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Sure they would. I'd be tyin' a noose round my own neck." "Do you know who killed my uncle?" demanded Lane point-blank. "Did you see it done?" Olson's eyes narrowed. A crafty light shone through the slitted lids. "Hold yore hawsses. I ain't said I knew a thing. Not a thing. I was stringin' you." Kirby knew he had overshot the mark. He had been too eager and had alarmed the man.
"Kilt!" cried Larry, forgetting his caution in his excitement; "faix he was, an' Bunco did it, too blissin's on his dirty face putt the ball betune his two eyes an' took the laist bit of skin off yer own nose, but the blood was spoutin' from ye like wather, an' if it hadn't bin that the cliver feller knowed all about tyin' up an' there, honey, I wint an' forgot don't mind me och! sure, he's off again!"
W'en she's a young one, Ma was all for tyin' back her ears and pinchin' her nose with a clo'espin to make it straight or so'thin'; but I says to Ma, w'en Helen 'Lizy lef' home, 'don't ye be one mite afeard, I says, 'but what them bright eyes'll outshine the peaked city gals. Guess they have, sort o', eh, Sis; f'om what John's been writin'?" "I don't know, Father."
"You'll have to be patient with me for a little while, Henry," said Sol in a tone of humility. "When I wuz layin' thar in the lodge with my hands an' feet tied I wuz about eighty years old, jest ez stiff ez could be from the long tyin'. When I reached the edge o' the woods the blood wuz flowin' lively enough to make me 'bout sixty.
"The little girl has got hurt, and they don't think she will live. Poor little pretty thing," sez the hired girl, and busted out a cryin' agin. "How did she get hurt?" sez I, as I laid down the coat, and went to tyin' on my bunnet mekanically. "Wall, the nurse had her out with the baby and the little boys. And we s'pose she had been drinkin' too much.
"She was fair beside herself, bein' as the loss hed piled up on a long sickness o' Sum's, an' a big doctor's bill consequent, an' she nervous anyhow, an' a good deal o' the ribbin tyin' the stems was silk, both sides. "'I'll hev out the marshal, s'she, wild. 'I'll send for Timothy. They can't hev got far with 'em.
'If you ask me, said Ned Dawson, who was critically examining the strands of the rope as he passed it out through the open window, 'If you ask me, I don't see as this is much better than the one we made up by tyin' the short pieces together. Look 'ere, he indicated a part of the rope that was very frayed and worn 'and 'ere's another place just as bad.
The first time she had just gone to lie down, Sarah said; the second time she had that moment started out to walk "Why, my goodness!" said Sarah, "she must 'a' just gone! She was here not a minute ago. I should 'a' thought she'd 'a' seen you tyin' up at the gate?" "Well, evidently she didn't," Dr. Lavendar said, "or she would have waited. Tell her I'm sorry to miss her, Sarah."
He don't belong to no reg'lar denom'nation. "'That's troo, too, I says. 'Short Creek ain't workin' with no reg'lar religious round-up; he's sorter runnin' a floatin' outfit, criss-crossin' the range, prowlin' for mavericks an' strays on his own game. But what of that? He's shorely tyin' 'em down an' brandin' 'em right along.
A moment or two later the riders stopped in front of the ranch house. Brave growled again, but was silenced by the hand on his neck. Young Matt was at the window. "I see them," he whispered. "They're gettin' off their horses, and tyin' them to the corral fence." The smile on the shepherd's face vanished, and he experienced a queer sensation; it was as though something gripped his heart.
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