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Updated: June 4, 2025
She'll be along at eleven." "Along at eleven! Man alive, the sheriff will be here with a posse of forty long before that!" "Long before that!" almost screamed old Shiner. "Look, there, what you see! He's coming now!" And then Geordie Graham, listening with beating heart within the open doorway of the caboose, could stand the strain no longer.
Breasting the hill fifty yards below him came the heaving throng of rioters, few of them, luckily, with fire-arms, but all bent on vengeance. Darting downhill to Shiner came the old and the new of the regiment he had known for years and swore by to the end Nolan, its oldest sergeant when discharged; Graham, its youngest subaltern when so recently commissioned.
Lazily, drowsily we'll hold a bamboo pole and guide out shiner through the foam-crowned eddies of the whirlpool, awaiting the flash of a golden side or a lusty tug at the line; and dreamily watch a long, narrow stream of shavings and sawdust, loosed from the opposite planing-mill, float away on the current.
"If I had my tackle here, and a frog's leg or a shiner, I would soon have a pickerel out from under those lilypads." But he kept at work, and, having his basket full of stones, carried them to the pond and plumped them in. A growl of anger came up from behind the bushes. "What the Devil do you mean, you lubber, throwing stones over here to scare away the fish?"
Geoffrey and Enoch then went towards the house, leaving Shiner and Fancy standing side by side on the garden-plot. "Allow me," said Shiner, stooping for the lantern and seizing it at the same time with Fancy. "I can carry it," said Fancy, religiously repressing all inclination to trifle.
The lantern fell, and was extinguished. Fancy moved on. "Where is the path?" said Mr. Shiner. "Here," said Fancy. "Your eyes will get used to the dark in a minute or two." "Till that time will ye lend me your hand?" Fancy gave him the extreme tips of her fingers, and they stepped from the plot into the path. "You don't accept attentions very freely." "It depends upon who offers them."
In the eyes of the few he was much of a sinner; in the eyes of the many no less of a saint; and, after careful casting up of accounts, the colonel of the th Cavalry had declared Shiner far more good than bad, treated him accordingly, and won a surprised and devoted friend and ally. Another officer Shiner swore by was Dr.
Steady, Shiner, while the gentleman shoots you!" The guardian smiled sardonically. "Amuse yourselves, boys, but don't crowd in on me." "Just as you say," replied Casey. "By the way, you needn't tire your arm holding my horse. He'll stand. Besides, I don't like it." The man released the bridle and stepped back. "Make this easy for me, boys, I don't want trouble, but I got my instructions."
Twice, thrice, indeed, since the cavalry had been sent from Fort Reynolds, the overland express had been flagged between Argenta and Summit Siding, and masked men had boarded the train, despoiled the passengers and Pullmans; and once old Shiner had come under suspicion because certain plunder was found at his place.
The driver, and owner as it appeared, was really a handsome man; his companion was Shiner. Both turned round as they passed Dick and Fancy, and stared with bold admiration in her face till they were obliged to attend to the operation of passing the farmer. Dick glanced for an instant at Fancy while she was undergoing their scrutiny; then returned to his driving with rather a sad countenance.
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