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This was to be paid to Yesler in the presence of the other seven members on the night before the election, and was to be held in escrow by him and Roper until the pact was fulfilled, the money to be kept in a safety deposit vault with a key in possession of each of the two.
She was ready to accept the traditional honors of the wild legend worthy of the pen of a Cooper. On returning from our visit to old Angeline, we asked Hon. Henry Yesler, the now rich pioneer, why the princess was not better cared for by the people of the city. He himself had been generous to her. "Why," he said, "if you were to give her fifty dollars, she would give it all away before night!"
"Wait till you've seen her before passing judgment. And after you have you'll apologize if you're a white man for thinking such a thing about her," the miner said hotly. Yesler looked at his friend in amiable surprise. "I don't reckon we need to quarrel about Simon Harley's matrimonial affairs, do we?" he laughed. "Not unless you want to say any harm of that lamb."
Two of my boys are plugging along a mile or two behind us, but he stayed right with the game to a finish and him seventy-three, mind you, and a New Yorker at that. The old boy rides like he was born in a saddle," said Sam Yesler with enthusiasm. "I never said he was a quitter," conceded Ridgway ungraciously. "You're right he ain't. And say, but he's fond of his wife.
It's only a scratch." "I don't like to think how much worse it might have been." "Then don't think of it. Tell Waring I'll be down presently." He went down-stairs again, and Miss Balfour returned to the room. "Was that Mr. Yesler?" quietly asked a voice from the bed. "Yes, dear. He has gone back to the hotel. He asked about you, of course." "He is very kind."
For both husband and wife fell grave at his words. It was Pelton that answered them. "I've been taught a lesson, Mr. Yesler. I'm never going to pack a gun again as long as I live, unless I'm hunting or something of that sort, and I'm never going to drink another drop of liquor. It's all right for some men, but it isn't right for me." "Glad to hear it. I never did believe in the hip-pocket habit.
The big man had lost all his pomposity, and was comforting his sweetheart as simply as a boy. "It's all been my fault. I've been doing wrong for years trying to pull myself out of the mire by my bootstraps. By Gad, you're a man, Sam Yesler, that's what you are. If I don't turn ovah a new leaf I'd ought to be shot. We'll make a fresh start, sweetheart. Dash me, I'm nothing but a dashed baby."
You all know how things have been going; how men have been moving in and out and buying men here like as if they were cattle on the hoof. You've seen it, and I've seen it. But we didn't have the nerve to say it should stop. One man did. He's the biggest man in this big State to-day, and it ain't been five minutes since I heard you hollar your lungs out cursing him. You know who I mean Sam Yesler."
Three of them, at least, were brooding over what the morning had brought forth, and trying to realize what it might mean for them. "We'd best be going, I expect," said Yesler at last. "We've got a right heavy bit of work cut out for us, and the horses are through feeding. We can't get started any too soon for me." Ridgway nodded silently.
"We're also rans, and don't even show for place." Yet though two of them had, temporarily at least, been rescued from imminent danger, and success beyond their expectations had met the others, it was a silent party. A blanket of depression seemed to rest upon it, which the good stories of Yesler and the genial nonsense of his man, Chinn, were unable to lift.
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