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Updated: June 23, 2025
They were too far away from earth to feel it real just now, though it was part of the happiness of things like the sunshine and the soft wind and the look in Tom's eyes, when, amid hand-shakes and congratulations, and welcoming laughter, he himself laughed back in his old way. "Ye look jest like ye used ter, Tom jest like ye used ter," cried Jake Doty. "Ye hain't changed a durned bit!"
I don't want to git sent up fer ten years." "No," said Creede coolly, "ner you never will." "Well, I don't see what you're pickin' on me fer," bellowed Lightfoot, "the other fellers was there too. Why don't you sass Ensign or Pete a while?" "For a durned good reason," replied Creede steadily.
I'd sooner a durned sight be thar than haar if it comed on to blow!" "Patience, my friend!" replied Mr Meldrum. "Don't you recollect that old French proverb, `Everything comes to him who waits!" "Don't reckon I dew, mister," answered the other. "I guess, though, it warn't a waiter at one of them hotels that said that, hey?"
An' I'll see that he don't find nothin' bigger'n turkey too; less'n he's too durned inquisitive; then I'll be ." He finished with an evil grin. "You all tell Cap I've done gone ter hunt with Mistah Whitley ef I don't show up." And beating his mule's ribs vigorously with his heels, he jogged away down the road, while his companion turned and rode back up the little valley.
They no longer floated detached in space, but belonged definitely to human beings. "It ain't our fault if you're stove up some, pardner. You're too durned anxious to whip yore weight in wildcats," one of the men grinned. "Right you are, Tom. He shore hits like a kicking mule," chimed in a third, nursing a cheek that had been cut open to the bone.
"Wal, no, stranger, but I wants to git some money changed, and I'll be durned if I can diskiver a bank in this yar village." "Bin sellin' niggers, eh?" "You're out thar," replied the planter. "I've bin sellin' cotton." "I'm jist the man to help yer! I'm gwine to my bank. Gin me yer money, and come along with me and I'll change it for yer!"
"Durned if youse ain't der liveliest kid I ever seen!" muttered the astonished ruffian. "Youse kin fight!" "Well, I can fight enough to take care of myself," returned the lad, with something like a laugh. Smack! smack! smash! Three blows in rapid succession caused the ruffian to reel and gasp. Then for a few moments the fight was savage and swift. It did not last long.
His smoking revolver was raised aloft and, as his horse charged into that of the wounded chief, it fell crashing on to the befeathered head, and the man went down like a log. "You gol durned black heathen!" Seth cried. Then his rage died out before the greater emergency. "Ride, Rosebud! The woods, and turn left. Ride like hell!" It was all he had time for.
"You're a durned scoundrel anyway." But Jim Crow was quite unabashed. "See, it this," he said, and for the moment his face had ceased to grin. "I see much. I learn much. See." He waved an arm, comprehensively taking in the whole countryside. "White men all dead all kill. Beacon it gone. Fort it gone. Farm all gone. So. Miles an' miles. They all kill. Soldiers, come by south. They, too, all kill.
When he saw who his visitor was there was very little friendliness in his greeting. "Wot in hell you want rushin' that way?" he demanded arrogantly. "Guess your thirst ain't on a time limit." But the ginger-headed youth ignored his ill-temper. He was too full of his own affairs. He simply grinned. "Fish out them durned scales o' yours," he cried gleefully.
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