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"Well, come to the end of the jetty," he ses. "I've got something private to say." I got up slow-like and followed 'im. I wasn't a bit curious. Not a bit. But if a man asks for my 'elp I always give it. "It's like this," he ses, looking round careful, "only I don't want the other chaps to hear because I don't want to be laughed at. Last week an old uncle o' mine died and left me thirty pounds.
The only thing I want is another gun. If it railly comes to trouble, six cartridges ain't many, and you know I am slow-like about reloading." McLean reached into his hip pocket and handed a shining big revolver to Freckles, who slipped it beside the one already in his belt. Then the Boss sat brooding.
I got to thinkin' 'bout it, days when I was sailin', and wondering if mebbe the Lord wa'n't gettin' folks ready jest the way he did the rocks rollin' 'em over and havin' 'em pound each other and claw and fight and cool off, slow-like, till byme-by they'd be good sweet earth and grass and little flowers comf'tabul to live with." The artist sat up.
Goodman took the five pounds off of old Sam and stowed 'em away very careful in the match-box. "It's nice to 'ave money agin," he ses. "There's enough for a week's enjoyment here." "Yes," ses Sam, slow-like; "but wot I want to know is, wot about the day arter to-morrow, when Peter expects 'is money?" Mr. Goodman patted 'im on the shoulder. "Don't you worry about Peter's troubles," he ses.
I meant to tell him what my opinion was of him and of his doings; for there was carryings-on that I didn't approve of, and it's my belief that in those very carryings-on lies the key of the mystery. I've thought it all out in prison, slow-like at nights when I lay in bed, and days when I was hewing stone. I won't tell you the story, my pretty; it ain't fit for the likes of you.
Before the house was an open spot where the moon shone full and clear, where Robert J. walked up and down, about two feet off the ground, waving his arms slow-like and making the melancholiest groans. Now I have been to Uncle Tom's Cabin frequent, but in all my life I never see such acting. Yet what was the consequences? Up went the window above, and the Rev. Mr.
"Because o' the surprise it'll be to 'im," ses Miss Tucker. "Let 'im rush on to 'is doom. He'll get a lesson 'e don't expect, the bully. Don't be afraid of 'urting 'im. Think o' pore Smith and Charlie Webb." "I am thinkin' of 'em," ses Ginger, slow-like. "Is is Bill very quick with his 'ands?" "Rather," ses Miss Tucker; "but o' course he ain't up to your mark; he's on'y known in these parts."
"He stopped and stared at me a minute, or ten minutes I didn't count time on him and then he said, slow-like: "'It's the spring west that is poisoned. I put it there for you. You will not see your men again. They will drink and die. Who put this poison here? "'Lord knows. I didn't, I told him. 'Two of you carrying poison are two too many for the Cimarron country.
'Hold up, Marthy, says I; 'set right where you air; I'll open the gate fer you, and I'll do anything else fer you in the world 'at you want me to! " 'W'y, what's pleased YOU so? she says, laughin', as she druv through slow-like and a-ticklin' my nose with the cracker of the buggy-whip. 'What's pleased YOU? " 'Guess, says I, jerkin' the gate to, and turnin' to lift her out.
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