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Now Sim Squires, mounted on a swift pacing mare, fell in beside Aaron, his knee rubbing the knee of the grizzled wayfarer, and Sim said impressively: "Hit looks right bodaciously like es ef ther war's goin' ter bust loose ergin, Aaron." The other turned level eyes upon his informant and swept him up and down with a searching gaze. "Who give ye them tidin's, son?
It's mighty likely though she's in drafts that a-way: an' I jest dispatches one of my best riders with a lead hoss to scatter over to Tucson an' wire informations east, to freeze onto that money ontil further tidin's; said drafts, if sech thar be, havin' got into the hands of these yere diligent hold-ups aforesaid. "'Forty thousand dollars! remarks Cherokee. 'Which that is a jolt for shore!
He was bad enough before; but now he looks like a man that has got the very heart within him broken." He met Dunroe in the hall, and delivered his message, but added, "I think his lordship has had disagreeable tidin's of some kind to-day, my lord. I never saw him look so ill. To tell you the truth, my lord, I think he has death in his face."
None of them meant to give up after going this far and the men fretted for immediate action, but Alexander to their mystification shook her head. "Not yit," she ruled. "I'm waitin' hyar now fer tidin's thet may holp us." While they stood in the yard of the log house, a figure appeared plodding slowly along the roadway, and the girl's eyes were bent on it with a fixed anxiety.
Quarles, "you'd never in the world guess whut Old Peep O'Day done with the first piece of money he got his hands on out of that there forty thousand pounds of silver dollars he's come into from his uncle's estate." The old man slanted a keen glance in Mr. Quarles' direction. "Tell me, son," he asked softly, "how did you come to hear the glad tidin's so promptly?" "Me?" said Mr. Quarles innocently.
In my room she grew queerly playful, and continued so until she had drawn off my shoes and stockings. But then abruptly, she took my feet in her slim black hands, and with eyes lifted tenderly to mine, said: "How bu'ful 'pon de mountain is dem wha' funnish good tidin's!" She leaned her forehead on my insteps: "Us bleeged to paht some day, Miss Maud."
Then he inquired: "How come ye ter diskiver wh'ar I was at, Jake?" The officer shook his head. "Thet's a question I hain't got ther power ter answer ye, Ken. Somebody over thar got tidin's somehow and drapped a hint ter ther Commonwealth's Attorney." With a nod of comprehension the man who was wanted accepted that explanation. He had not expected a fuller one.
"Get thee up, brother," the Major's note ended, "for there is a sound of abundance of rain." "Is it good news?" asked Barbara. The white-haired man handed her the note, joyfully, and stood at her saddle-bow watching her face as she gravely read it. "Bless the Lord," he said, "and bless you, too, my daughter, faw yo' glad tidin's.
"Did you ever know me to be late! " said John, taking her by the hand, and placing her beside him; "and what would you a' done, Ellen, if I hadn't been here?" "Why, run home as if the life was lavin' me, for fear of seein' something." "You needn't be afeard, Ellen, dear; nothing could harm you, at all events. However, puttin' that aside, have you any betther tidin's than you had when we met last?"
No, sir; she never believed that Dock wuz dead, but she allus talked like he might come in any minnit; and there wuz allus his old place set fur him at the table 'nd nuthin' wuz disturbed in his little room up-stairs. And so five years slipped by 'nd no Dock come back, 'nd there wuz no tidin's uv him. Uv course, the rest uv us knew; but his mother oh, no, she never would believe it.
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