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Wild Bill set me to look after Zip's kids, an' he's paid me for it. But but that money burns burns like hell, an' I want to be quit of it. Oh, I ain't bug on no sort o' charity racket, I'm jest about as soft as my back teeth. But I'm mad mad to git busy doin' anythin' so we ken git Zip level with that low-down skunk, James.
His movements were almost cat-like as he came up and peered into Sandy's face. "You'll kep right on diggin' that hole," he said, with an icy threat. "An' come Wednesday you'll quit diggin' an' hit the trail on Zip's track you an' Sunny an' Toby an' you'll sure see no harm comes to him. But he ain't to see you, nor to know you're chasin' him.
At any rate, the horrible faces Peter-Kins made at Zip were enough to drive a boy crazy, much less a little dog with Zip's snappy disposition, and he barked back, "Just you wait until I get hold of you again, and I'll not only snip a piece off your tail, but I'll bite the whole tail right off!" At this Peter-Kins ran his tongue out at Zip.
At that moment Bill turned from his contemplation of the house beyond the dumps and fixed his fierce eyes on Sunny's grinning face. "Here, you miser'ble hoboe," he cried, "get right up out of that, and hump across to Zip's shack. You're doin' enough gassin' fer a female tattin' bee. Your hot air makes me want to sweat. Now, them kiddies'll need supper.
The men helped themselves, and with a simultaneous "How!" gulped their drinks down thirstily. Minky re-corked the bottle and wiped a few drops of water from the counter. "So Zip's around," he said, as the glasses were returned to the counter. And instantly Sunny's face became unusually serious. "Say," he cried, with a hard look in his good-natured eyes. "D'you ever feel real mad about things?
Now you see why it is that God had put it into Zip's loving heart to "want to come with his little sister." Abner, who arrived a few minutes later, in order to cut some young birches for his fence, said, "Wasn't it lucky, that that dog happened to be right on the spot? And lucky, too, that I happened along in the nick of time, to carry the poor little girl home in my arms?"
But I tell you Zip's a man, an' a great big man to the marrer of his small backbone. His luck's rotten. Rotten every ways. He's stuck on his wife, an' she's gone off with a tough like James. He works so he comes nigh shamin' even me, who hates work, on a claim that couldn't show the color o' gold on it, if ther' wa'an't nothin' to the earth but gold. He's jest got two notions in his silly head.
"Don't guess Zip's claim amounts to pea-shucks neither," the storekeeper went on, his mind leaning towards the financial side of the matter. "No." "Them kids'll cost money, too." Bill nodded, but no one could have detected any interest in his movement. "How'd it be to get that claim worked for him while he's away?" Bill shrugged. "Mebbe Zip'll be gettin' back," he said. "An' if he don't."
He goes after him to claim his right, as calm an' foolish as a sheep in a butcherin' yard. An' I'd say right here ther' ain't one of us in this store would have had the grit chasin' for his wife wher' Zip's bin chasin' " "Not for a wife, sure," interjected Sandy. Toby smothered a laugh, but became serious under Sunny's contemptuous eye. "That's like you, Sandy," he cried. "It's sure like you.
Again his encounter with the monkey had been unsatisfactory, and as for what poor Miss Belinda thought when she saw the mess in her nice clean kitchen it is beyond words to tell. About a week after Zip's last visit to Miss Belinda's, he was out on one of his midnight prowls, about which the doctor had scolded him time and time again.
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