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I b'lieve she and that man with her set the fire that burned up my outfit." Frances herewith took part in the conversation. "Who set the grass-fire, in the first place?" she demanded. "I believe you did that, Ratty M'Gill. You were just reckless enough that day." "Aw, shucks!" said the young man, sheepishly. "But you haven't the same excuse to-day for being reckless," the girl said, earnestly.
The Army prayed, and then a thin "ratty" little woman bobbed up in the ring; she'd gone mad on religion as women do on woman's rights and hundreds of other things. She was so skinny in the face, her jaws so prominent, and her mouth so wide, that when she opened it to speak it was like a ventriloquist's dummy and you could almost see the cracks open down under her ears.
Ratty the caricaturist of his grandmamma, was, "for the nonce," her closeted companion.
'I'd give 'em nerves if any of them tried anything on with me. Here, Mole, fry me some slices of ham, like the good little chap you are. I'm frightfully hungry, and I've got any amount to say to Ratty here. Haven't seen him for an age.
We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
When all was ready for a start once more, the Mole, limp and dejected, took his seat in the stern of the boat; and as they set off, he said in a low voice, broken with emotion, 'Ratty, my generous friend! I am very sorry indeed for my foolish and ungrateful conduct. My heart quite fails me when I think how I might have lost that beautiful luncheon-basket.
He told them just where he had met Ratty M'Gill; but he stuck to his imaginary description of the person who had entrusted the letter to him. "Going, west, you say?" said Captain Rugley. "It might be to lead us off the trail. And then again, he might be going right back to whatever place they have Frances hidden. "I fear we'll have a hard time following a trail to-night, anyway.
"You have not been drinking. What do you suppose Sam and the boys will do to you for treating me in this manner?" "Now, that will do!" said Pete, hoarsely "You hold your tongue, young woman!" But Ratty only laughed. He accepted the letter, took off his sombrero, tucked it under the sweatband, and put on the hat again. Then he started lazily for the pony that he rode.
And a real cattleman's saddle weighs a good bit! Ratty flung down the leather with a grunt, and dropped on the ground beside the fire. "What's the matter with you?" growled the man, Pete. "Been pulling leather?" "There ain't no hawse bawn can make me git off if I don't want," returned Ratty M'Gill, sharply. "I got canned." "Fired?" "Yep. And by that snip of a gal," and he said it viciously.
In the evening we could meet here and I would tell you if I saw anything INTERESTING." Merriman took his cigar from his lips and sat up on the locker. "Look here, old man," he said, "I'm sorry I was a bit ratty last night. I don't know what came over me. I've been thinking of what you said, and I agree that your view is the right one.
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