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But she did not believe they were well rid of Ratty just because he had started for Jackleg Station. She had constantly in mind Ratty and the man, Pete, with their heads together beside the campfire; and she wondered what villainy they were plotting. Nevertheless, in the face of possible danger, she went ahead with her scheme of starting for Amarillo in the morning.
God hates an amateur." "What are you after?" persisted Scott. "Fame?" "Yes; I need it in my business." "Are you contemplating a velvet coat and bow tie, and a bunch of the elect at your heels? ratty men, and pop-eyed young women whose coiffure needs weeding?" Duane laughed. "Are they any more deadly than our own sort? Why endure either?
His mother strove to persuade Ratty was deaf. His "gran" strove to bribe Ratty was incorruptible. Gusty argued Ratty answered after his own fashion. "Why won't you learn even a little?" "I'm to go to that 'English fellow' in spring, and I shall have no fun then, so I'm making good use of my time now." "Do you call it 'good use' to be so dreadfully idle and shamefully ignorant?"
'This is not the sort of night for small animals to be out, he said paternally. 'I'm afraid you've been up to some of your pranks again, Ratty. But come along; come into the kitchen. There's a first-rate fire there, and supper and everything.
The Badger laughed good-humouredly and said, "All right, Ratty! It amuses you and it doesn't hurt me. I'm going to do all I've got to do with this here stick." But the Rat only said, "Please, Badger. You know I shouldn't like you to blame me afterwards and say I had forgotten anything!"
Sanderson and I lost our ponies pretty nearly had a bad accident, Sam," and she went on to give the foreman of the ranch the particulars. "I thought something was wrong. I got that little grey hawse of Bill Edwards'. He just come in," said Sam. "Ratty M'Gill was running those steers," Frances told him. "I must report him to daddy. He's been warned before. I think Ratty's got some whiskey."
What d'ye think you're going to do about it?" "Isn't this the fellow who robbed us at the river that time, Frances?" cried Pratt. The girl nodded. Just then she could not speak. "And that fellow Ratty was with him this time?" Again the girl nodded. "Then they shall both be arrested and punished," declared Pratt. "I never heard of such effrontery.
The hatter warmed up the tea-billy again, got out some currant buns, which he had baked himself in the camp-oven, and we were yarning comfortably like two old bushmen, and I had almost forgotten that he was "ratty," when we heard the coach coming. I jumped up to hurry down to the road. This seemed to shake him up. He gripped my hand hard and glanced round in his frightened, haunted way.
"I've got to have a good piece of it myself, if I'm going to take a chance like that!" was one declaration of the ex-cowpuncher's that she heard clearly. Again Ratty said: "They'll not only suspect me, they'll know. Won't the girl tell them? I tell you I want to see my getaway before I make a stir in the matter you can bet on that!"
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.
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