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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Plenty bad-men right here in Lost Valley," said the girl quietly, "an' th' breed ain't dyin' out as I can see. Th' settlers need a new leader now that Jim Last's gone." And she fell to playing absently with her fork upon the cloth. The boys changed the subject hurriedly. "I found a dead brandin' fire in th' Cup Rim yesterday, Burt," said Masters, "quite a scrabbled space around it.
As Gadabout slowly moved along, she occasionally got out of the channel into the shallows, in spite of chart and sounding-pole; and more than once she struck bottom. But she always discovered the channel and scrabbled back into it before the soft mud, even aided by the falling tide, could get a good hold of her. No, not quite always was she so fortunate.
'You're still a boy. Surrender! You'll outlive your sentence many years. I promise clemency. Hold, you fool! "But Snecker was not to be denied the last game move. He scrabbled for his gun. Just then something, a breathtaking intuition I'll never know what made me turn my head. I saw the bartender deliberately aim a huge gun at Steele. If he had not been so slow, I would have been too late.
"She took it and gin it a throw across the room with all her might; and it hit agin the wall and broke into a thousand bits, when out rolled hundreds of gold pieces; great gold eagles and guineas flew round the kitchen jest as thick as dandelions in a meadow. I tell you, she scrabbled them up pretty quick, and we all helped her.
So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
Yet I am told that her wrinkles and creases, although manifold, were not harsh nor rugged; and that her face might be likened rather to a billet of love written on fair white vellum, that had been somewhat crumpled by the hand of him who hates Youth and Love, than to some musty old conveyance or mortgage-deed scrabbled on yellow, damp-stained, rat-gnawed parchment.
And detecting further recalcitrancy in the face of his visitor, he pounced on him, scrabbled up a handful of cloth in the back of his coat, and propelled him out of doors and up the street. After a few protesting squawks Mr. Crymble went along. An interested group of men, who had bolted out of Broadway's store, surveyed them as they passed at a brisk pace.
An' it seemed like I hed sort o' scrabbled her up an' held her over a precipice, an' said to her: 'See the dead. Look at yourself. Come forth come forth! Clean up do somethin' to help, anything, if it's only tackin' on evergreens an' doin' the Dead's hair up becomin' oh, I s'pose, rilly, I was sayin' to her: 'Put on thy beautiful garments. Awake.
"How could I be anywhere else, I'd like to know?" said Jean, indignantly. "I called and called, but I couldn't get you to let me out," and, bouncing up, she scrabbled the plates back into their box, then caught up the camera to see if all was as it should be with that.
"It was by sea," he said smiling, "a true treasure of the deep." Just then there came a sharp stroke and a splash on the window, and something struggled and scrabbled there against the darkness. He saw a hand with the little finger cut off spread out against the pane. "My God," he cried, "what is that?" But my mother, when she turned, saw only a splotch of wet on the outside of the glass.
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