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"I couldn't get the cover off," the Kid explained, "'theut I busted it, and then it would all spill like the jelly. Gee I-I wish I had a beefsteak under my belt!" Miss Allen leaned over with her elbows on the bank and laughed and laughed. Miss Allen was closer to hysterics than she had ever been in her life.
"Y-you sure l-l-look all right, little g-girl," he admitted, slowly, "but I 've h-heard th-th-that feller was hell with w-women. I-I reckon you b-better go b-back to Farnham an' find out." He paused, wiping his perspiring face with the back of his hand, his cheeks reddening painfully under her unfaltering gaze. Finally he blurted out: "Say, w-who are you, anyhow?" "Beth Norvell, an actress."
In a word he had been driven about from office to office for five months and had spent every farthing he had; his wife's last rags had just been pawned; and meanwhile a child had been born to them and and today I have a final refusal to my petition, and I have hardly a crumb of bread left I have nothing left; my wife has had a baby lately and I-I "He sprang up from his chair and turned away.
There are no such things as ghosts." "It cer-certainly looks like a-a ghost!" faltered Cuffer. "It is a ghost!" said Tad, his teeth beginning to chatter. "I-I ca-can hear it gro-groan! Come on ba-ba-back!" And he began to retreat. "Back with you!" came in solemn tones. "Back with you!" "No white man must come here," said a second voice. "This is sacred ground!"
What's the matter with you, anyhow?" Skinner cast a suspicious glance at his companion. "I-I guess I'm rattled it's all so sudden." "Of course you'll have to run, fast enough so we don't tip off." "How fast is that?" "Oh, ten-four," carelessly. "That's what Humpy and I did." "Ten and four-fifths-seconds?" "Certainly. Don't kid me! They're liable to break in on us."
"It is shameful though what does it matter to me if it is shameful? "Gentlemen, gentlemen! I am about to break the seal," he continued, with determination. "I-I of course I don't insist upon anyone listening if they do not wish to." With trembling fingers he broke the seal and drew out several sheets of paper, smoothed them out before him, and began sorting them.
"Y-you sh-sh-shut up, B-Bill," and the huge form of Stutter Brown loomed up directly between them, and that menacing rifle. "I-I reckon as how I'll t-t-take a h-hand in this yere g-g-game. Sh-she ain't no s-spy fer Farnham, er I 'm a l-l-liar." He touched her softly with his great hand, bending down to look into her face, half hidden beneath the ruffled black hair.
"I-I " he stammered "I have hunted hunted you all through Spain." This was the truth, for Brooke had been faithful to Dolores until he had met with Talbot. Dolores was conscience-smitten by this proof of her former lover's fidelity. She hastened to excuse herself somehow. "I I " she said, with an embarrassment equal to that of Brooke "I thought you were in America." "No; I was in Cuba."
"I-I love you, dearest," said Osborn in a tremulous voice. "You g-go out, and every d-day it's the same for me. All day I'm alone; and I loathe the work. Everything's always the same." "I wish I could give you a change, sweetheart," said Osborn, terribly harassed. She hated herself because she could not be generous, but somehow she could find no generous words to speak.
"Indeed,-I don't know." "Not know!-But do you return to the Mirvans any more?" "I-I can't tell, Sir." And then I addressed myself to Madame Duval, with such a pretended earnestness, that he was obliged to be silent.
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