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Harcourt met his look with a dull, ox-like stolidity. "I shall begin the suit at once," he said. "And I," said Grant, holding out his hand, "will stand by you. But tell me now what you knew of this man Curtis, his character and disposition; it may be some clue as to what are his methods and his intentions." Harcourt briefly sketched 'Lige Curtis as he knew him and understood him.
It was not long before Elizabeth and Tom came out again and entered a thick little bush behind the shanty. Lige lifted the axe off the woodpile with a knowing look, and we all three followed silently. I was surprised to find it a well beaten and equally well concealed trail. All my suspicions returned.
Alarmed, the boys needed no further incentive to spur them to instant action. Grasping fagots from the fire, they lined up, standing with anxious faces, awaiting the direction of Lige Thomas, to whom they instinctively looked to command the searching party. "Wait a minute," commanded Lige in a calm voice. "Which way did you see him go, Professor?" "Let me reflect. I am not sure yes, I am.
However, the mountaineer's tough coating of muscle made such a result impossible. Yet he had sustained a jolt so severe that, for the time being, he found himself absolutely helpless, and wholly at the mercy of his antagonists. Lige leaped upon the thief with the lightness of a cat, quickly completing the job which Ned Rector had begun.
"They have to be or break their necks," replied Walter. "Or ours," added Ned Rector. "I don't see any wild beasts, but I feel hungry," declared Stacy. "My stomach tells me it's time for the 'chuck wagon, as Lige Thomas calls it, to drive up." "Tighten your belt tighten your belt," jeered Ned. "Cheer up! You'll be hungrier bye-and-bye."
He did not set the dish down when she put it in his hand, but held it straight out before him, just looking at it, until Mr. Willetts had a dangerous choking fit, for which Minnie was very proud of Lige; no one could have suspected that it was the veil of laughter.
As the Juanita drew near, Virginia saw the square figure and clean, smooth-shaven face of Captain Lige standing in front of his wheel-house Peace crept back into her soul, and she tingled with joy as the bells clanged and the bucket-planks churned, and the great New Orleans packet crept slowly to the Barbara's side. "You ain't goin' in, Brent?" shouted the Barbara's captain.
What's this?" demanded the Professor in puzzled accents. "A man tied to a horse? What is the meaning of this, sir?" Lige Thomas smiled grimly. "That's our prisoner," declared Tad, who, sitting upon his horse in his bedraggled, torn pajamas, presented a most ludicrous figure. "You certainly are a sight, sir," declared Professor Zepplin, surveying the boy with disapproving eyes.
In fact if it came to that, if 'Lige had really contemplated killing himself as a hopeless bankrupt after taking Harkutt's money as a loan, it was a swindle on his Harkutt's good-nature. He worked himself into a rage, which he felt was innately virtuous, at this tyranny of cold principle over his own warm-hearted instincts, but if it came to the LAW, he'd stand by law and not sentiment.
Well, now, considering what had happened, he didn't mind telling them that he had been gradually getting possession of it, little by little, paying 'Lige Curtis in advances and installments, until it was his own! They had heard what those surveyors said; how that it was the only fit terminus for the railroad.
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