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And Sol Blugg pointed unsteadily at Phil and Roger. "I know how it is," he went on, ramblingly. "You went there in place o' Abe queered the hull thing fer us, you did! I know! You're in with Abe, an' Abe's in with you! Thought you'd do us out o' our little game, eh? Say, Larry!" he called to the man on the sidewalk. "Look at these three fellers same ones was on the train last night.
The others followed. The carriage had made a quick turn and was now almost upon them. Ned put on full speed, and was soon out on the open road. "What's the answer?" asked Tom, who could not make out what all the fuss was about. "Did you see Abe's face?" asked Nat as they once more felt that it was safe to exchange remarks. "Almost went white," replied Ned.
She herself had never believed in buttering bread when there was "sass" to eat with it; but Abe's extravagant tastes had always carried him to the point of desiring both butter and sauce as a relish to his loaf. "Naow, fur 's I'm concerned," pursued Abe, "I hain't got nothin' agin the poorhouse fer neither man ner woman.
It was further arranged that Abe's share of the copartnership work should be the selling end and that Morris should take charge of the manufacturing. Both partners supervised the accounting and credit department with the competent assistance of Miss R. Cohen, who had served the firm of Vesell & Potash in the same capacity.
He grinned as he pictured Abe's dismay on returning to the Station to find him gone. Still, he reflected, maybe Abe would have a better time alone with the young fellows; he had grown so plagued young himself all of a sudden. Samuel surely need not worry about him.
"What do you mean, Uncle Amazon?" gasped the girl, shocked by his words. "This," the master mariner said, with a wide sweep of his arm taking in the cluttered store. "This was Abe's Sargasso Sea and it come nigh to smotherin' him and bearin' him down by the head." "Oh! you mean his life was so confined here?" Cap'n Amazon nodded, "I wonder he bore it so long."
"I knew that in Abe's vocabulary for that night at least a `varmint' meant a 'coon; and as we dashed through the brushwood, following the dog, I felt all the excitement of a 'coon-chase. "It was not a long one I should think of about five minutes' duration; at the end of which time the yelp of the dog which had hitherto guided us, changed into a regular and continuous harking.
And a grit fish has cotched it. Abe's bin divn' and divn' and can't find it nohow. He reckons it's plumb Ain't he a bad 'un, Mammy Linkhorn?" It was some time before the dying woman understood. Then she began feebly to cry. For the moment her ring loomed large in her eyes: it was the earnest of the promise, and without it the promise might fail.
Abe gave the word: "Now!" The two white men drove their spurs deep into their horses' flanks, throwing themselves forward in their saddles with the same motion. With mad plunges the animals leaped toward the highwaymen. Even as he spoke Abe's gun had cracked thrice in quick succession the Mexicans firing at about the same instant.
He threw a hand upward in a surprised gesture, still clinging to the steering oar with his other hand, and shrieked aloud: "The Curlew! By mighty! who'd ha' thought it? 'Tis the Curlew." He, too, knew of Cap'n Abe's supposed voyage on the seaweed ship. The oarsmen read the word upon the skipper's lips rather than heard his voice.
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