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"Th-th-this l-l-lady wants ter s-s-see how we m-m-mine," he explained in painful embarrassment, "a-an' I th-th-thought I 'd t-take her d-d-down if you 'd w-work the w-w-windlass a b-bit." Old Mike turned slowly around and fronted the two, his screwed-up eyes on the girl, while with great deliberation he drew a match along the leg of his canvas trousers. "Onything to oblige ye," he said gruffly.
The delighted landlord, feeling it incumbent upon him to break the silence, offered the friendly observation: "S-s-see you s-s-stutter. S-s-stutter a little m-m-my own self." "Shake!" responded the doctor, who was in too complacent a mood to take offence, and the worthies grasped hands. "Don't know any w-w-way to s-s-stop it, do you?" asked the landlord. "No, I d-d-don't; t-t-tried everything.
I'm I'm sorry." A great light broke over Sam. A vast dam crashed free. His soul rushed forth in one mad wave. "M-M-Miss M-M-Markley Miss Nory!" he exclaimed, whirling about and facing her, "d-d-d-do y-y-you l-l-like to s-s-see me work my airs?" "Yes, it's funny," admitted Nora, on the point of another outbreak in spite of herself. This amiability was an undreamed thing, yet Sam saw his advantage.
"Sure they are," declared Bandy-legs, "and mebbe we'll be able to find out whether it was a wildcat Toby saw, a panther, or one of those awful Injun devils they say come down here from the Canada woods once in a long time." "All right, you c'n laugh all you l-like," the boy who stammered said, obstinately; "but wait and s-s-see what Max says."
The boy was startled and his eyes were big. Dorothy had a green streak through the center of her face where the blue and yellow lights came together, and her appearance seemed to add to his fright. "I I don't s-s-see any-thing funny 'bout it!" he stammered. Just then the buggy tipped slowly over upon its side, the body of the horse tipping also.
S-s-see you later, everybody," and with that he actually started on a run for home, doubtless only thinking that he might in this way shorten the time he would be forced to stay away from the river front, where things were happening it seemed, every minute of the day. Few regular meals were served in Carson that day.
"W-w-want to s-s-see what the old p-p-place l-l-looks like," remarked Bluff, in his positive way. "And there's no use in our staying around here any longer, either, I should think," ventured Phil. "How do we know but what some of the men may just happen to butt in on us, while we're looking their old forge over? And if they did, I just guess they'd make things hum for us.
"Bully!" cried Steve, looking almost as happy as he did on that never-to-be-forgotten day when they found their first lovely pearl in a mussel taken from the Big Sunflower River. "A b-b-bear!" exclaimed Toby. "L-l-let me s-s-see." All of them were soon eagerly examining the marks so plainly described in the light snow.
"Now open up and tell us what you saw, Toby," demanded Steve, who was by nature inclined to be what his chums called "bossy." "L-l-land's sake, didn't you s-s-see it, fellows?" asked the troubled one, his voice trembling with the excitement under which he was laboring. "Stick a pin in him, Steve," advised Bandy-legs; "that's the easiest way to make him talk straight English, you know."
You're as wild as I am to see g-g-gladiators fight, k-k-keener than I am to see a real horse-race in the circus, and you'll have to wait until you're g-g-grown up, as I'll have to, before you s-s-see either. And you'd have g-g-gone to every spectacle, from the very day you were t-t-taken, and not have m-m-missed one. Think of it!
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