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He leaned his storm-beaten sombrero against the leg of his chair near his heel, as carefully as if making preparations for quick action in a hostile country, shook his head when the judge offered a cigar, shifted his worn cartridge belt a bit with a movement that appeared to be as unconscious as unnecessary. "What's restin' so heavy on your mind, Judge?" he inquired.
For two more days they wandered, crossing other and wrong divides, and in those two days they dropped spring behind and climbed up into the abode of winter. "The young men have lost our trail, an' what's to stop us restin' a day?" McCan begged. But no rest was accorded. Smoke and Labiskwee knew their danger. They were lost in the high mountains, and they had seen no game nor signs of game.
"As I observes," he resumed, following a considerable pause which I was jealous to guard against word or question of my own; "I tells this tale to Colonel Sterett, Old Man Enright, an' the others one time when we're restin' from them Wolfville labours of ours an' renooin' our strength with nosepaint in the Red Light bar.
He looked at Marion as if he dared her to make as many guesses as she wished. She shook her head. "You ain't the only one that'd never hit it," he went on with satisfaction. "Thad ropes him, an' while they lay there restin', Sunnysides all tied up so he can't move, an' Brinker rubbin' some bumps he'd come by in the fracas, just then the red comes up onto Sangre de Cristo.
Bainton, that you can't see our lady, more 'specially as you wishes to give a message from Passon Walden himself but you jest go back and tell 'im 'ow it is; Miss Vancourt is restin' and can't be disturbed nohow." Bainton twirled his cap nervously in his hand. "I s'pose no one couldn't say to her quiet-like as 'ow the Five Sisters be chalked? Mrs.
"You'll excuse my interruckting, but before you reely get your steam up, let me have a word on my own account, an' then, if you want to, you can fire away the gun's your own. What I mean is I don't believe in lyin' awake, thinkin' about the future, when a body can put in good licks o' sleep, restin' from the past. It's against my principles. I'm by the day.
"Figgered to plug me while the horses was restin', knowin' I'd have to breathe them about here. Thought one shot would get me. Missed his reckonin'. Must be a mite peeved by this time." His gaze became intent again, but this time it was directed to some underbrush about two hundred yards distant, back of the rocks.
We'll help you take the packs off your mules and they can go grazing for themselves with our horses. You are not saying much about it, but I imagine that you and the mules, too, are pretty nearly worn out." "Them's good mules, mighty good mules, but them an' me, I don't mind tellin' it to you, Jim Boyd, won't fight ag'inst restin' an' eatin' awhile."
He stopped, onst or twice, as though he wor restin' hisself pullin' 'isself together and onst I 'eered 'im cough " Halsey looked round suddenly on his companion as though daring him to mock. Betts, however, could not help himself. He gave an interrupting and sceptical chuckle. "Ghostisses don't cough, as ever I 'eered on." "And why shouldn't they?" said Halsey testily.
"And who else could they 'a' be'n meant for but him and you?" cried Grandma, in a gush of sympathy; "him and you, and anybody else as you seen needed them words and could give 'em to 'em to quiet 'em; for, dear woman! there ain't none on us that see into it, but jest to say it over. Dear woman! we don't know no more. It's what's a restin' all on us. It's what's a restin' all on us!"
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