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When a goodly heap had been piled beside her, she found her voice again, saying: "I reckon everything that's ever been lost from Sobrante since it began is down here. Elsa's little leathern bags with their knitted covers; Beppo's plumes; Marty's watch, that he thought he had lost in the gulch; Wun Lung's carved image. Oh, Pedro! how dreadful and yet how splendid!"
But it just takes my breath away to think of what Sobrante will be, some time, if that 'find' in the canyon turns out what we imagine. Why but there! No use talking. Wait and see. How long you think before you get an answer back from the town, tellin' what your friend'll do?" "Oh! I expect Marty will bring that answer. He's to wait an hour or two, you know, and give a chance.
Thereafter he would ride back to Sobrante, his own priest beside him, to feast his fill on such food as he tasted but once a year.
Finally, Ninian expressed his own opinion: "It's perfectly natural he should drift back to Sobrante, even with all the opprobrium that would attach to him there. It is his home. He believed or pretended to believe, that it was also his birthright. He knows nothing that would bring him a livelihood in the city " "Except gambling," interrupted Ephraim, contemptuously.
It was at this juncture that, fancying to see her beloved Buster made ready for her ride, Jessica ran singing into the stable, and paused amazed at sight of Ferd, weeping, and so oddly mounted. Horses there were galore in the Sobrante stables and pastures, but never one like this; so white, so spirited, and yet so marvelously marked.
They were all deep in the discussion of the late events at Sobrante and none heard the old traveler's approach over the soft ground, till he stood close beside them with his foot on the lower step. But he heard them and their eager talk; and, pausing a bit, the more completely to surprise them by an intended halloo, he forgot that and all else save what they were saying.
But the poor lad, my half-wit brother Ferd, ugly, sinful, desolate he will be left alone. Is it not? For him, if I restore all, there may still be kindness and a home at Sobrante, that should all be his if " "No, Antonio; you know better. That is a poor, foolish notion that has been put into your head. You know; for Mr.
But Aleck himself had seen the arrival through the window and came out to greet him with the heartiness accorded all the Sobrante people, and to assure him that the story was all true; and that, after all, it were better that he had not been at home when the trouble came; "for it would have broke your heart, 'Forty-niner, into more pieces than old Stiffleg broke your bones, and it wouldn't have healed so soon, neither.
Terrible pity he couldn't have held on till Christmas, his Navidad, that always meant so much to him. But he couldn't. Things have changed at Sobrante since you was here. I'm glad you've come. I'm powerful glad you've come." "Any new trouble, Ephraim?" "H'm! I should say. Ghosts, the women think, and scamps for certain. But it's a long story, and here we are at Aleck's.
You will restore everything that you have taken from the mistress of Sobrante or anybody else so far as it will hereafter be in your power; you shall compel your Brother Ferd to guide a party of prospectors to that secret spot in the canyon where that piece of copper came from; and you shall do all that it is possible to do for the good, and not the evil, of your neighbors. That all clear?"
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