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"Indeed." One fact the detective noted, the room had no window, and was evidently entirely within the building. Not a sound from without, or from the barroom penetrated the place. Jounce locked the door, an unnecessary precaution, the detective thought, and threw himself into one of the chairs. "Sit down, pardner. We kin confab here without bein' disturbed, you bet yer buttons."
A hand touched his face, and a man's visage peered into his. Instantly the hand of Barkswell sought his hip. "Don't draw, brother, it's only me." Barkswell stared in a startled way into the face of the new-comer. It was indeed Perry Jounce, but he had changed so in the past four and twenty hours as to seem like another man.
She liked these rosy children at once, and the fresh, sunlit air that had painted their cheeks. "Oh, it's pretty enough," returned Ernest, turning back and clucking to the horse. Gladys enjoyed Faith's pleasure. She would not try to show off Vera's supreme accomplishment in this rattlety-banging wagon. How it did jounce over occasional stones in the country road!
Getting to his feet, he sought to regain the fence; but the fall had shaken his senses and he floundered off in the opposite direction. After a rod or two of such futile plunging, a stumbling step took him clean off the edge of the world, and into the air. All this, for the merest instant. Then, he landed with a jounce in a heap of brush and dead leaves.
Johnny Simms did not jounce up and down on the diving board to start. He simply leaped upward, and went ceilingward for easily fifteen feet, and hung stationary for a full breath, and then began to descend in literal slow motion.
He buried her little hand in his big brown paw, a friendly smile beaming through the disfigurements of his bruised face. "He didn't do a thing to you, did he?" she commented, looking him over frankly. "Not a thing except run me through a sausage-grinder, drop me out of one of these aeroplanes, hammer my haid with a pile-driver, and jounce me up and down on a big pile of sharp rocks.
It is a common saying in the Northwest that it takes eight years to make a good Mounted Policeman eight years to jounce the duffer out and the man in; but in the Forest Service, men over forty-five are not taken. For men who serve up to forty-five, the inducements of salary beginning at $65 a month and seldom exceeding $200 are not sufficient to retain tested veterans.
She did not seem to think much of it, but the farmer laughed until his tanned face was red as an Indian's. His wife insisted on me putting down the jar, and offered to set her foot on it so that it would not `jounce' much, but I did not propose to risk it 'jouncing' at all, and clung to it persistently.
He saw him procure a key from Billy Bowlegs, and whisper something in his ear. Then he came swiftly back to his room beyond the screen. "I'll find a quiet place whar we won't be disturbed, pardner," uttered Perry Jounce, at the same time leading the way to a small screen that seemed to be tucked back in the corner to be out of the way. Turning this, a narrow door was revealed.
If I let yo' up, will yo' swar to quite down peaceable as a lamb, an' make the rest do the same?" "Never," asserted Hackberry. "I'm ergwine to have it out with that Yank." "No you haint," she replied with a still more emphatic jounce that made Hackberry use all the breath left him to groan. "I'll quit," he said, with his next instalment of atmosphere.
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