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I'd been tied up about three weeks when the justice looked in one day, and after inquiring for me, and saying, 'good morning, Jack, and seeming a little by the head: 'about this affair of yourn, Jack, says he, 'now, if you'll mind your eye when you get out my trouble's worth ten dollars-and pay me, I'll discharge you, and charge the costs to the State.
"Near the camp!" cried the major; "why, we are nearly an hour's walk away." "Yes, sir; but that can't matter now. I know that there's someone in the place and that my trouble's over, so I can lie down here in the soft sand and go to sleep till morning, and then I shall be able to come on." "Here, Mark," said the major decisively, "pick out a comfortable spot somewhere.
"She's Old Man Trouble's favorite daughter," said Heavy. "Didn't you know that? Now, Miss Fuss-Budget, stop croaking. Nothing's going to happen to Ruthie." "Not with Tom on hand, you can wager," added Helen, with every confidence in her twin brother. But at last the watches of the party could not be doubted. Two hours had crept by and it was getting very late in the evening.
'I do, she answered, shuddering. 'An' that'll make no difference to our love? 'I will always love you, Harry. 'This trouble's making a great change in you, Chris, he said yearningly. 'You're pale and ill. It'll wear you out. She felt herself weakening again, but summoned all her resolution and stood true to her purpose. 'I can bear it, she said. 'I must! Promise me.
"Trouble's the dowry of every man's birth, A nettle adversity flings us; It yields to the grip of the masterful hand, When we play coward it stings us. "Chorus." "Don't say chorus; that's common." "I have to say chorus. My verses don't speak for themselves, and no one would know it was a chorus if I didn't explain.
"Yes, but Nicknack is there in his stable. He isn't loose at all, and he'd have to be loose to come here and knock over Trouble's playhouse. The goat is tied fast just where he was last night." So Nicknack was; and Grandpa Martin, who was the first one up in the camp that morning, said the goat was lying quietly down in his stable when he went to give him a drink of water.
Believe me, then, the trouble's over unless we make more for ourselves. Now, promise you'll do as I say and let me manage." "I'll try," she breathed softly. "No, no! That won't do. I'm beginning to find you out. You may get some foolish, self-sacrificing notion in your head that it would be best for me, when it would be my ruination. Will you promise?" "Yes." "Famous!
On his return he brought news; the news we had all been expecting and waiting for. "The big trouble's on the way," he reported. "Bennett Avenue's all lit up with the news that there's been a new strike on Bull Mountain. I heard about it mighty near everywhere I went. Up to date nobody seems to know just where it is, or who has made it; but they've got hold of the main guy, all right.
"When can I see you?" he whispered anxiously. "I don't know," she whispered back; "every hour's taken." "What about Sunday afternoon?" "I've promised to motor out to Anchordale with Aunt Flo and Uncle Ranny to hunt for wild flowers. Think of it! When all this trouble's brewing." "Anchordale," repeated Quin absently, holding her coat suspended by the collar and one sleeve. "Anchordale! By golly!
"Ah!" said Steelman, "lumbago, I suppose? My father suffered cruel from it for years." "Naw," said the old man, moving closer to the fence. "It ain't in me back; the trouble's with me leg." "Oh!" said Steelman. "One a bit shorter than the other?" "Well, yes. It seems to be wearin' a bit shorter. I must see to it." "Hip disease, perhaps?" said Steelman. "A brother o' mine had "
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