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I hope you won't feel the loss of that little sum, in case you do lose it, which you certainly will." "Oh, I guess I could stand it," retorted the Vermonter. "I presume you could, Mr. Gallup. You're young and energetic, and you may live long enough to accumulate ten thousand more dollars." "Don't yeou fret abaout me!" snapped Gallup, in exasperation. "You quite misunderstand," smiled Silence.
"Naow hold up y'r hands, yeou fellah," he said, "'n' keep 'em up, while this man puts the rope mound y'r wrists." Dick felt himself helpless, and, rather than have his disabled arm roughly dealt with, held up his hands. Mr. Bernard did as Abel said; he was in a purely passive state, and obeyed orders like a child.
Jones, ses she, lookin' sarcier than ever, 'I shall expect yeou to hev a sign painted with your real name on it and put up on your store, and yeou must build a new heouse before I merry yeou. That sobered me deown a leetle. I sed, 'But Jinny, I don't want ye to merry me, unless ye like me. I'll build a heouse and gin it tew ye, ef that's what ye want.
"Begorra, to see yez is a soight for sore eyes and to hear yez is music to deaf ears!" chuckled Barney Mulloy. "You're the same old rabid champeen av the downtrodden masses. You're still pratin' away about the coming of the great earthquake." "That's right, by gum!" grinned Gallup. "But, say, why didn't yeou warn the people of Frisco before they gut shook up?"
What was that strange sound, and was it possible the earth beneath him was trembling? He leaped back to the center of the hole. Yes, the earth was surely quaking, and now some loose dirt came down on top of him. "It is the earthquake!" he murmured, and at that moment came a loud cry from Plum. "Jack! Jack! come up, as quick as yeou can!
Then, after all kinds o' adventures in the mountains, I reached here, an' here I am, an' so happy to see yeou I don't know what to do." As he finished tears stood in the honest eyes of the Yankee lad, and Jack was no less affected. They embraced, the native looking on in wonder, until the matter was explained to him.
"Come yeou right in an' set down, my little dearrs," said the woman. "They'll niver touch my man. He'll poach 'em to rights. Iss fai! Fresh berries an' cream. Us Dartymoor folk niver forgit their friends. But them Bidevor poachers, they've no hem to their garments. Sugar? My man he've digged a badger for yeou, my dearrs. 'Tis in the linhay in a box."
"Oh, no," laughed Silence, "that won't do. I can't accept your check. I want to see the money." "Mebbe yeou think the check ain't no good? Didn't yeou come into the bank and see me deposit the money?" "Yes, I saw it. But you're aware, I presume, that the law would not enforce the payment of that check in case you lost your wager and I attempted to collect.
"I am am staggered, Plum." "Why?" "This doesn't look like a lake, does it?" "Sure not, Jack." "Well, the last time I was here it was a boiling, writhing lake, and that mound you see yonder was an island in the middle." "Gosh all hemlock, Jack! Yeou don't mean it!" "I assuredly do." "There ain't a drop o' water around here neow!" "I know it and that is what puzzles me."
"No more'n yeou air!" replied the other, brushing back his long blonde hair from his forehead as he spoke, and looking straight into our hero's countenance with a pair of deep blue eyes. Then, when the two had stared upon each other for fully a minute, both burst into a fit of laughter. "Shoo neow!" exclaimed the Yankee boy, "who air yeou and what air yeou doing here?"
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