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She went round behind a big table, where they had piles o' jimcracks, an' popped behind a curtain, an' jest as I was gittin' scared for fear she wuz gone agi'n, out she come an' took the place of a tired-lookin' woman that set on a high stool sellin' the jimcracks.
"You'd a-thought Henry would a-come," whispered Sol; "but we decided that he was too tall an' somehow too strikin'-lookin' to come in here ez a common, everyday Injun, so it fell to me to loaf in, me bein' a tired-lookin' sort o' feller, anyway. But they're out thar in the woods a-waitin', Henry an' Tom Ross an' that ornery cuss, Jim Hart."
I questioned the lad closely regarding the 'tired-lookin' woman, whom he described as 'tallish, an' slim, an' not much on looks, but dressed in Turkish fez, and Zouave jacket, and 'painted thick. He had watched her till evening came, and then the tallish woman had returned and the brunette had stepped behind the curtain once more.
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