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Bill an' Guy have been sleepin' out, trailin' strange hoss tracks, an' all that. But shore whoever's been prowlin' around heah was too sharp for them. Some bad, crafty, light-steppin' woodsmen 'round heah, Jean.... Three mawnin's ago, just after daylight, I stepped out the back door an' some one of these sneaks I'm talkin' aboot took a shot at me. Missed my head a quarter of an inch!
Then The Dutchman, with his powerful stride, full of easy motion a tireless gallop that would surely land him the winner, Langdon thought, as he hung with breathless interest on every move of Westley's body. Up in the stand Old Bill was expressing in florid racetrack speech to Mortimer his deductions. "Days a good kid on Larcen. See what he's doin'; he's trailin' 'em.
Then, in a low, tense whisper, as she thrust the gun into the man's hands, she cautioned: "Git out of sight. Maybe they've done found out ye've come back maybe they're trailin' ye!" With an instant shock, she remembered what mission had brought him back, and what was his peril; and he, too, for whom the happiness of the moment had swallowed up other things, came back to a recognition of facts.
Jenney of the apple orchard, but holding out a horny hand with unmistakable warmth, "how be you, Austen?" Looking about him, Mr. Jenney put his hand to his mouth, and added, "Didn't expect to see you trailin' on to this here kite." He took a piece of cake between his thumb and forefinger and glanced bashfully at Victoria. "Have some lemonade, Mr. Jenney? Do," she urged.
He wa'n't any too handy at readin' a trail, neither. But he made the grade and that there Friday was sure one white nigger." "Want to tackle another story?" queried Owen, as he put the book back on the shelf. "If it's all the same to you, I'd jest as soon read this one over ag'in. I was trailin' that old Crusoe hombre so clost I didn't git time to set up and take in the scenery."
"I started talkin' 'bout braided linen ropes, not 'bout cattle thieves, so they's no use tellin' you of all th' figurin', an' trailin', an' hard ridin' we did. You know old Mr. Shakespeare sez that levity's th' soul o' wit." "Brevity," corrected Whitey. "What's the difference?" demanded Shorty. "Buck don't know what either o' them words means." "Neither do you," retorted Buck.
Up thar in a bare spot we run plump into Queen sittin' against a tree, right out in the open. Queerest sight y'u ever seen! The damn gunfighter had set down to wait for Isbel, who was trailin' him, as we suspected -an' he died thar. He wasn't cold when we found him.... Somers was quick to see a trick.
But when a comet goes sweepin' acrost ther skies, with a furrow of light trailin' along behind hit we plum fergits them leetle stars hit's like they'd all been snuffed. Hit's ther same way with you, Alexander. Deep down in yore heart thar's powerful fires a-burnin' thet no weak man kain't satisfy. When I looks at ye I clean fergits every other star that ever shone because I've done seed you."
Then he recognized her. "Hello, Joan!" he exclaimed, turning her way. "Reckon you give me a scare. You ain't alone way out here?" "Yes. I was trailing Jim when I saw you," she replied. "Thought you were Jim." "Trailin' Jim! What's up?" "We quarreled. He swore he was going to the devil. Over on the border!
P'r'aps ter-night, after we git inter camp, if these cussed varmints'll let us alone long enuff, I'll give yer a lectur' on trailin', ter pay fer yer killin' that Comanche last night; there they be agin, surer'n shootin'," exclaimed he, suddenly pausing, and pointing to a dark spot far away on the prairie.
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