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Updated: May 19, 2025
'We don't go there very much, we river-bankers. 'Aren't they aren't they very NICE people in there? said the Mole, a trifle nervously. 'W-e-ll, replied the Rat, 'let me see. The squirrels are all right. AND the rabbits some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot. And then there's Badger, of course. He lives right in the heart of it; wouldn't live anywhere else, either, if you paid him to do it.
"No, you aren't," chorused the loyal girls. "No? True patriots! And yet didn't you think grandma and I were just the least teenty bit hard on you to make you go to bed at the regulation hours tonight when it is Christmas?" "W-e-ll, we would like awfully much to stay up and see if Gail and Faith do as good entertaining their comp'ny as we did," confessed Peace with unusual hesitation.
"W-e-ll," he finally drawled, "you understood I wanted to get on to Camp Stoneman by sunrise, didn't you? Didn't my clerk, Mr. Dawes, tell you?" "He did, yes, sir, and you don't want to get there no more than I do, major. But I told you flat-footed if you let Donovan and those other men go back on the trail they'd find some excuse to stop at Ceralvo's, and, damn 'em, they've done it."
"We don't go there very much, we river-bankers." "Aren't they aren't they very nice people in there?" said the Mole a trifle nervously. "W-e-ll," replied the Rat, "let me see. The squirrels are all right. And the rabbits some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot. And then there's Badger, of course. He lives right in the heart of it; wouldn't live anywhere else, either, if you paid him to do it.
"But we haven't money enough to go on the stage, have we?" "If there was a bull team going out mebbe I could work my way." "W-e-ll." She considered this dubiously. "If we stayed here Mrs. Gillespie would let me wash dishes an' all. She said she'd give me two dollars a week an' my board. Tha's a lot of money, Bob." He looked out of the window. "I don't want trouble with Jake Houck.
"They're the first ladies to pass through here since I came on duty at the station two months ago. You stay at Moreno's, I suppose?" "Yes; the governor meets us there with relays and four or five men. We knew there would be no danger west of the Santa Maria." "W-e-ll, did you stop at Ceralvo's or see any of their people?" "No, I never put in there. Father's very suspicious of that gang.
So both Grandma Effingham and Clarissa ordered the fur muffs and hot-water bottles for the feet placed carefully in the sleigh, which Pompey brought to the door just as the night watch went down the street, crying in his slow, bell-like tones, "Eight o'clock, and all's w-e-ll!"
He was "freezing" to induce the quarry to move and give himself away, because, since the vole was motionless, he had no idea where the little fellow was, although he seemed to be looking straight at him in that execrable way snakes have of seeming to look straight at everything. You think it was a battle of patience? W-e-ll, maybe. Maybe, too, it was a battle of nerves.
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