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With hand uplifted he cried: "Major," and now he was trembling with mingled weakness and eagerness, "I knew that man Murray was following this young feller to squeeze money out of him, and when he couldn't get it by threats, he tried by force. He's followed him clear to Manila, and that's his mark sure's this is! sure's there's a God in heaven!"
"Sure's I'm livin'." "And you were not afraid to come alone to the cabin for help?" "No, I didn't mind." "You're a brave boy, Dan. You've done much for me to-night. Saved my life, in fact." "Oh, I didn't do much. Not worth mentionin'," and the lad took his seat by the bedside. How the time did creep by. Often Dan went to the door and looked out.
"You have only got to speak the word," said the gardener, who had perceived her perplexity, and was desirous of bringing her speedily to his view of the case, "just speak, and he will be carried back to his old cell below, t'other side." "Will he?" "Yes, sure's you live, if he troubles you, Miss Elizabeth. Nobody will think of letting him trouble you."
But Cosmo instead of rising only laughed the more, and went on until at length Grizzie made use of a terrible threat. "As sure's sowens!" she said, "gien ye dinna haud yer tongue wi' that menseless-like lauchin', I'll no tell ye anither auld-warld tale afore Marti'mas." "Will ye tell me ane the nicht gien I haud my tongue an' gang hame wi' ye?" "Ay, that wull I that's gien I can min' upo' ane."
"Oh, it were Brayley's, all right," McNutt retorted. "I could tell by the second-class taste o' them mellings, an' their measley little size. Them things ain't a circumstance to the kind I raise." "Are you sure?" asked Louise. "Sure's shootln'. Guess I'm a jedge o' mellings, when I sees 'em." "No one could see tonight," said Beth. "Feelin's jest the same," declared the little man, confidently.
"Ye maunna tak Gibbie for a young cowt, Maister Sclater, an' think to brak him in," she said, after a thoughtful pause, "or ye'll hae to learn yer mistak. There's no eneuch o' himsel' in him for ye to get a grip o' 'm by that han'le. He aye kens what he wad hae, an' he'll aye get it, as sure's it'll aye be richt. As anent Donal, Donal's my ain, an' I s' say naething.
Now if the trail bed been made after eight o'clock, when the grass was dry, why, it wouldn't stick eny more than it does now." "A very satisfactory explanation," said I. "Now what I propose is," continued Jerry, "thet we just foller the trail, and we'll strike something afore many hours, ez sure's my name's Jerry Vance." "But we may get into trouble," urged I. "Ther ain't no danger.
The searchers explored the inner, tangled recesses of a dozen thickets of spruce-tuck, snarled coverts of alders, hollows hip-deep in sodden snow, and the pits and rocky shelters of knolls and hummocks. "He bes hid away somewheres, sure's Saint Peter was a fisherman," said the skipper. "Axin' yer pardon, skipper, I bes t'inkin' as how maybe he bain't dead," said Nick Leary, humbly.
Kenset left for us here at Baston's yes." "Then," said Burn-Harris, "a little time and your man's ours as sure's the sun shines. Why, this is a hot-bed of crime there's enough work here to keep a whole force busy for months." But Tharon Last did not heed his words. Her mind had leaped away from the present back to that day in spring when Jim Last came home to die.
"Richard," said Ford, "are you going?" "Habn't heerd a word about dat." "Don't you go back on your friends, Richard. Be all ready in time, sure's you live, and go with us, or I'll complain to Dr. Brandegee." Dick's grin was a wide one; but he responded, "I'll be ready. See 'f I ain't."
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