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But well, we'd best get on. I should give some slight word of this to the Rankin people and old Joe Smith, north of you, and any one else you have time to I mean the men-folk. You know, the usual thing, pass it on." After a few more remarks the buckboard drove off and Rube and Seth returned to their work. The silence between them was broken at last by Rube.
But she was a charming young woman very attractive, I might say. My wife and daughter mentioned it afterward." "May I ask if Mrs. Rankin and your daughter are at present in the house?" asked Lane. "Unfortunately, no. They have gone to spend a few days visiting in Idaho Springs. If they were here they could reënforce any gaps in my memory, which is not all it once was."
Greene with a similar result, but was exposed to a heavy fire from behind a stone fence. Immediately after this a third charge was made under Capt. Rankin, which was the final rout of the enemy, driving them over a bluff on the Licking river, to where they had left their horses.
"We tried so hard to get the new one put in before you got back, but Mr. Rankin won't deliver a thing till it's just so!" "Rankin!" cried Lydia, stopping so short in one of her headlong rushes across the room that she gave the impression of having encountered an invisible obstacle, "Who's that?" "Oh, that's the crazy cabinet-maker we were talking about. The one who " "Why, I've met a Mr.
Rankin calling sharply to her to get down and give a hand with the stretcher. John and Mrs. Rankin were disputing. "Can't you shove it in at the bottom?" he was saying. "No. The first cases must go on top." Her mouth snapped like a clamp. Her eyes were blazing. She was struggling with the head of the stretcher while John heaved at the foot.
But, in a sense not intended by Rankin, Jewdwine was very much occupied, not to say perturbed by the art of S.K.R. Not exactly to the exclusion of every other interest; for Rickman, looking in on the great editor one afternoon, found him almost enthusiastic over his "last discovery."
Rankin walked across the room, his footsteps muffled by the sawdust with which the floor was plentifully strewn. Yet, soft as his tread was, the four shivering creatures were visibly startled by it. The young ranchman passed within "the bar" and stood with his back to the stove. He tried to whistle, but he could not do it. He looked about the room, seeking some object to divert his thoughts.
It seemed to startle Rankin and George Prince as much as it did me. Both exclaimed: "No!" "No? Why not? Everyone is at his post!" Prince repeated, "No!" And Rankin, "But can we trust them? The stewards the crew?" "Eight of them are our own men! You didn't know that, Rankin? They've been aboard the Planetara for several voyages.
But it seems we were mistaken. He married Phyllis Harriman, the young woman to whom he was engaged." Mrs. Rankin smiled, the placid, motherly smile of experience. "I've noticed that men sometimes do marry the girls to whom they are engaged." "Yes, but " Kirby broke off and tried another tack. "How old was the lady? And was she dark or fair?" "Miss Harriman? I should think she may be twenty-five.
They had omitted to arrange with the license clerk to forward a copy of the marriage certificate when it was filed. The rough rider left the required fee with the clerk and a bank note to keep his memory jogged up. "Soon as Mrs. Rankin comes home, will you call her up and remind her about lookin' for the certificate?" he asked. "Sure I will. I've got to have it, anyhow, for the records.
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