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"But w'at kin' o' men? Thet's w'at Ah kain't see." Marylyn shook her head. Then, as she bent her look inquiringly toward the far-away camp, a horseman suddenly left it and started on a gallop toward them. "One's coming this way fast!" she exclaimed, and rushed back into the shack for her bonnet. Lancaster and his younger daughter commented excitedly as the rider approached.
"Here, hold on; that's enough!" cried Jack, as Ralph Stetson bent over backward with the canteen still at his lips. "Why, I haven't begun to drink yet," protested Ralph. "Chaw on a bullet, son," advised Pete. "Thet's highly recommended for the thirst." "Water suits me better," grumbled Ralph, nevertheless yielding the canteen to Jack. The lad drank sparingly, as did Pete and the others.
Nothin' ain't no good? ... Life's over, fer all thet's sweet an' right? Is thet your stand?" "Yes, it must be, Reddy," said Neale, with scorn of himself. "But you it needn't apply to you." "I reckon I'm sorry," rejoined Larry, ignoring Neale's last words. "I always hoped you'd get over Allie's loss.... You had so much to live fer."
Thet's horse, an' thet's about his dignity an' the size of his soul 'fore he's been broke an' rawhided a piece. Now we ain't goin' to give ornery unswitched horse, that hain't done nawthin' wuth a quart of oats sence he wuz foaled, pet names that would be good enough fer Nancy Hanks, or Alix, or Directum, who hev. Don't you try to back off acrost them rocks. Wait where you are!
Eastern capital becoming interested. I've heard rumours of that for a week past. What's the idea? struck anything?" Lacy, a long, rangy fellow, with a heavy moustache, and a scar over one eye, partially concealed by his hat brim, grinned at the others as though at a good joke. "No, nuthin' particular as yet," he answered; "but you hev', an' I reckon thet's just about as good.
"Wal, I should smile! Fer two days an' it sure beats me. They've never had a sight of us. But they keep comin'." "They! Who?" she asked, swiftly. "I hate to tell you, but I reckon I ought. Thet's Cordts an' two of his gang." "Oh don't tell me so!" cried Lucy, suddenly terrified.
"Woman, if you don't tell me where your husband is, I'll have you arrested," said he, angrily. "I don't know myself. He's gone off over the mountains to git some things. Thet's all I know about it, and if yer want to arrest me, yer kin."
"It'll be turrible cold at the crossin' to-day, won't it, Dog?" or, "Thet's No. 23 puffin' up in the cut: don't yer know her bell? Wonder, Dog, what she's switched fur?" he would say to him. He noticed, too, that the girl's cheeks were not so white and pinched.
"I'm thinking, sir, that it's a kind o' providential dispensation thet's hendered him all this time; it's done me such a sight o' good to hear you talk." The Elder smiled tenderly on poor old Ike. "Everything is a dispensation, Ike, accordin' to my way o' thinkin';" and again he thought involuntarily of "little Draxy."
I know that!" shouted Auchincloss, tottering up, with his face now black-red. "Do you think thet's new to me? Shut up, Dale! I can't stand it." "But Al there's worse," went on Dale, hurriedly. "Worse! Your life's threatened an' your niece, Helen she's to be " "Shut up an' clear out!" roared Auchincloss, waving his huge fists.
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