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Lusk addicted to opium. "I don't guess I'll leave my card on 'em," said McLean, grimly, "if I strike Laramie." "You don't mind my saying I think you're well out of that scrape?" Barker ventured. "Shucks, no! That's all right, Doc. Only yu' see now. A man gets tired pretending onced in a while." Time had gone while they were in talk, and it was now half after one and Mr.
"My hopes ain't so glossy any more," he answered. "Lin has done better this second trip." "Mrs. Lusk don't count," said I. "I reckon she counted mighty plentiful when he thought he'd got her clamped to him by lawful marriage. But Lin's lucky." And the Virginian fell silent again. Lucky Lin bestirred him over his work, his plans, his ranch on Box Elder that was one day to be a home for his lady.
Ourselves and the cart marched up Hill Street or Capitol Avenue, as it has become named since Cheyenne has grown fuller of pomp and emptier of prosperity and I thought we made an unusual procession: the Governor's secretary, unofficially leading the way to the barn; the cart, and the rain-maker beside it, guarding his packed-up mysteries; McLean and Lusk, walking together in unconscious bigamy; and in the rear, Odgen nudging me in the ribs.
McLean walked down Box Elder Creek through the trees toward the stable, where Lusk had gone to put the horse in the wagon. Once he leaned his hand against a big cotton-wood, and stood still with half-closed eyes. Then he continued on his way. "Lusk!" he called, presently, and in a few steps more, "Lusk!"
Henry's remarks made a deep and profound impression upon Colonel Lusk. He informed Henry that no step he could take was more painful to him than this. He assured Henry that this act on his part was from necessity and not from choice. "The statement you have made, Henry, that party affiliations with me is optional," he answered, "is presumed to be true; but, in point of fact, it is not.
Still shouting her to wake, he struck a tottering sort of step, and so, with the bending load in his grip, strove feebly to dance the laudanum away. Feet stumbled across the porch, and Lusk was in the room. "So I've got you!" he said. He had no weapon, but made a dive under the bed and came up with a carbine. The two men locked, wrenching impotently, and fell together.
Bodinier and Lusk report instances of the delivery of an extrauterine fetus by the vagina; and Mathieson relates the history of the delivery of a living ectopic child by the vagina, with recovery of the mother. Gordon speaks of a curious case in a negress, six months pregnant, in which an extrauterine fetus passed down from the posterior culdesac and occluded the uterus.
Nay truly, for thou slewest him unhappily and cowardly; therefore turn again, bawdy kitchen page, I know thee well, for Sir Kay named thee Beaumains. What art thou but a lusk and a turner of broaches and a ladle-washer?
Then came the gritting of heels on the hardpacked trail and Overland Red stood in the doorway. "Mornin', gents and Saunders," he said, glancing at the figure seated back toward him. "Hello, Red!" exclaimed Joe Kennedy. "Out early, ain't you. Have a drink." "Not out too early. Hello, Lusk!" "How, Red," said the saloon-keeper. "Where's your friends. Ask 'em in," said Kennedy.
Lin walked beside her, but it might as well have been behind, and his bearing was so different from his wonted happy-go-luckiness that I had a mind to take off my hat and say, "Good-morning, Mrs. Lusk." But it was "Mrs. McLean" I said, of course.
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