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Eaton, what's the matter with you? I don't understand young men of to-day nohow. Here I been for more'n a year tryin' to have you and Daphne see somethin' of each other, riskin' her father takin' my head off, and now you shy off as if you thought she would bite you. Don't you like my little girl?" Dr. Eaton flushed under the clear brown of his tan. "It isn't that, Miss Doane.
Then he spoke firmly and as if his mind was made up. "Young feller," he said, "I don't know whether you realize it or not, and perhaps I shouldn't be the one to mention it but you're under some obligations to me." His companion nodded. "I realize that," he said. "Yes, but maybe you don't realize the amount of the obligations. I'm riskin' my job keepin' you here.
'If ever we get oot o' this, will ye len' us dew francs? ''Deed, ay. . . . Wullie, ye're riskin' yer life for me. 'Awa' an' chase yersel'! I wonder what that girl o' yours is thinkin' aboot the noo if she's no sleepin'. There was a pause till Macgregor said awkwardly: 'Christina's finished wi' me. 'Eh? 'I couldna tell ye afore; but she had got wind o' Maggie. 'Maggie! Oh, hell!
She'd only been married to me a year when he saved her, riskin' his own life. No one else had the pluck. My little gal, only twenty she was, an' pretty as a picture, an' me fifty miles away when the fire broke out in the hotel where she was. He'd have gone down to hell for a friend, an' he saved my little gal. I had her for five years after that. That's why I got to git to Bindon to-morrow.
Then there's him comin' here with you, knowin' you was alone an' not botherin' you. Then he guarded you right steady, not lettin' Haydon or Deveny run in on you. Then he makes me foreman which seems to prove that he's got sense. Then he goes up the valley an' helps your brother bust up the outlaw gang, riskin' his life a lot. "An' all the time he knows where your dad hid that gold.
She'd only been married to me a year when he saved her, riskin' his own life. No one else had the pluck. My little gal, only twenty she was, an' pretty as a picture, an' me fifty miles away when the fire broke out in the hotel where she was. He'd have gone down to hell for a friend, an' he saved my little gal. I had her for five years after that. That's why I got to git to Bindon to-morrow.
"That's it; I sliced it," declared Harding, as if that were more or less of a valid excuse. "You come over that fence an' I'll slice you!" roared Bishop, taking a step forward. "Things have come to a fine pass in this country if an honest farmer can't take his milk to town without riskin' bein' murdered by plutocrats with 'sliced balls' and all that blankety-blank tommyrot.
Here's you comin' back to this yer camp an' the Sweetwater district, an' right straight away you starts helpin' other folks, pertectin' their homes from hostile Injuns, makin' their lives smoother an' safer. Is it selfish ter do what you've already done? What about your takin' Jim Thurston's place in th' Express, riskin' yer life, an' precious near losin' it? Was that a act of selfishness?"
"And that is how Jack got the name of 'Socks Smith," concluded Mr. Bishop, when the laughter had subsided. "For riskin' his life he got all those nice warm socks and a nickname that uster make him so darned mad that I suppose he's had a hundred fights on account of it, and I'm not certain he won't poke me in the jaw when he gets me alone for tellin' this yarn on him."
"But we can't do anything in life without riskin' our lives an' breakin' our limbs more or less," said the Captain. "An' think o' the interests of science," said Gillie, quoting the Professor. Mrs Roby shook her tall cap and remained unconvinced.
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