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"Assuredly I might say so," replied the steward, "supposing that I saw Satan standing at my elbow." The waiting-woman started, and having exclaimed, "God bless us I" added, "I wonder, Master Wingate, you can take pleasure in frightening one thus."
You and he are hard up against one another, I know, and I suppose you realise that your growing friendship with Josephine Dredlinton is simply hell for him." "I imagine you know that his attentions to her have been entirely unwelcome," Wingate said calmly.
The forest ranger, or fire warden, halted and surveyed the camp with a slow, searching gaze, narrowly observing the crackling campfire, then suddenly bent a stern look on each member of the Overland party. "Morning, Buddy. You are just in time to sit in with us for a snack of breakfast," greeted Lieutenant Wingate cordially.
"I am worrying about Mr. Wingate, Mrs. Shafto. He was to have been back in two days, and here it is nearly two weeks since he and the Indian went away." "Indians is all varmints, anyway, but don't ye worry 'bout that man of yers. Ain't worth it. None of 'em is." "Don't you say that about my Hippy," rebuked Nora indignantly. "I love my husband, just as you loved yours."
"But you can't all winter," he exclaimed. "If there was one single horse we could spare from the grade work, I'd see you got it for your journeys, but there isn't. We're terribly short now; every animal in the Pass is overworked as it is. You'd better not try going home any more." "I go home at night," she repeated. Wingate frowned impatiently; then in afterthought he smiled.
She had set the table out on the side porch under the budding honeysuckle, and as Mother Mayberry and Miss Wingate, followed by Martin Luther, ever ready to do trencher duty, came out of the back hall Doctor Tom emerged from his office door. "Why, I didn't see you come in, Tom," said Mother. "You muster used wings and lit." "No, I came from across the fields and in the back way.
As for Banion, he made no complaint, but smiled and shook hands with Wingate and all his lieutenants and declared his own loyalty and that of his men; then left for his own little adventure of a half dozen wagons which he was freighting out to Laramie bacon, flour and sugar, for the most part; each wagon driven by a neighbor or a neighbor's son.
Hippy, now being blindfolded, could make out nothing of his surroundings, but he realized that there were trees all about him, and he could hear the snapping of a campfire, which reminded him of food and that he was nearly famished. "If they fry bacon near enough for me to smell, I'll break my bonds and run for the bacon," he added to himself. Lieutenant Wingate was roughly yanked from the horse.
"I cannot see reason to doubt it, but now that you tell me what you do, the man who saved me from the gang of Headlight Joe, and then went on his way, recalled a face I could not place, and now I am sure that it was Sergeant Weston; but he too had round shoulders, while the sergeant did not have, and yet he was then on his way to Wingate, and it was upon his return that I followed his trail."
Barzilla Wingate, he says the same about his crowd. He's comin' on the mornin' train from Wellmouth." "You don't tell me. I ain't seen Barzilla for a long spell. Where you stoppin'? Come up to the house, won't you?" "Can't. I'm goin' to put up over to Obed Gott's. His sister, Polena Ginn, is a relation of mine by marriage. So long! Obed's gone on ahead to tell Polena to put the kettle on.
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