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He wore a silver watch and chain, which strongly recommended him in my view and enabled me to endure his air of condescension. He let me feel it and look it all over and I slyly touched the chain with my tongue just to see if it had any taste to it, and Amos told me that his grandfather had given it to him and that it always kept him "kind o' scairt." "Why?"
"You do look a mite flustered," Harney criticised, dropping his loose-jointed frame all over the pillows of the lounging couch. "How's the famine?" Corliss asked. "Any public relief started yet?" "Won't need any public relief. Miss Frona's old man was too forehanded fer 'em. Scairt the daylights out of the critters, I do b'lieve.
And to the closest questioning he had always one answer, and no enlightenment could they drag out of him. "The stage goes, boys," he told them. "An' personal, I ain't scairt a cent's-worth of James an' his gang. Though, to see the way you'se fellers are fallin' over yourselves to make trade with me, I guess I know some folks as is." The marvel of the whole thing confounded the public mind.
Scairt, likely, hearin' me pray theh because I needed he'p, an' 'count of me being glad of the chanct to he'p any man in trouble." "Sho! Who all mout that man be, Parson?" "He said his name were Jest Prebol " "Ho law! Somebody done plugged Jest Prebol!" one of the women cried out, laughing. "That scoundrel's be'n layin' off to git shot this long time, an' so he's got hit.
"God o' Israel! I'm scairt," said Barnes. Down crashed the stick of wood into the box. "What about?" Mr. Barnes tackled a nail that stuck out of the woodwork and tried to pull it between his thumb and finger while I watched the process with growing interest. "It would be like him to put the screws on you now," he grunted, pulling at the nail. "You've got between him an' his prey.
He stopped, seeing that Mamie was regarding him with wide-eyed horror and consternation. "Dennis!" "Yes, my name's Dennis, right enough. That's the trouble. I hav'n't the nerve to kill Barker, and you hav'n't the nerve to skip off with me. Were two of a kind, Mamie, scairt to death of what comes after death. And you know it. So long!" She caught at his arm. "You ain't a-goin' to leave the inlet?"
I want The Squaw and the men who have been on duty at the stockade since the command left. Matthews, you may go." Matthews bowed, Blakely and the sergeant saluted, and the three withdrew. Outside, beyond hearing, they exchanged congratulatory shakes of the hand. "My! but the dander!" breathed the relieved sutler, rolling his apple-round head. "I was that scairt!"
"All right, I'll come. On your head be the consequences, dad. No. I don't need a hat. Fortunately I put on a clean shirt. Will I do, dad? You know I'm 'scairt stiff, as Harry Hobbs would say." His father looked him over, but there was nothing critical in his glance. Pride and love filled his eyes as they ran over his son's face and figure. And small wonder! The youth was good to look upon.
He had sent me a letter which contained the welcome information that the day he left the stage at Canton, he had seen Miss Dunkelberg on the street. "She was lookin' top-notch stop't and spoke to me," he went on. "You cood a nocked me down with a fether I was that scairt.
Some of their cavalry came within three miles of us to-day. Everybody scairt t' death." He began to set out a row of glasses. "What 'll ye hev?" he inquired. "Guess I 'll tip a little blue ruin int' me," said D'ri, with a shiver; "'s a col' night." Seth and I called for the same. "An' you?" said the landlord, turning to Thurst.
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