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We bundled into our boat an' made for our smack, but by ill luck we had to pass the Coper, an' nothin' would please the skipper but to go aboard and have a glass. Sterlin' tried to prevent him, but he grew savage an' told him to mind his own business. Well, he had more than one glass, and by that time it was blowin' so 'ard we began to think we'd have some trouble to get back again.
"Syne the Kite came back, an' McRimmon paid off me an' Bell personally, an' the rest of the crew pro rata, I believe it's ca'ed. My share oor share, I should say was just twenty-five thousand pound sterlin'." At this point Janet jumped up and kissed him.
"I ain't had me a feed like that since we took that sutler's wagon back outside Mount Sterlin'. 'Mos' forgot theah was such vittles lyin' 'bout to be sampled. An' you got us most of the cream, too, 'cause you're poor little misguided boys a-runnin' 'way to be with us desperate characters. Git me a bowie knife, an' I'll show you how to cut throats all free, too."
I can tell the real article without lookin' for the "sterlin'" mark on the handle. But I'll bet all the cold-storage eggs in the hotel against the henyard and that's big odds that he wa'n't christened Robinson. And his face is familiar to me. I've seen it somewhere, either in print or in person. I wish I knew where.
"Dat youse must, honey, for I dun praise youse so dat I ain't gwine to have dem disappointed in youse. Who'll be to dinner to-day, Mr. Lee?" "Gen'l Greene an' Lord Sterlin', an' de staff, an' de field an' brigades major ob de day." "Dere, chile, now doan youse depreciate yourself to all dem. Jus' youse put on de pootiest dress youse hab an' do ole Sukey proud."
"Judge," he said at length, "eight thousand pounds of money oughter make a powerful big pile, oughten it?" "It wouldn't weigh quite that much ef you put it on the scales," explained His Honour painstakingly. "I mean pounds sterlin' English money. Near ez I kin figger offhand, it comes in our money to somewheres between thirty-five and forty thousand dollars nearer forty than thirty-five.
Wilkins seized the propitious moment to say impressively: "David Sterlin' has enlisted!" "Sho! has he, though?" "Of course he has! any man with the spirit of a muskeeter would." "Well, he ain't got a family, you see." "He's got his old mother, that sister home from furrin' parts somewheres, and Christie just going to be married. I should like to know who's got a harder family to leave than that?"
He was worth the windy side o' twa million sterlin', an' no friend to his own blood-kin. Money's an awfu' thing overmuch for a lonely man. "I'd taken her out twice, there an' back again, when word came o' the Breslau's breakdown, just as I prophesied.
We was all becalmed, on a mornin' much like this, not far off the Borkum Reef, when our skipper jumped into the boat, ordered my friend Sterlin' an' me into it, an' went off cruisin'. We visited one or two smacks, the skippers o' which were great chums of our skipper, an' he got drunk there. Soon after, a stiff breeze sprang up, an' the admiral signalled to bear away to the nor'-west'ard.
We've a saddle-bag full of gold. If we can reach Sterling " "Man! how're you ever goin' to do that? Sterlin' is a hundred miles." "My plan is to ride on, keeping sharp lookout. Somewhere up the trail we'll take to the sage and go round Cottonwoods and then hit the trail again." "It's a bad plan. You'll kill the burros in two days." "Then we'll walk." "That's more bad an' worse.
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