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As for water beside having my condenser to fall back upon I felt pretty sure that until I got well out toward the open sea I could trust to the morning rains. But for all that I carried two barrels with me filled fresh the last thing before I started stowed in the well of the boat aft of the cabin; and there too I carried a couple of ten-gallon tins of oil for my lanterns and lamps.
There was a clattering on the small stones which strewed the ground thickly there, as of somebody approaching, but the bulk of the horse was between Slavens and the view, as the doctor stopped momentarily in the door of the low tent. Clearing the tent and standing upright, Slavens saw Boyle and Ten-Gallon coming on hurriedly. They had been to Shanklin's camp evidently, looking for him.
Probably, however, the most acceptable part of the concession, was the gift by the Company of a "ten-gallon keg of rum and tobacco." Next spring another demonstration was made by the Metis for other demands, but these were refused. Then, from every direction came the imperious suggestion that some more effective form of government should be adopted. This was granted.
Boyle meant to have this piece of land, and he got it. That's all." Ten-Gallon was fooling around the fire. He drew over toward the group as the Governor came back. "Can my son be removed from here?" the old man asked. The doctor said that he could not, without practically throwing away his slender chance for life.
While searching around for anything else that was portable, they found a lot of butter in a churn, and to their astonishment, a ten-gallon keg of peach brandy. Now they were in the plight of the man who "when it rained mush had no spoon." They had only their canteens, but there was no funnel to pour through. But the mother of invention, as usual, came to their assistance.
From the appearance of both parties, there was something in the wind. Boyle was approaching rapidly, Ten-Gallon trailing a bit, on account of his shorter legs perhaps, or maybe because his valor was even briefer than his wind. Boyle seemed to be grinning, although there was no mirth in his face.
Boyle put his hand to his breast above his heart, pressing it hard; took it away, turned about in his tracks as if bewildered; swayed sickly, sank to his knees, and fell over to his side with the silent, hopeless, huddling movement of a wild creature that has been shot in the woods. Ten-Gallon came from behind the tent, where he had been compressing himself into a crevice between two boulders.
She brought to the lodge first a ten-gallon keg of whisky, blankets, tobacco, and other articles of great value. She was perfectly acquainted with the dispositions of those with whom she had to negotiate.
The young factor went in search of Jack de Lancy and word of the meal he had ordered, and for some reason there was within him a vague vexation which had to do with the look he had seen in the merry eyes of Alfred de Courtenay. He found the great kettles boiling over the fires and a ten-gallon pot of coffee Venting the evening air.
He was a much-bedizened and garnitured man, for all that he lacked a coat to hang his ornaments upon. Stones of doubtful value and unmistakable size ornamented the rings upon his stocky fingers, and dangled in an elaborate "charm" upon the chain of his watch. The only name they ever addressed him by in Comanche other than his official title was Ten-Gallon.
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