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He took the paper from my hand and read: "Sun-up Baseball Club. September 19, 1908. Last Match of the Season" He knew what I meant. "Yes!" he said. "It is the epitaph of Summer."
"I'd like to know what the Jim Hickey you're about, Hiram," sniffed Henry, in disgust. "What's all this litter back here in the wagon?" "You come over and give me a hand in the morning early now, say by sun-up and you'll find out. I want a couple of husky chaps like you," chuckled Hiram. "I'll get Pete Dickerson to work against me."
He must be ready for his breakfast, bendin' over that tobacco ever since sun-up." Jane took down the tin dinner horn from its peg, and went to the back door with it, and blew a long, loud blast, crumbling away in broken sounds. The baby was beating the air with its hands up and down, and gurgling its delight in the noise when she came back.
"All right; only hurry up!" said Uncle Dick cheerfully, settling himself back in his chair, "I reckon to turn in as soon as I've rastled with your hash, for I've got to turn out agin and be off at sun-up." They were all very quiet again, so quiet that they could not help noticing that the sound of Collinson's preparations for their supper had ceased too.
Instead he flung the drawings about the room, stamped savagely upon them, then rushed down-stairs and devoured a table d'hôte dinner. He washed the meal down with a bottle of red wine, smoked a long cigar, then undressed and went to bed amid the scattered blueprints. He slept like a dead man. He arose at sun-up, clear-headed, calm.
"After all," said Carrie, "I don't think I'd catch fire sooner than you and Jake, and I certainly don't eat as much. Then I can save where you would waste." She paused and gave Jim a half-mocking smile. "I imagine you mean well, but I've resolved to stay." Jim made a resigned gesture. "Then I expect there's no more to be said! Well, I'm tired and we must get busy again at sun-up."
He took from a fold of his scarlet sash a small parcel neatly folded in white paper as fresh and spotless as himself. Holding it in his fingers, he went on: "I happened to be at Heavy Tree Hill early this morning before sun-up. In the darkness I struck your cabin, and I reckon I struck somebody else!
Jim agreed and for a time they talked about something else, but next morning Jake got a jar when he went to load the pack-horses and found two of his helpers gone. "They pulled out at sun-up," one of the rest explained. "A stranger came along, looking for choppers; offered fifty cents more than you promised, and Steve and Pete went off with him."
"You'd better tell him," said Fitzhugh, shifting an unpleasant task. "Well," said Wainwright, "we heard orders given to shoot the first man that comes out before morning, but before all to kill you if you sticks your nose outside before sun-up." The amiable intentions of the victors set me to thinking. If it was important to keep me here till morning, it must be important to me to get out.
Offer some other inducement, O'mie," Marjie replied laughingly. "Oh, well, Tillhurst'll be there, and one or two of the new folks, all eligible." "What makes you call me 'Star-face'? That's what Jean Pahusca used to call me." She shivered. "Oh, it fits you; but if you object, I can make it, 'Moon-face, or 'Sun-up." "Or 'Skylight, or 'Big Dipper'; so you can keep to the blue firmament.
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