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On the way they told him a good deal of Dan Higgins and Meggy, and Allen listened with sympathetic interest. "That surely is tough," he said boyishly. "But of course his case is no different from that of hundreds of others who have come out here to 'God's Country' in the hope of beating the daily grind and jumping to fortune at one fell swoop.
They saw empires and civilizations crumbling before their eyes, all those certainties upon which their lives had been built vanishing as a mist at sunrise. Hitherto, Jimmie Higgins had always refused to take a daily paper. No capitalist lies for him; he would save his pennies for the Socialist weeklies!
They shook hands, and Anderson disappeared. Chrisfield heard Sergeant Higgins call after him. "I guess the next time I see you I'll have to put my heels together an' salute." Andersen's booming laugh faded as he walked away.
A clerk's work was certainly genteel; but even that would be lowering to the hero. She glanced at him again, swiftly. No, he was too beautiful to be penned up in an office from nine to six-thirty every day of his life. On the other hand her feminine intuition appreciated keenly the withering criticism of Higgins.
So he dashed off in the direction of the ranch and the girls wheeled and galloped back in the direction they had come back toward Dan Higgins' mine to warn him to stake a new claim before others reached the spot.
It was the Seminole system by which these Indians had survived in their unhealthy environment. "She may not look so bad when we go over her carefully," added Higgins. "Thanks," said Payne. "Optimism is good medicine to sleep on. I'm stung, of course. The Prairie Highlands Company sold this stuff to me as virgin prairie sod ready for the plow.
And in each of these places there was a show-card in the window, with a picture of the Candidate, and the announcement that on Sunday evening, at eight o'clock, he would speak at the Leesville Opera-house on "War, the Reason and the Remedy". Jimmie Higgins looked at the cards, and a dignified yet joyful pride stirred in his bosom; for all of them were there because he, Jimmie, had interviewed the proprietors and obtained their more or less reluctant consent.
He was on the watch, and that shows there must be something queer about him." "Let's take a look through the other rooms," suggested Larry. Showing his light Higgins led the way. They went through several other bare and deserted chambers, but saw no indications that the stranger had been in them.
Even with his own accustomed and skilled workpeople, he would have had some difficulty in fulfilling his engagements; as it was, the incompetence of the Irish hands, who had to be trained to their work, at a time requiring unusual activity, was a daily annoyance. It was not a favourable hour for Higgins to make his request. But he had promised Margaret to do it at any cost.
And before we had been in the river ten minutes we were startled by a huge black bulk breaking water close alongside the boat, which turned out to be a hippopotamus. "Now, Higgins," said I, "whereabout is this creek of yours? I see no sign of it thus far." "Oh, it's some way on ahead yet, sir!" answered the man. "Keep her straight up through the deep-water, sir, please.
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