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"Lord bless you, Mr Lascelles," was the reply, "the canvas ain't wove that'd stand a single minute before such a howlin' gale as this here; it'd be blown clean out of the gaskets if we was to cast a single one of 'em loose; indeed, I shouldn't be a bit surprised to find half the sails blown away from the spars as it is, when we get light enough to see how the little barkie has come out of the scrimmage.
"That'd be rather a long way round, wouldn't it?" said Jill, all seriousness in her grey eyes. "Ah, I mean the Spanish Toledo, not the one in the States." "Oh, I see " She checked herself suddenly and looked round. "He's laughing at me," she said. "What have I said wrong?" "If anyone asked me where we should be without our Jill," said Berry, "I couldn't tell them."
She came over to him, not exactly suspicious, still with a slight diminution of friendliness in eyes and tone; and, as, if there were room for a mistake on his part, herself went through the likely pockets in turn. "Not a heller!" Her sharp little eyes travelled over him. "That'd do." She laid her hand on his scarf-pin. He took it out and gave it to her.
He seemed extremely interested and amused. "I'm not so sure, Mr. Welles, about your being safe in never locking your doors at night, as they all tell you, up here. With that for a neighbor!" The older man had a friendly smile for the facetious intention of this. "I guess I won't have anything that'd be worth locking doors on," he said.
"I'll admit he is a little bit self-centered." "What's that? Oh, you mean he's got ingrowin' feelings. Yes, everythin' that he has to do with is big. Why, John, he's the kind of a man that'd entertain his wife by talkin' about his corns, and think it interestin' because they was his'n." John laughed. "Perhaps if he was married and had a wife to tell him a few things " "John John!"
I thought about it for awhile, and then recollected seein' a little grocery that'd been set up nigh here in a board shanty." "Yes, we know about it," said Shorty, exchanging a look with Si. "Well," continued the Deacon, "I concluded that I'd jest slip over there, and mebbe I could find something that'd give variety to your pork and beans.
But still, I'll tell ye: out there at Tralee there's what'd have saved Sodom and Gomorrah-aye, that'd have saved Jerusalem, and there wouldn't ha' been a single moan from Jeremiah. Out at Tralee there's as beautiful a little lady as you'd want to see. Just a girl she is, not more than nineteen or twenty years of age.
They's a dozen men in this town that would make a colander out of anybody that'd hint things about a deal like that. Lawsy, ma'am, folks has got sense, ain't they? But if you doubt 'em, I reckon we can take care of you." Lawler prepared and ate breakfast.
I chopped up his pardner's something cruel, and I couldn't find a willing boy that'd work with him. I'd noticed this little starved Mexican kid hanging around, and I was desperate. So I grabbed him, shoved on the gloves and put him in. He was tougher'n rawhide, but weak. And he didn't know the first letter in the alphabet of boxing. Prayne chopped him to ribbons.
But he can't do anything. And Marylyn Oh, I wish there was someone with us, now someone that'd help us if anything went wrong." Of a sudden, looking down at her hands, her eyes fell upon the crimson stripes left across her palms by the plow. And, in fancy, a horseman was riding swiftly toward her from the east, again, while she leaned on the cross-brace and waited.
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