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Updated: June 14, 2025
One thing was sure; Pa Gabe's agreement wa'n't hid about the persons of that football team. Everybody laughed that is, all but the old man and the detective. Seemed to me that Snow was kind of disappointed, and I couldn't see why. 'Twa'n't likely any of THEM was thieves. "Cap'n Parker picked up his football and started off for the launch.
Passing a clump of pines at the next curve, he pulled a bottle from his pocket. "Uncle Gabe's about right, I reckon," he said, half aloud; and he raised it above his head to hurl it away, but checked it in mid-air.
From them his gaze fell to Wolf's Head and to the cabin beneath, and a name passed his lips in a whisper. Then he took the path to the river, and he found the canoe where old Gabe had hidden it. Before the young moon rose he pushed into the stream and drifted with the current. At the mouth of the creek that ran over old Gabe's water-wheel he turned the prow to the Lewallen shore. "Not yit!
Yes, I recollect Gabe hyeh lost a canoe jus' atter a flood more'n a year ago, when Rome Stetson 'n' Marthy Lewallen went a-gallivantin' out' n the mountains together. Hyeh's another flood, 'n' old Gabe's dugout gone agin." The miller raised a covert glance of suspicion from under his hat, but the Marcum was laughing. "Ye oughter put a trace-chain on this un," he added.
Their eyes came near meeting, and she turned quite away. "Ever seed a body out'n his head?" The girl's eyes rounded with a start of surprise. "Well, it's plumb cur'us. Isom's been that way lately. Isom's sick, ye know. Uncle Gabe's got the rheumatiz, 'n' Isom's mighty fond o' Uncle Gabe, 'n' the boy pestered me till I come down to he'p him.
Sergeant Smith was the star of the stable and the principal money winner, when it suited Pitkin to let him run for the money, while General Duval, as like his half brother as a reflection in a flawless mirror, had a string of defeats to his discredit and his feed bill was breaking old Gabe's heart. The trainer often looked at General Duval and shook his head.
Busy as Si had been, he had kept constantly in mind the possibility of Gabe's attempting some mischief, and did not let himself lose sight of the rebel's gun. He quickly rose, and with a few strides, placed himself between Gabe and his gun. "Where are you goin'?" he said sternly. "I'm a-gwine away," replied the man, in terror-stricken accents. "I'm a-gwine away mouty quick.
I saw you kick the goal that beat Haleton. Your reputation is worldwide. "Willie Fred Bearse, that is shook his head, sad and regretful. "'Thank you, Mr. Sterzer, says he, in his gentle tenor. 'I have no desire to be famous in athletics. My aspirations now are entirely literary. "Well, he's got his literary job at last, bein' engaged as sportin' editor on one of Gabe's papers.
"Yes," replied Dolan, "it come to me from one of the nigger prisoners in the jail, who has a friend who sweeps out Gabe's bank, that he heard John and Lige dickering, and that Lige held John up for a hundred thousand cold dollars for his bargain."
That was Isom, a pale little fellow whom Rome had left in old Gabe's care; and he, though a Stetson and a half-brother to Rome, was not counted, because he was only a boy and a foundling, and because his ways were queer. There was no open rupture, no organized division that might happen no more. The mischief was individual now, and ambushing was more common.
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