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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I think so, Jim. We seem to have destroyed for good and all the great three-cornered conspiracy against us." "Then," said Jim, "ef it's all done I want to talk sense. I'm in favor uv our startin' to Kentucky right away, that is, in about five minutes. Them big woods keep callin' to me, I heard 'em callin' last night in my dreams, an' I hear 'em callin' now when I'm awake.
"Yes," sez she in a saint's whisper, an' at that I explained mesilf; and she tould me what ivry man that is a man, an' many that is a woman, hears wanst in his life. "But what made ye cry at startin', Dinah, darlin'?" sez I. 'Now a man cud take that two ways. I tuk ut as pleased me best an' my first kiss wid ut.
But he sat staring straight at the horizon, and after each puff at the pipe Cai could hear him breathing hard. "The child's not given to lyin'. And yet I don't see Rogers bein' helpless to open the safe on his own account. At the worst 'tis a bad job for ye, 'Bias." "Eh? . . . 'Means sellin' up an' startin' afresh: that's all always supposin' there's jobs to be found, at our age.
Him an' me come ter an' understandin' then an' thar but he swore ter hold his hand twell we could meet man ter man, jest ther two of us." A bitter laugh came with his pause, then he went on: "I 'lowed you trusted him an' I didn't seek ter rouse up no needless fears in yore heart but now we both knows ther truth, an' I'm startin' out d'reckly ter sottle ther score fer all time."
"That kid's no stranger to the range," Mackenzie said, more to himself than to Tim, as he watched him ride off. "No, he used to be around with the cowboys on Malcolm's ranch when he was in the cattle business. He can handle a horse as good as you or me. Malcolm was the man that set me up in the sheep business; I started in with him like you're startin' with me, more than thirty years ago.
I used to take pleasure in getherin' a pink out o' mother's garden in the mornin's when I'd be startin' to school, an' slippin' it on to her desk when she wouldn't be lookin', an' she'd always pin it on her frock when I'd have my head turned the other way. Then when she'd ketch my eye, she'd turn pinker'n the pink. But she never mentioned one o' them pinks to me in her life, nor I to her.
No use tryin' to smooth things over. It's Mr. Robert they'd been sore on all along, suspectin' him of startin' all the wild schemes just because he's young. I'd heard 'em, after they'd moved into the directors' room, insistin' that he ought to be asked to resign.
Ted threw back his head and coughed behind his hand, nonplussed for the moment; presently, noting that the practical side of the case was the only one likely to meet with favour, he resumed artfully "Think how coomfortable it 'ud be of a rainy day, i'stead o' startin' out i' th' wet to feed pig an' do for chickens, to say to your gaffer, 'Sitha, thou mun see to they things afore thou goes to thy wark' an' of an evening, when he' coom awhoam, ye could set him to get th' 'taters, an' chop wood an' that."
"Oh, Birt," he cried, "I war jes' startin' to yer house arter you- uns; they tole me to go an' fetch ye. Fur massy's sake, gimme Nate's grant. I'm fairly afeared o' him. He'll break every bone I own." He held out his hand. "Gimme the grant!" "Nate's grant!" exclaimed Birt aghast. "I hain't got it! I hain't" He paused abruptly. He could not say that he had not touched it.
"But, Uncle Cyrus " Bos'n's eyes grew frightened and moist in a moment, "I ain't going, am I? I don't want to go." "No, no! Course you ain't goin' that is, not for a long while, anyhow," with a sidelong look at the members of the "Board," then present. "But just suppose you and me was startin' on that Europe trip. Who'd you want to say good-by to most of all?"
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