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"She air lovin' ye, ye said?" interrupted Tess, huskily. "But I don't love her, Tess!... I love only you!... You know that, sweetheart!... You hear me, darling?" "Yep, I hear," whispered the girl. Frederick settled back against the rocks, drawing her into his arms. "My father," he proceeded more calmly, "left us without any money. I suppose I didn't realize how hard it's been for mother.
But please tell me how?" "Why," says I, draggy, "I er you see " And then I'm struck with this foolish idea. Honest, I couldn't help pullin' it. "Mr. Ellins," I goes on, "happened to show me your picture." "What!" says she. "My picture? I I can hardly believe it." "Wait," says I. "It's right here in the drawer. That is, it was. Yep! This one. There!"
She perched herself on his lap and asked him what was worrying him. "Nothing much, honey," he groaned, "except that I've lost my job." Kedzie was thunderstruck. She breathed the expletive she learned from her latest companions. "My Gawd!" Gilfoyle nodded dreadfully: "Business has been bad, anyway. Kalteyer, with his chewing-gum, was about our only big customer, and now he's gone bust. Yep.
She wanted me to think it was her and not Mrs. Hasson that was interferin'. But I was cold all through, and turned to stone like. My eyes felt hard and tight like buttons, and I laughed Yep, I really laughed, and said to ma 'All right, ma.
Tess noticed with fascination that one corner of his mouth curled up as if smiling, while the other was rigidly drawn down. She'd never seen an expression just like that before. "Yep," she murmured, dropping her lids. "Where are you going?" asked the man, tersely. Tess glanced about. She wanted to turn and run, anywhere to escape from the brilliant dark eyes and the unmatched lips.
The party had not left the road a hundred yards behind when a man jogged past on his way into the valley. He did not see them, nor did they see him. Underneath a rather scrubby cedar Dave drew up. He glanced it over critically. "Think it'll do?" he asked Crawford in a voice the prisoner could just hear. "Yep. That big limb'll hold him," the old cattleman answered in the same low voice.
They got to come closter than that or that skirt won't meet on me by an inch and to think twenty-fours was loose on me onct! Wait a minute!" A startled look came in Mrs. Terriberry's bulging eyes. "I thought I felt somethin' give inside of me don't take much to cave a rib in sometimes." "More?" "Yep; these things have gotta meet if I have to hitch the 'bus team onto 'em."
Athelstone? Sure; he'd called a cab for her about an hour ago and she'd driven off with her brother. "Her brother!" echoed Simpkins. "Yep," yawned the watchman; "you know him parson Doctor Brander. What's up?" "Nothing," Simpkins returned sourly, but to himself he added, "Oh, hell!"
Feed good on the hills yet?" "Pretty good." "I hear you got company up to the Moonstone." "Yep. Eastern folks, doctor and his wife." And Collie looked the deputy hard in the eye. "Oh, that was their machine I heard coughin' up the cañon last night, eh?" "I didn't ask them about that," replied Collie. "You're improvin' since you first come into these hills," said Tenlow, with some sarcasm.
Hearn them horses rattling their chains, must ha' been for an hour." "That's stretching it some," laughed Tom. "That tree hasn't been toppled over an hour." "Huh! Ye can't tell me nothin' 'beout that!" declared Toby. "I was right here when it happened." "Goodness!" gasped Nan. "Yep. And lemme tell ye, I only jest 'scaped being knocked down when she fell." "My!" murmured Nan again.
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