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Updated: May 24, 2025
He was so deeply engrossed in these thoughts, the smoked-out cigar substituted by a pipe, that he remained unaware that Timmons had left the office, or that the Chinese man-of-all-work had silently tiptoed down the stairs and was cautiously peering in through the open doorway to make sure the coast was clear.
Three of us chased him on horseback one day, but we didn't ketch him. So we made up our minds to git back on Dave some way or other, an' it come about this way. About six months arter the smoked-out darnce, four or five of us same fellers was campin' on th' Pipeclay agen, an' it was a dry season. It was dryer an' hotter than it was cold 'n' wet the larst time.
The man had not joined the revels of the other voyageurs but sat on his feet, oriental style, gazing as intently at the flames as if spellbound by some fire-spirit. "What's wrong with that fellow, anyhow?" I asked a veteran trader, who was taking last pulls at a smoked-out pipe. "Sick home-sick," was the laconic reply. "You'd think he was near enough nature here to feel at home!
The young man's face was very red; he was forgetting to hide it now. Then it went white, and he said through clenched teeth: "She sends me mad! I don't know how not to If I don't get her, I shall shoot myself. I shall, you know I'm that sort. It's her eyes. They draw you right out of yourself and leave you " And from his gloved hand the smoked-out cigarette-end fell to the floor.
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