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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Let Drumm go let all of them go let the cattle go, let everything go! none of it's worth riskin' your life for!" Stilwell's affectionate good wife pleaded with him. "Now, Mother, I'm not goin' to git killed," Morgan heard Stilwell say, his very assurance calming.
To wait fer him sure means riskin' you." "But " Joan broke off and turned her face up to the canopy of smoke driving across them. "Rain!" she cried, with a wild thrill of hope. "Rain and in a deluge." In a moment the very heavens seemed to be emptying their reservoirs. It came, not in drops, but in streams that smote the earth, the fire, themselves with an almost crushing force.
"She likes ye, or she'd never a sent ye that warnin. Akshins speaks louder'n words. She's kinder flustered an dunno her own mind, that's all. Gals don't, genally. Ye'd be a darnation fool ter let her slip through yer fingers naow, arter riskin yer neck an all aour necks in this ere job jess ter git a holt of her, an a settin sech store by her ez ye allers hev. Take a fool's advice, Cap'n.
When the dense gloom of the pass lightened, and there was a wide space of sky and stars overhead, Ladd halted and stood silent a moment. "Luck again!" he whispered. "The wind's in your face, Jim. The horses won't scent you. Go slow. Don't crack a stone. Keep close under the wall. Try to get up as high as this at the other end. Wait till daylight before riskin' a loose slope.
If it wa'n't for the superintendent bein' such a friend of mine, there'd have been a reg'lar assistant keeper app'inted long ago. The gov'ment don't pick up its lightkeepers same as you would farm hands. There's civil service to be gone through, and the like of that. But you wanted to stay, and I've kept you, riskin' my own job, as I said.
He don't much care riskin' fellers' lives, though I never heard of him riskin' his own." "He'd very near to answer for mine this voyage," said Haco, as well as he could through a mouthful of steak and potato. "How was that?"
If we ain't got that there's no use of worryin'. We can't blast ourselves out o' this without riskin' the schooner. We ought to be thankful we froze in gentle. There ain't a plank started. The floe'll fend us off. There ain't enny big chunks enny way near us aft. Luck to make a decent landin' is all we need, an' it's my hunch it's comin' our way." His "hunch" was correct.
"Well," said Bill, "it means that this yer coach was PASSED THROUGH FREE to-night." "You don't object to THAT surely? I think we were deucedly lucky." Bill slowly drew off his other glove. "I've been riskin' my everlastin' life on this d d line three times a week," he said with mock humility, "and I'm allus thankful for small mercies.
"I wish I had stolen away last night." "Don't ye get killed!" answered Sairy sharply. "That's what I'm afraid of. I know you'll go riskin' yourself!" "God bless you," said Tom. "You've been like a son to us these five years. Don't you forget to write." "I won't," answered Allan. "I'll write you long letters. And I won't get killed, Aunt Sairy. I'll take the best of care."
In fact, I may have mentioned casually that a whole case of Gordon was worth riskin' a blister here and there. As for Nick, he simply listens and gasps. You know how desperate some of them sporty ginks are, who started out so gay only a year or so ago with a private stock in the cellar that they figured would last 'em until the country rose in wrath and undid Mr. Volstead's famous act?
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