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"I reckon I like him," said Toban, his lips grimming; "I like him well enough not to let him pull his freight on account of the Taggarts. Why, damn it!" he added explosively; "I was his father's friend, an' I ain't seein' him lose everything he's got here when he's innocent. Which way did he go?" There was a wild hope in her eyes; she was breathing fast. "Oh," she said; "are you going after him?
"But you don't start till nine o'clock, they tell me?" said Robbie. "Well, man, what of that?" replied the driver; "yon two men will have to sleep to-night, I reckon; and they'll put up to a sartenty somewhear, and that's how we'll come abreast on 'em. It's no use tearan like a crazy thing."
"I reckon you better c-consult me 'bout weeds next time. I don't know much 'bout flowers, but I've knowed all my life 'bout WEEDS." She laid so much emphasis on the word that Hale wondered for the moment if her words had a deeper meaning but she went on: "Ever' spring I have to watch the cows fer two weeks to keep 'em from eatin' those weeds."
Martin Harris was deeply interested. "I reckon you have the best end of it," he said, when the youth had finished. "And you say this Dan Baxter is a son of the rascal who is suspected of robbing Rush & Wilder?" "Yes." "Evidently a hard crowd." "You are right and they ought all of them to be in prison," observed Tom. "By the way, have they heard anything of those robbers?"
There was only five, I reckon, an' they was purty well shot up when we took a hand. You know, Johnny was in it all the time," replied the foreman, smiling. "This town's had the cleaning up it's needed for some time," he added. They were at Jackson's store now, and hurriedly dismounted and ran in to see Johnny.
We wish you to remain, to be a good fellow, to share in our pleasures and take the unpleasant features in the spirit of the Overland Riders. Do you think you can do this?" Grace smiled as she said it. "I reckon yer right, Miss Gray," decided the forest woman after a moment's pondering and glaring through her spectacles at Grace. "Thank you.
John picked up the ink-well, staring in complete amazement at the hard knot of ribbon with which it was garnished. "They seem to have been here some time." "They have; I reckon they're almost due to be called in. They've be'n up ever sence sence " "Who put them up, Ross?" "We did." "What for?" Ross was visibly embarrassed. "Why fer fer the other editor." "For Mr. Fisbee?" "Land, no!
"That is what I have always said, my poor Fortune, that you are better than you think. Thus I hope the judges will have pity on you." "Pity on me? a returned criminal? reckon on it!
"I reckon I'll go with you," he explained. "I haven't been hunting for some time, and as everything is quiet I can get away for three or four days as well as not." "Oh, good! Hooray!" exclaimed the boys. And Horace added: "Now we won't have to worry about getting lost." Not long did it take the lads to clean their rifles and fill their cartridge belt with shells.
"That's just the same way they go on round me. I reckon he's a goner. Don't you feel sorry for him, sometimes?" "Most always most always. He ain't no account; but then he hain't ever done anything to hurt anybody. Just fishes a little, to get money to get drunk on and loafs around considerable; but lord, we all do that leastways most of us preachers and such like.
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