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"No!" exclaimed Scattergood. "Yep!" said all three of them in chorus. "Stood right in front, as I recall it, a-makin' eyes and kickin' up her heels that immodest you wouldn't b'lieve. Looked right at me, too. I seen her." "Got your money's wuth, then, didn't ye? Wa-al?" "Suthin's got to be done." "Sich as?" "Riddin' the town of her." "Go ahead and rid it, then.... G'-by."
He looked up at us dazedly, drew a long breath, and said slowly: "It's no use, gentlemen! Suthin's GOT to be done with that Bulger; and mighty quick." "What's the matter?" we asked eagerly. "Matter!" he repeated, passing his hand across his forehead. "Matter! Look yere! Ye all of you heard them boys from Sawyer's Dam coming over the hill? Ye heard their music mebbe ye heard US join in the chorus?
The squinting eyes took on a sudden gleam, even a keen anticipation that could not escape the contractor's attention. "An' wud I be bossin' 'em about, them bohunks? Wud yuh let me do as I liked?" "Well," smiled Torrance, "not quite what you liked; you'd be under the foreman and me, you know." The halfbreed sighed. "That's allus the way. Suthin's allus foolin' me.
Two! three! it went solemnly on, the mellow cadence scarcely dying before another stroke renewed it. The sexton was Simeon Pease, a little red-headed man, a hunchback, abnormally strong. Suddenly he rose in amazement. His face looked ashen. "Suthin's tollin' the bell!" he gasped. "The bell's a-tollin' an' I ain't there!" A new element of mystery and terror sprang to life.
"Well, I should think you was smart!" cried sundry of them in turn. "Set there like a bump on a log, an' wonder what's the matter! Never heard of anything so numb in all my born days. If I was a man, I guess I'd see!" It was Brad Freeman who broke the spell, with a sudden thought and cry, "By thunder! maybe's suthin's afire!"
The line of coast had already sunk enough to permit the faint silhouette of a trail of smoke to define the horizon line of sky. "Steamer goin' in, eh?" "Yes. D'ye see it might be too hot, in there!" "Then the jig's up?" "No. Suthin's to be done north of St. Lucas. Hush!" He made a gesture of silence, although the conversation, since he had joined them, had been carried on in a continuous whisper.
"Take a squint through my glass. I'm dreffully afeard it's a gal; but suthin's got into my eye, so I can't see." Suthin' had got into the old fellow's eye, suthin' saline and acrid, namely, a tear. "It's a woman," says Wheelwright, and suthin' of the same kind blinded him also. Almost sunset now. But the air was suddenly filled with perplexing snow-dust from a heavy squall.
I wanted to be able to git clear away 'fore he got thinkin' too hard. . . . Las' night the stable was locked. Suthin's scared 'em." "I don't understand why he hasn't told the Police. But I guess he knew they were stole stolen when he bought them." Juno lifted her head, ears pointing, and rumbled in her throat.
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