts that's all flat-footed or slab-sided or cross-eyed or somethin', and no good for the army. Let them run it on shares.
"Nobody will scold 'cept Uncle Jack, and he won't know about it. He's prob'ly gone away by this time." King noticed that his lip trembled suddenly. "Gone away?" "Yes. He was banished this morning right after breakfast." The announcement began with a tremor but ended with imperial firmness. "Great Scott!" gasped the other, genuinely shocked. "I banished him," said the Prince ruefully.
I was frozen stiff, like I told you, sir; and I wasn't thinking of nothin' like that. Besides, the train was makin' a noise; an' me not havin' my thoughts on nothin' but how cold I was, an' how far I had to drive, I mos' prob'ly wouldn't have noticed although I might have." "Looks to me," chimed in Leverage, "as if that's where the shift must have taken place; though it beats me "
He'll have some conditions, prob'ly, but none but what he can work off, I guess." "Then, if you wish to have him go to college, by all means let him go to Harvard, I should say. It's our great university and our oldest. I'm not a college man myself; but, if I were, I should wish to have been a Harvard man.
Pish, now, havin' been to a 'Frisco seminary she can pick it up, prob'ly in no time; but ma ought to have practice here at home, so she can find out what brand she likes best. Now, Marthy, them Turkish cigarettes, in a nice silver box with some naked ladies painted on the outside, and your own monogram 'M.B. in gold letters on every cigarette "
The boys followed them curiously, and when they reached the bridge Injun stopped. "Huh! Go back again, too," he muttered. And sure enough in the maze of footprints many seemed to lead back toward the water tank. "Why do you s'pose they went to the bridge? Prob'ly to see if it was safe; that the robbers hadn't damaged it," Whitey said.
Hull was already perspiring profusely. He dragged a red bandanna from his pocket and mopped the roll of fat that swelled over his collar. "I we had a an argument about a settlement nothin' serious." "Did he throw you out of his room and down the stairs?" "No, sir, nothin' like that a-tall. We might 'a' scuffled some, kinda in fun like. Prob'ly it looked like we was fightin', but we wasn't.
When I reached the office I made straight for Blackie's smoke-filled sanctum. When my tale was ended he let me cry all over his desk, with my head buried in a heap of galley-proofs and my tears watering his paste-pot. He sat calmly by, smoking. Finally he began gently to philosophize. "Now girl, he's prob'ly better off there than he ever was at home with his mother soused all the time.
This particular saloon had about wore out its welcome with me, so I was game for any enterprise, and I allowed a little patient-huntin' would prob'ly do me good. I drawed my six gun and looked her over. "It's a new sport, but I bet I'll take to it," said I. "What d'you do, crease 'em or cripple 'em?" "Pshaw! Put up that hearse ticket," Mike told me. "Us doctors don't take human life, we save it."
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