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He leaned over the greasy baluster, shouting into the invisible regions below, and was answered promptly enough by a grimy maid-servant with a flickering dip-candle. "'Tain't my fault, nor yet missis's," said this grimy maid. "Mrs. Denover will sit in the dark, which I've " "That will do, Jane Anne," taking the dip and unceremoniously cutting her short. "Vamoose! evaporate!
"Mebby you think it's well, but it's going to be a blamed sight better before sundown to-morrow night," evenly replied the marshal. "I just dropped in sort of free-like to tell you to pack up an' get out of town before dark load yore wagon an' vamoose; an' take yore friends with you, too. If you don't " he did not finish in words, for his tightening lips made them unnecessary.
But we found the prize money very welcome, for we were both hard up at the time. "But now," he continued, "I've kept you up too late as it is, so off with you. Vamoose!" "FELLOWS, I've got an inspiration," said Dick one evening when several of his companions, including Tom and Bert, had gathered in the latter's room. "Well, well," said Bert, "old Dick's got an inspiration, boys.
Now you'd all better 'vamoose' clear out!" "All right we'll go," said Tom, quickly, at the same time motioning to Mr. Jenks to agree with him. The eyes of the young inventor were roving about. He saw what looked like a second trail, leading down the mountain, from the far side of the cave. He was convinced now that there was another way to get to it. Possibly they might find it.
"Why, I don't know. I imagine I shall be very busy most of the time." "That's all right. If you're busy you can send word for me to vamoose. That will be part of the bargain. Good-by." Mrs. Wyeth's first remark, after entering, was concerning Sam's friend. "I rather like that young person," she said. "Samuel idolizes him, of course, but Samuel would worship a hyena if it played football.
After Cummings fired at the fortune-teller he turned quickly and ran up the steps to the roof of the house and so escaped through the vacant dwelling which faced the street. Believing that the old woman had either betrayed him or had been frightened into giving the desired information he decided to "vamoose the ranch" and that quickly.
"I agree that the sooner you vamoose, the prompter the improvement in the landscape. But you're not going off to Goldite with these ladies in the car." Matters might still have culminated differently had Bostwick even asked a civil "Why?" for Van was a generous and easy-going being. Beth, in the road, felt her heart beat violently, with vague excitement and alarm.
But his tender mood was gone. His brow was knit. He began to understand that a man could not run a bad business for twenty years, and then at a day's notice clear himself of all its trailing evil consequences. "I'll vamoose," he said to himself, with resolution. "I'll put me mines in order, and go down into the valley and take the girl with me God bless her!
"Hit it out for home, Dutch," said Hondo Bill's voice commandingly. "You've given us lots of trouble and we're pleased to see the back of your neck. Spiel! Zwei bier! Vamoose!" Zwei bier! Two beers! Hondo reached out and gave Blitzen a smart cut with his quirt. The little mules sprang ahead, glad to be moving again. Fritz urged them along, himself dizzy and muddled over his fearful adventure.
Just keep moving in the way you were headed before. Vamoose." More than ever was Tom assured that the man was from the West. His speech savored of Mexican phrases and slang terms used mainly by Western citizens. And his abrupt and masterly manner and speech aided in this supposition. Tom Swift stayed not to utter a word. It was true he was not so frightened as he had at first been.
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