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Paddy walked into the nearest township, had his wounds dressed, and felt no inconvenience from the venom. Under the soubriquet of "Three-fingered Tim," this individual may frequently be met with at Sydney, and, for a glass of grog, will be delighted to recount the whole affair, with the richest of Milesian brogues. The second case was that of a woman.

Raf's determination to get back to his ship was a driving force. The alien officer had watched him, and now a three-fingered hand was laid on Raf's sleeve while its owner looked into Raf's face and mouthed a trilling question. Without much hope the pilot sketched the set of gestures he had used before. And he was surprised when the other led the way down into the building.

"Say, how about those paintings, Pres?" inquired Annixter a little uneasily. "I don't know whether they're good or not. They were painted by a three-fingered Chinaman in Monterey, and I got the lot for thirty dollars, frames thrown in. Why, I think the frames alone are worth thirty dollars." "Well, so do I," declared Presley. He hastened to change the subject.

The poetic Dodsley, with his inexhaustible fund of rhyme, of optimism and of subtlety; Barber Sam, with his envy, his jealousy, and his garrulity; Three-fingered Hoover with his manly yearning, timorousness, tenderness, and awkwardness these three in a seemingly vain quest of love reciprocated; the girl, fair, lonely, dutiful filled with devotion to her brother and striving, amid it all, to preserve a proper womanly neutrality toward these other men; there was in this little comedy among those distant hills so much of real pathos.

One of these was Manuel Garcia, better known as Three-Fingered Jack, who had been ranging over the Sonoma valley for several years, occasionally varying the monotony of murder by tying a victim to a tree and flaying him alive. Joaquin Valenzuela was another, a middle-aged outlaw who had learned the finer arts of bushwhacking down in Mexico under Padre Jurata, the famous guerrilla chief.

Three-fingered Hoover went with Jim Woppit that day. There were thirteen in the posse fatal number mounted on sturdy bronchos and armed to the teeth. They knew their business and they went gayly on their way.

I reckon she was right according to the way society looks at these things, but it was powerful hard on Three-fingered Hoover and Jake Dodsley and Barber Sam to be handicapped by etiquette when they had their bosoms chock full of love and were dying to tell the girl all about it. Jake Dodsley came a heap nearer than the others to letting Miss Woppit know what his exact feelings were.

"Look," she said, "look at that man down the road. He has been tracking you two ever since you left the cabin. Do you know who he is?" "No!" "Then listen. It is three-fingered Dick, one of the escaped road agents. I know him!" "Let us go and warn her," said Cass, eagerly. Miss Porter laid her hand upon his shoulder. "I don't think she'll thank you," she said, dryly.

Janice slid down the ladder, found the little three-fingered weeder, and went to work upon the rich mould around the roots of the vines the sweet peas and morning glories that would soon be blooming in abundance. Before Aunt 'Mira and Marty were up, the pump was working in fine style. Uncle Jason had taken an abundance of water out to the cattle.

So let me do with her ez pleases me." It was their will to let Three-fingered Hoover have his way. With exceeding tenderness he bore the body back to camp and he gave it into the hands of womenfolk to prepare it for burial, that no man's touch should profane that vestige of his love. You see he chose to think of her to the last as she had seemed to him in life.