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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Now, you sing your little song, and be quick about it!" he commanded his captive sternly. "You tell Mother Hart you lied. I hear she's been telling you I'm drunk, Mother Hart didn't you, you old beldam? You say you heap sorry you all time tellum lie.
He even twisted his cruel old lips into a smile. "Me tellum. Me shakeum hand." He held out his left hand and Casey clasped it soberly, though he wanted to jump up and crack his heels together, as he confided afterwards. Injun Jim laid the blade of his knife across the clasped hands. "Yo' lie me, yo' die quick. Injun god biteum. Mebby snake. I dunno. How long yo' ketchum heap jam, heap shirt?"
"For the murders of James Cunningham and Horikawa." Before the words were out of his mouth the Chief had his prisoner handcuffed. Shibo turned to Kirby. "You tellum police I killum Mr. Cunnin'lam and Horikawa?" "Yes." "I plenty sorry I no kill you." "You did your best, Shibo. Took three shots at ten feet. Rotten shooting." "Do you mean that he actually tried to kill you?" James asked in surprise.
Casey grinned disarmingly. "Me ketchum heap jam for Injun Jim. Heap silk shirts. Me go tellum," he said. "Are those they?" the young squaw inquired calmly, and pointed to William. Casey jumped. Any man would, hearing that impeccable sentence issue from the lips of a squaw with a blanket over her head. "Uh-huh," he gulped. "My father is dead.
Old Hagar spat viciously at them both, and shrilled vituperative sentences in her own tongue fortunately; else the things she said must have brought swift retribution. And as if she did not care for consequences and wanted to make her words carry a definite sting, she stopped, grinned maliciously, and spoke the choppy dialect of her tribe. "Yo' tellum me shont-isham.
Me come ranch, me tellum Peaceful, him all time laugh, me. All time shakum head. Mebbyso thinkum I lie shont-isham!" "What more you do?" Good Indian, at least, did not laugh. "Me go camp. Me thinkum, thinkum all time. Dat man have bad heart. Kay bueno. No can sleep thinkum mebbyso do bad for Peaceful. Come ranch, stop all time dark, all time heap watchum.
"No," Peaceful assented unhesitatingly, "you no tell lies, Peppajee. We good friends, many years." "Huh! Man-that-catchum-fish, him no yo' frien'. Shont-isham. All time him speakum lies tellum frien' yo', no frien'. Yo' no more tellum stop yo' wikiup. Kay bueno. Yo' thinkum frien'. All time him have bad heart for yo'. Yo' got ranch. Got plenty hay, plenty apple, plenty all thing for eat.
He tellum you, kay bueno. Makum Injun lazy. "All time eat, all time sleep, playum cards all time, drinkum whisky. Kay bueno. Huh." The grunt stood for disgust of his tribe, always something of an affectation with Peppajee. "My brother, my brother's wife, my brother's wife's ah " He searched his mind, frowning, for an English word, gave it up, and substituted a phrase.
It's got so I can't ride past this old hag in the trail but she gives me the bad eye, and mumbles into her blanket. And if I look sidewise, she yowls all over the country that I'm drunk. I'm getting tired of it!" He shook the squaw as a puppy shakes a shoe shook her till her hair quite hid her ugly old face from sight. "All right Mother Hart she tellum mebbyso let you go.
"If I go get a lot more, and get silk shirts six," he counted with his fingers, "you tell me where your gold mine is." "Yo' bringum heap jam, bringum shirt. Me tellum." His one eye was bright. "Yo' bringum jam. Yo' bringum shirt. Yol giveum me." He patted the bare dirt beside the blankets, signifying that he wanted the jam and shirts there, within reach of his hand.
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