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"Doesn't trust him; can you blame her? She's takin' her chances, and she knows it, plannin' the big things ahead. And she's not missin' a bet." "And more," remarked Kendric drily, "she hankers for the loot herself?" "She wouldn't know a thing about it," protested Barlow. "Escobar would keep his mouth shut; he's wise hog enough for that." "But she does know, Twisty.
I cannot forget how kind she was when I had bronchitis; and ingratitude is a dreadful vice. But it is quite true. 'It is not a bear, said Oswald; and we all went on, still on tiptoe, round a twisty path and on to a lawn, and there was Noel.
"You were burned out tonight. Have you forgotten that? Your herds were raided. Even old Twisty Barlow, once a square man, followed Zoraida Castelmar into that! And Zoraida, herself, was one of the raiders!" "How do you know?" demanded Bruce. And always he laid significant stress on the word of certainty. "I saw the horse she rode. I heard the whistle which she wears on a chain about her throat.
"Well, they were so anxious about it that he began next morning, and sent out different ones for different things special kinds of roots, and several sorts of very twisty things, such as grape-vine clingers, and honeysuckle, and a great lot of love-vine that yellow stuff that winds about everything and can choke even a ragweed to death.
It is a straight, shapely wand, in most varieties, though it is curious to find that some apples, notably the favorite Rhode Island Greening, start in promptly to be picturesquely crooked and twisty.
School interfered a good deal with huntin' treasure, but things happened now and then to let us out. The professor looked exactly like Tom Sawyer's teacher, except ours wore a beard. He seemed awful old and kind of knotty and twisty.
He lighted another match, and ex- amined the ground again. "'Tis a canter now." he said, throwing away the light. "A twisty, rickety pace for a gig. The fact is, they over- drove her at starting, we shall catch 'em yet." Again they hastened on, and entered Blackmore Vale. Coggan's watch struck one.
"It's a hand-picked crew, Twisty," conceded Kendric mirthfully when Nigger Ben was again at the wheel and the two adventurers paced forward. "The kind to have at hand on a pirate cruise!" For Nigger Ben offered both amusement during long hours and skilful service and no end of muscular strength, while, in his own way, Charlie was a jewel. A king of cooks and a man to keep his mouth shut.
On his own magnificent estate, as well as at the Arboretum, this superb shrub or small tree riots in rosy beauty in early spring. While the leaves do come with these flowers, they are actually crowded back out of apparent sight by the straight wands of rose-red blooms, held by the twisty little tree at every angle and in indescribable beauty.
I says to me: 'You ain't astride nothin' but a little roan goat that only knows cows; but you got the chancet of your life, Tom Collins, to make a killin'. That's right! "That is a twisty gulch I'll show it to you while we're up here prospectin' and all I could hear was old Blackie's hoofs clattering, and once in a while he'd whistle. He's got a neigh like a steam whistle.
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