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"Wa-al, now, stranger," exclaimed one of the crowd, "what kind o' critter have you got anyhow, as how you're afraid to back him up very heavy?" "I'll bet five to one agin the emergrant's, gray," said another. "I'm betting the same way. I'll go yer five hundred dollars agin a hundred that the gray nag gits left behind.
And then, as if realizing how useless such a question was when the road was so well defined, he continued: "Wa-al, I reckon that the same team you are huntin' after was driv up that road about an hour or so ago. It was a small pair of dark chestnut hosses, an' good ones, with a fancy buggy, an' two young fellers drivin'." "Where does that road lead to?" asked Bob, excitedly.
You can call me then." "Wa-al, I'll be all fired, double gosh-jiggered," Roy heard one of the men say as they left the shack and emerged into the late afternoon sunlight. The outlaws were all in the shack of their leader. All, that is, but the Chinaman, who had been an interested observer from the outskirts of the crowd.
Peggy hastily explained the accident, and then, as she saw no harm in doing so, she gave Bud a hasty sketch of the events leading up to their being marooned on the alkali. "So you're after that ornery varmint, Red Bill, are yer?" remarked Bud as she concluded; "wa-al I'll do all in my power to help you. I've bin a studyin' that thar leak while you was a talkite.
"Wa-al, maybe not exactly. Not in so many words. But he kind of hinted around and pecked around till I figgered that was what the ol' coot was gittin' at." "Um!... Didn't tell him nothin' of the kind, but as long's you're here you might as well set. Hain't seen much of you lately. How's the hayin'?" "Too much rain. Got her cocked twice and had to spread her ag'in to dry."
On his ankle was a bandage, but his amazing vitality had left no other traces of the bite of the rattlesnake. "Wa-al, Jim Bell," he demanded, "for the third an' last time, air you goin' ter give in peaceable? Ain't no sense in holding out. We've got your stock. We'll tap your water hole if we can strike the vein and it won't take us long.
Moore languidly squinted along the staggering barrier. "Wa-al I reckon I will one o' these days," he said. He grinned in a friendly way at Janice as she started on. "Them Hammett gals is reg'lar fuss-bugets," he observed. "But they're nice folks. So you're Broxton Day's gal? I heard you'd arove. How do you like Poketown?" "I don't know it well enough to say yet, Mr.
Petrie, taking up the tale again. "How many of us us housekeepers, I mean insist upon having things as clean as they should be right around our own back doors?" "Wa-al," groaned Aunt 'Mira, "it takes suthin' like an airthquake to start some of the men-folks " "Why wait for them?" interposed the demure Janice again, knowing that her aunt would not object if she interrupted her.
"But I never would have done it not that. I'd never have taken that paper.... You know I wouldn't, Mr. Baines. Say you know that...." "Wa-al," said Scattergood, dryly, "they hain't no tellin' how fur a woman'll go when she's bein' bamboozled by a scamp so I kind of insured ag'in' your takin' it by takin' it myself.... Er Mr. Curtis, if I was you, I'd sort of slip out soft by the back door.
I take no chances on robbers, like your express agent spoke of. I don't mind telling you that I have fifteen thousand dollars in that bag and I intend to keep it there." "Do tell!" exclaimed Scattergood. "Wa-al, you know your business. Now, then, if you want to drive over six mile with me to-morrer, well git us that money and I'll take the stock." "Good," said Mr. Bowman. "An early start.
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