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But you don't look any too salubrious yourself, old-timer. Aimin' to answer sick call?" "No," said De Launay. "Thinking about mademoiselle. You remember those stakes we saw?" "Banker's claim? Sure." "Well, he's struck something. There is a small army pouring into Shoestring from Maryville. It's a regular, old-time gold rush." "Damn!" said Sucatash, decisively. He pondered the news a moment.
Nobody ever trusts me with nuthin'. Damn it! Fifty dollars! I'll give that Bob hell for this a-marryin' that fine girl on a shoestring an' me a-hangin' around town with upward o' six thousand iron men in the kitty. It ain't fair. If they was married in San Pasqual I wouldn't butt in nohow, but bein' married some place else, where none of us is known, I'd a took a chance an' butted in.
Taking up the volume of closely written sheets which were bound together by a shoestring that Auntie Sue had laughingly found for him, when he had so joyously announced the completion of the last page of his book, he turned the leaves idly, reading here and there a sentence with curious interest.
Even yet he could not trace the flaw in his reasoning which had brought him to earth with such a thump; but he knew, in general, that his error was the common one of trying to run a mine on a shoestring. He had set up in business as a mining magnate on eight hundred dollars and his nerve, and Bible-Back Murray had busted him.
I have been through Shoestring Cañon many times and have seen every foot of its surface. If D'Albret came through the cañon, as he must have done, he must have left some sign of his digging. Yet who has ever found such indications?" "Perhaps he covered it up?" "Perhaps! I do not know. The man, Banker, searches, not only in the cañon but also throughout the range.
Finally, that evening, he made camp about three miles north of Wallace's Lazy Y Ranch, near Willow Spring, and not very far from the gap in the wall of the Esmeraldas which marked the entrance to Shoestring Creek and Cañon. The next morning he did not break camp, but lolled around all day until about three o'clock in the afternoon.
In case your tough crowd from Wellsburg attempts to make a disturbance, the ringleaders will find themselves in Bloomfield lockup. We've made preparations for you and your paid thugs, Mr. Bearover." While this conversation was taking place Bender had pretended to busy himself in tying a shoestring, which he untied and retied several times before it seemed satisfactory to him.
If, now, I had in my possession even an old shoestring that had ever been his, I would beg you to return it to him, and find out for me where I can go never to see him." Frank. "But I shall take care of these dispatches. There's a story about these papers, I see. Here's a ray of daylight penetrating a dark spot. Two links in the chain of circumstances, to say the least.
"It isn't likely that a girl like Lucina could get hurt herself," cried Abigail, with a fine blush of pride. "I suppose you're right," assented the Squire, with a chuckle. "I suppose there's not a young fool in the country but would think himself lucky for a chance to tie the jade's shoestring. I guess there'll be no hanging back of dancers whenever she takes a notion to pipe, eh?"
"An' the day before the note come due, here comes that shoestring in pants with the money to pay the note minus the damages, and four new tires fer the truck! Yessir, wouldn't buy tires off me, even! Could yuh beat that fer gall? And he wouldn't hardly speak." Casey grinned and got his plug of tobacco and inspected the corners absently before he bit into it. "But I got even with 'im," he added.
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