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Updated: June 22, 2025
"You got good ears," answered the other, and drew aside a blanket which hung on the back wall of the room. A wooden trough was disclosed hanging under a ledge of rock, and water dripped into it softly, slowly. "Almost providential, that rock," remarked Sinnet. "You've got your well at your back door.
They'd guess what I was doin' there. It's surer here. He's got to come down the trail, an' when I spot him by the Juniper clump" he jerked an arm towards a spot almost a mile farther up the valley "I kin scoot up the underbrush a bit and git him plumb. I could do it from here, sure, but I don't want no mistake. Once only, jest one shot, that's all I want, Sinnet."
'Oh yes, said Lawford, 'I do. I have been making tremendous use of it. Her eyelid flickered at his candid glance. 'And does your business permit of much walking? 'Well, I've been malingering these last few days idling at home; but I am usually more or less my own man, Miss Sinnet. I walk a little. 'H'm, but not much in my direction, Mr Lawford? she quizzed him.
He gave a low cry and turned back towards Sinnet, who lay in a pool of blood. Sinnet was speaking. He went and stooped over him. "Em'ly threw me over for Clint," the voice said huskily, "and I followed to have it out with Clint. So did Greevy, but Greevy was drunk. I saw them meet. I was hid. I saw that Clint would kill Greevy, and I fired.
Tweedie one morning about ten, as she was going over to visit the native pastor's wife, who was sick; and, tying her hands and feet together with sinnet, he put her in a hammock and carried her off up the mountain; and this, if you please, in open daylight, with scores of people looking on, while she screamed and struggled and fought, and they helpless to do anything against the line of Afiola's rifles and Tweedie himself not four hundred yards away, organizing a Y.M.C.A. for untattooed boys, and explaining how they was to play basket ball, and learn arithmetic nights!
The picture our deck presented on one day will serve for that seen on most days in fine weather: on one side the spun-yarn winches were going, manufacturing spun-yarn out of old junk a never-ending source of employment; Mr Pincott and his mates were busily at work building a boat on the other; the sail-maker and his gang were repairing some of the sails, and making light ones for the gentle breezes of the Pacific; while Fleming and his crew were laying up rope, and the rest of the watch were knotting yarns, making sinnet, wad-bags, wads, chafing gear of all descriptions, such as worming, parcelling, roundings, spun-yarn, rope-yarn, marline, seizing, stuffs, and service of all kinds; the names of which things alone are, I suspect, sufficient to puzzle a landsman, so I will say no more about them.
They'd guess what I was doin' there. It's surer here. He's got to come down the trail, an' when I spot him by the Juniper clump" he jerked an arm toward a spot almost a mile farther up the valley "I kin scoot up the underbrush a bit and git him plumb. I could do it from here, sure, but I don't want no mistake. Once only, jest one shot, that's all I want, Sinnet."
Surely, now, if you had recognised my face you would have addressed me at once? 'Was he, do you think, Miss Sinnet, a little uncertain, perhaps? 'Never mind, never mind; let me get on with my story first. The next thing my gentleman does is more mysterious still.
A party of six was told off to climb the cocoa palms across the road; while another, shouting and hallooing like schoolboys, was dispatched to Holderson's station to get sinnet. There was a noisy wrangle over spelling. "I never seed it like that," said one, squinting over Billy's slate, "and I don't believe nobody else ever did neither."
'All horrible indolence, Miss Sinnet. But I often often think of you; and especially just lately. 'Well, now, she wriggled round her head to get a better view of him rather stiffly seated on his chair, 'that's very peculiar; because I too have been thinking lately a great deal of you. And yet I fancy I shall succeed in mystifying you presently not precisely of you, but of somebody else!
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