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"Thanks," he said slowly. "I dare say you mean it, although I don't know why you should. But I'd rather not talk about that. It's done." "I suppose that's the best way," she agreed, although she gave him a doubtful sort of glance, as if she scarcely knew how to take part of what he said. "Isn't it lovely after the storm?
"I've handled more big jobs than any man of my age and experience on the road, and yet I'm fired." The husband sighed wearily. "I built that big pipe line in Portland; I sold those smelters in Anaconda, and the cyanide tanks for the Highland Girl. Yes, and a lot of other jobs, too. I know all about the smelter business, but that's no sign I can sell electric belts or corn salve.
"The er use of elegant and precise language by er young ladies cannot be too sedulously cultivated" But here the child laughed, and snuggling still closer, gurgled: "That's right! Give it to her when she comes down! That's the style!" and the colonel stopped, discomfited. Nevertheless, there was a certain wholesome glow in the contact of this nestling little figure.
The detective ruefully inspected the scarlet band on his perfecto. "And I'll bet a doughnut that boy in his soul is crazy to have it over with. Well-born, well-educated; those are the lads that pay in full." "You're a philosopher, too. I'll tell you something. One of the reasons why I decline to talk is this: that boy's punishment will be enough." "That's not my game.
We don't want to be caught off our guard here." Chester and Stubbs did as Hal directed, though the latter mumbled to himself as he took his position some distance away. "That's the trouble with these contraptions," he said. "Always out of whack. If a man had a good horse now " He broke off and continued to mumble something unintelligible to himself.
He was too fully occupied with his new happiness to allow so little a thing as the farm-hand's opinion to disturb him. Once out of sight of the farm buildings, the lad pulled the mare to one side of the road, where he examined her carefully. "Huh!" he exclaimed. "Heaves, ringbone and spavin. I don't know how much more is the matter with her, but that's enough.
Donkin, who had been stupefied with fear, revived suddenly and began to shout: "'Ear 'im; that's the way they tawlk to us. Vy donch 'ee 'it 'im one ov yer? 'It 'im. 'It 'im! Comin' the mate over us. We are as good men as 'ee! We're all goin' to 'ell now. We 'ave been starved in this rotten ship, an' now we're goin' to be drowned for them black 'earted bullies! 'It 'im!"
He strained his eyes trying to follow the figures into the darker shadows of the gully from which they emerged shortly. "That's the derailer they're carrying they're going to slap it on the rail," breathed the detective. They could hear "Red Mike" grunting as he and Gibson struggled up the side of the roadbed.
Why are you so stingy with them?" "That's the way I got them," countered Washer. "I'll donate though. I'll do better than that: I'll tap you." The colonel promptly counted his remaining red and white chips. Washer as promptly measured up to them and to the blues. "Told you the truth!" he exulted. "I said I had threes, and here they are! Three tens and a king and another ten!"
"With all my heart, with all my heart," said the archdeacon cordially, holding his friend fast by the hand. "It's just as I would have it. She is an excellent young woman; she will not come to you empty-handed; and I think she will make you a good wife. If she does her duty by you as her sister does by me, you'll be a happy man; that's all I can say."
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