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"I'd been back fer a drink, sir," explained the sergeant, still eying me, "an' was just comin' in through ther door yer, when I run inter him, sneakin' 'long ther wall thet's ther whole bloomin' story." The officer, a smooth-faced lad, turned abruptly to me. "Well, what have you got to say?" "Nothing," I answered quietly, "you are perfectly welcome to draw your own conclusions."
"`Halloo! cried a dozen men, jumpin' at me. `Wot's that for? `Scrag the hunter, cries one. `Howld yer long tongues, an' hear what he's got to say, shouts an Irishman. "`Keep your minds easy, says I, mountin' a stump, `an' seize that Injun, or I'll have to put a ball into him before he gits off' for, ye see, I obsarved the black villain took fright, and was sneakin' away through the crowd.
"These fellers seemed to be sneakin' down to find that we hadn't no guns and then jump us." "Well, what I said wuz true on jineral principles," laughed Shorty. "But there's occasionally exceptions to even what I tell you. These fellers are as harmless as garter-snakes. Why didn't you come and speak to us?" "Why, you shoved our car out there into the brush and went off and left us.
I want to get out quick." "Wal, you might be too damn considerate of Miss Hammond's sensitive feelin's." There was now no trace of the courteous, kindly old rancher. He looked harder than stone. "How about my feelin's? I want to know if you're goin' to let this sneakin' coyote, this last gasp of the old rum-guzzlin' frontier sheriffs, put you in irons an' hawg-tie you an' drive you off to jail?"
Ben Nyland had gone to Lazette to attend to some business that had demanded his attention. He had delayed going until he could delay no longer. "I hate like blazes to go away an' leave you alone, here to face that beast, Dale, if he comes sneakin' around. But I reckon I've just got to go I can't put it off any longer.
But there's an Englishman you'll find at the Swan an' Anchor a sneakin' blackguard, as would sell his own mother for dhrink he'll help you if you wants to have a hand in the job. I'm off it."
The inhabitants of Catcat drew as near as they dared, and gazed in open-mouthed amazement from Thunder to the Missing Link. "I'll teach you to come creepin' and sneakin' into a man's home, tryin' t' ruin his happiness," the Professor roared, and he made another dash at Nickie. The Missing Link slipped round the tree, and Madame Marve caught her husband, by the arm and dragged him hack.
My capacity for taking punishment without flinching grew apace and before long I got the knack of countering and that pleased him more even than my work in school, I have sometimes thought. "God bless ye, boy!" he exclaimed one day after I had landed heavily on his cheek, "ye've a nice way o' sneakin' in with yer right. I've a notion ye may find it useful some day."
Hewlett took the paper and corrugated his brows over its vindictive message; then his high cheekbones flushed and from his unshaven lips gushed a cascade of oath-embroidered denunciation. "Afore God Almighty," he ripped out in conclusion, "kin any man comprehend ther sneakin', low-down meanness of a feller thet seeks ter terrify somebody sich fashion es thet?
That hawss was in then, I will swear 'cause I 'member his halter-shank'd come untied and I fixed it. Ev'rythin' in th' garden was lovely 'cep' fur that 'damned hobo sneakin' round. He was gettin' a drink at th' trough an' I chased him. But he beat it up inta th' loft an' I'm that scared of fire," he ended lamely, "I never lock up fur that." Slavin nodded wisely. "Yes!
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