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You can't take out no insurance at this office. `All right, then, says Andy; `an' if I git stove in by floatin' boxes, you an' Tom'll have to eat the rest of them salt crackers. `Now, boy, says I, an' he wasn't much more, bein' only nineteen year old, `you'd better keep out o' that hold. You'll just git yourself smashed.
"On his daily still hunt for the maimed, the halt and the blind. You say the chap had been run over by the stage? Well, Tom'll take his case on a contingent fee fifty per cent. to Tom and fifty per cent. to the client of all that comes of it bring an action against the stage line and recover heavy damages. Oh, it's terrible to think what that poor injured young man will suffer.
"They'll make a shift to pay everything, Bessy," he said, "and yet leave you your furniture; and your sisters'll do something for you and Tom'll grow up though what he's to be I don't know I've done what I could I've given him a eddication and there's the little wench, she'll get married but it's a poor tale "
Motherwell knew at one glance that Tom would learn no good from her she was such a flighty looking thing! Flowers on the under side of her hat! So poor Tom grew up a clod of the valley. Yet Mrs. Motherwell would tell you, "Our Tom'll be the richest man in these parts.
Wylie," said one of the troopers, gently. "It ain't for much anyway, and maybe Tom'll be able to clear himself." Mary sank on her knees by her mother's side, crying "Speak to me, mother. Oh, my God, she's dying! Speak for my sake, mother. Don't die, mother; it's all a mistake. Don't die and leave me here alone." But the poor old woman was dead.
Those cattle are worth $15 on the hoof in Kansas City. Tom knew it and I knew it. He had $6,000, and I let him have the $10,000 to make the deal with. His brother Ed took 'em on to market three weeks ago. He ought to be back 'most any day now with the money. When he comes Tom'll pay that note." The bank examiner was shocked.
"Tom'll see to that," added Chick-chick. "If Tom doesn't do it alone, the scouts will," insisted Tom. "We wouldn't let robbers loot a bank with us in camp not a mile away, would we, Mr. Newton?" "We wouldn't expect to have anything of the kind going on," agreed Mr. Newton. "Great yarn, this," Matt Burton, was saying to his own little group.
Tom'll sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin' his brow, an' a-lookin' at the fire of a night. He should be a bit livelier now, a fine young fellow like him. My wife says, when she goes in sometimes, an' he takes no notice of her, he sits lookin' into the fire, and frownin' as if he was watchin' folks at work in it." "He thinks so much about business," said Maggie.
"Say, Dunk, I'll match you to see who rushes a growler of beer. Tom'll be here pretty soon store ought to be closed by now. We'll have some ready for him." "Right, Bill," agreed James T. Duncan. Mr. Wrenn lost. He departed, after secretively obtaining not one, but two pitchers, in one of which he got a "pint of dark" and in the other a surprise.
He had $6,000, and I let him have the $10,000 to make the deal with. His brother Ed took 'em on to market three weeks ago. He ought to be back 'most any day now with the money. When he comes Tom'll pay that note." The bank examiner was shocked. It was, perhaps, his duty to step out to the telegraph office and wire the situation to the Comptroller. But he did not.
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