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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Remember what I said," the voice of Checkers came floating back. "Say, Bill, this is a derned outrage," said one of the men outside. "I, fer one, am not in favor of standin' for it." "Well, if yer don't, you'll get the same," said other man. "I never see any one so handy with that bloomin' knife o' his." "Look out you don't get a taste o' it, then." "Is he dead, Bill?"
"I'll bet my ears you'd like to have your ma take her in right here. But I don't see how it c'n be done, Rosie-posie. There's so derned many of us now, an' " "Oh, I didn't mean that, daddy. She couldn't come here. But don't you think Mrs. Jim Holabird would take her in for the winter?" "P'raps. She's a widder. She might let her have Jim's room now that there's a vacancy.
"Them Palmetto boys were mighty keerless after they'd made their big 'strike' and got to work on the vein, and I reckon they threw a lot of gold away," said Cy Parker, who remembered their large-handed recklessness in the "flush days." "On'y that WE didn't think it was white man's work to rake over another man's leavin's, we might hev had what them derned Chinamen hev dropped into.
"Look here," said he, "some one's got to solve this mystery, and I'll risk a leading question. Why did you run away?" "Because of what you have been doing!" "Me been doing! And what have I been doing?" "Suspecting me and setting a detective to watch me!" Ned's one eye opened wide, but for a moment he said not a word. Then he remarked quietly: "This is going to be a derned complicated business.
I can't get her out, and you know derned well Prudence can't stand on her head that a way without strangling. Lend us a hand, boy. This is something awful! Something awful!" Tunis Latham, much disturbed by the old man's words and excited manner, pushed into the dimly lit interior of the barn. The barn was a roomy place, as well built as the Ball house itself, and quite as old.
He became aware of the foul atmosphere in which he had been struggling. He was grimy and dripping like a laborer in a foundry. He grasped his canteen and took a long swallow of the warmed water. A sentence with variations went up and down the line. "Well, we 've helt 'em back. We 've helt 'em back; derned if we haven't." The men said it blissfully, leering at each other with dirty smiles.
I don't say this because I expect to git it; for, when he's got that much of a raise, he'll make a break for 'Frisco, and lose it to some first-class sport THERE. I don't say, neither, that you mayn't be in luck enough to reform him. I don't say, neither and it's a derned sight more likely! that you mayn't be luckier yet, and he'll up and die afore he gits rid of your money.
"Martha," I says, "I'll be honest with you. Fate got away with my half too one day when I didn't know they was crooks like her sticking around." Well, I seen that girl seen through me then. Martha was awful smart sometimes. And each one was so derned tickled the other one wasn't going to do any pining away we like to of fell into love all over agin. But not quite.
"She jest stuck up that derned little nose o' hern an' said: 'I am an American as long as I live." "Hooray!" shouted Alf Reesling, throwing Isaac Porter's new hat into the air. The crowd joined in the cheering. "Did I ever tell you how I knowed all along that it was a man who left Rosalie on the porch?" asked Anderson. "Why, you allus told me it was a woman," said Alf.
As Loo took her seat in the buggy one afternoon he saw that she was nervous and irritable. "The schoolmaster's been goin' for her the derned fool," he said to himself, and at once began to soothe her. The task was not an easy one. She was cold to him at first and even spiteful; she laughed at what he said and promised, and made fun of his pretensions. His kindly temper stood him in good stead.
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