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When their combined efforts had finally pried the two men apart she turned witheringly upon Douglass and lashed him with her scorn. "A fine boss yuh be to let these coyotes tear each other to pieces! Ef yuh cain't manage men any bettah than thet yuh bettah take yuh lettle pen an' write potery fer a livin'. Maybe yuh'd git yuh name in thu papehs that way!"
"No use denyin' it, mistah, 'case yuh'd see our shack wen yuh git thar, anyways," he muttered. "And you've been thinking we'd come up here to beat you out in the game is that it?" Max continued. Another vigorous nod, and a gloomy look answered him. "Well, that's where you're away off, Jim," Max went on.
A party of American bluejackets gun crews were at another table. They heard us speak English, whereat one of them called over: "Say, you guys comprong English? Wee, wee? Then you oughter been where we were yesterday. Yuh'd seen something. Fighting U-boats we were. Comprong? U-boats wee, wee, U-boats. Thirty-six of 'em came after us an' we sunk twelve. Whaddyer know about that?"
"And say! yuh'd best keep your gun strapped on yuh, whilst you're down here," he told Weary, with some earnestness. "Spikes Weber is in this country come just after yuh left; fact is, he's got it into his block that you left because he come. Brought his wife along say!
A grinning desperado disarmed Lefty and Red and picked up The Kid's two Colts. "It'd 'a' been better fer yuh if yuh'd shot it out," sneered Blacksnake, "because Gentleman John will have somethin' in store fer yuh that yuh won't like. Wait till he sets eyes on yuh, Cotton-picker! Boilin' alive will seem like a picnic!
"I'm goin' to try and pick Hardy out o' that gang o' killers, and if I do, I don't care much then what happens." The prisoners had been herded within the corral, and their feet were lashed together. "Yuh'll soon be listenin' to bullets," Caldwell told them. "Yuh'd better pray that yore pals shoot straight and don't hit you by mistake." The Hardy gang had seen them!
And here was a man at their feet, calmly telling them that he was about to die, and asking only a hurried burial and a silence after. Happy Jack swallowed painfully and shifted his feet in the grass. "Of course, if yuh'd feel better handing me over " "That'll be about enough on that subject," Pink interrupted with decision.
Jerry's an ill man to cross, I've heard tell. Yuh'd think this lad had had enough. But Jerry's still red-eyed about him and swears they can't both live in the same town. You'll remember likely how Durand did for Paddy Kelly? It was before my time." "Yuh're a chump copper, Tim Muldoon, else yuh'd know we don't talk about that in the open street.
"Come, come, lady, yuh can't stay no longer!" the officer again insisted, tapping her on the shoulder. "Yuh'd oughta been out o' here ten minutes ago! No, nuthin' doin'!" he concluded, as she turned to him appealingly. "Not today! Time's up an' more than up!" Catherine stretched out her hand to Gabriel, in farewell. He took it, silently. "Good-bye!" said she. "Until I come again, good-bye.
"I I wish yuh'd come, Annie," blurted out Tim, looking down his nose. Tears brimmed in Annie's eyes. To Clay it seemed there was something hungry in the look the girl gave Muldoon. She did not want his pity alone. She would not have their hospitality if they were giving it to a girl they despised and wanted to reform.
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