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Scarcely had he done so when heavy steps, with accompaniment of clinking spurs, passed through the door below into the cabin. "Wal, Beasley, are you here?" queried a loud voice. There was no reply. The man below growled under his breath, and again the spurs jingled. "Fellars, Beasley ain't here yet," he called. "Put the hosses under the shed. We'll wait." "Wait, huh!" came a harsh reply.
In the next village a regiment of soldiers have arrived. I have had word that I must receive here ten officers. They come at seven to-night." "But look here madame is very tired," frowned Monte. "I am sorry," answered Soucin helplessly. Monte stepped nearer and jingled the gold in his pocket. "Doubtless the next village in that case is without accommodations also," said Monte.
It seemed to Jack that he moved in a dreary kind of dream that afternoon as he went about with Frank from shop to shop, paying bills. Frank's trouser-pockets bulged and jingled a good deal as they started he had drawn all his remaining money in gold from the bank and they bulged and jingled considerably less as the two returned to tea in Jesus Lane. There, on the table, he spread out the coins.
A room with thin-legged chairs, with cupboards whose lozens gave view to punch-bowls and rummers and silver ladles, a room where the two brothers would convene at night while John was elsewhere, and in a wan candle light sit silent by the hour before cooling spirits, musing on other parlours elsewhere in which spurs had jingled under the board, musing on comrades departed.
"Not even another lovely quarter to be picked up where it got spilled when they made 'em here, p'raps by the bushel," grumbled Bobolink, scratching the earth with his toe in vain. He had recovered the coins from Paul, and jingled them in his pocket; though the envious Bluff warned him that they might get him into a peck of trouble, should he be caught by Secret Service men.
He had a wretched little room close to the pigsties; here he had to stay, but the whole day he sat working, and when evening was come he had made a pretty little pot. All round it were little bells, and when the pot boiled they jingled most beautifully and played the old tune 'Where is Augustus dear? Alas! he's not here, here, here!
The Rinks had been flooded, and skating was going on with vigour; the snow was not quite in a satisfactory state as yet; but a few sleighs jingled merrily about with their bright bits of colour, the edging of fur robes and ribbon on the sleigh bells.
Gracefully the little slave girl eluded the boys; slyly she circumvented their attacks. Her little bare feet twinkled daintily about on the sand; her brass anklets jingled merrily; and the fireflies, confined in her hair, glowed contentedly.
She turned as Sundown jingled up and met him with a murmur of surprise and pleasure. He swung from his horse hat in hand and advanced, bowing. Anita flushed and gazed at the ground. "'Mornin', Señorita! I sure am jest hoppin' glad to see you ag'in. If I'd 'a' knowed you was here . . . But I come on business important. Reckon you're visitin' friends, eh?" "Si, Señor!" "Do you come here reg'lar?"
"I hope when you call again," she said, "that you may find my husband at home. I know he will be glad to see you!" As Burke jingled and pranced away he grinned behind his great fur collar. "She'll call!" said he to himself. "She'll call on the yacht if she doesn't call on anything else!" When the interview with Mrs. Buskirk was reported that afternoon to Mrs. Cliff, the good lady sat aghast.
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