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To-day," and he brought his hand down softly on my shoulder, "to-day, suh, they have cabled their agent the same gentleman, suh, you saw in my office some time ago to make a searchin' investigation into the mineral and agricultural resources of that section of my State, with a view to extendin' its railroad system.
And a precious lucky thing it was that we thought of doin' so, for it's the solemn truth I'm tellin' you, gen'lemen we hadn't very much more'n got settled back on our perches when back comes about a dozen o' them savages, creepin' out from among the trees as quiet as cats, and starts searchin' the whole place up and down as though they'd lost somethin'. My mates and me reckoned it up that them niggers had seen us and counted us some time yesterday, and had found, after the massacree, that we wasn't all accounted for, and so they'd come back to look for us.
Josiah hunched me, he wanted me to cry there, at that place, but I wouldn't. He did, he cried like an infant babe, and I looked close and searchin' to see if my handkerchief covered up all his vest. He didn't seem to take no notice of his clothes at all, he wuz a-weepin' so why, the whole schoolhouse wept, wept like a babe. But I didn't. I see it wuz a eloquent and powerful effort.
But if you'll believe it, I had hardly got the words out of my mouth and Josiah had jest laid holt of the water pail, when in comes Philander Dagget, the President of the Jonesville Creation Searchin' Society and, of course, he had a job for us to do on our tower.
"You blazed it quite enough for me, Rube," Kiddie averred. "I didn't fool around any, searchin' for your dead body at the foot of the cliffs in Lone Wolf Cañon. The sight of the eagles in flight and, afterwards, the signs of Injuns told me all I needed to know.
The conviction that he was looking for her, and that grandmamma would be vexed, overshadowed everything else. She rose, while the magician greeted the lady as Miss Betty, and offered her a cup of tea. "I'se been searchin' high and low for you, Miss Rosalind," Martin exclaimed, coming forward. "I'm dreadfully sorry, Martin; I forgot," said Rosalind.
"Nothing; but John Flett and David Mowat passed our stage yesterday in a canoe, and they told us that the hut of old Liz Rollin has been carried away with her and her father and Winklemann's mother, and they say that her son has been seen in a small canoe rangin' about by himself like a madman searchin' for her."
Bassett, as he turned up the collar of his rough coat and put on his blue mittens, while the old mare shook her bells as if she preferred a trip to Keene to hauling wood all day. "Tilly, put extry comfortables on the beds to-night, the wind is so searchin' up chamber.
Days and days went by, whilst I wuz conductin' this quest through a deserted city, searchin' for sunthin' I couldn't name. Till at last I lay wore out, on a couch, and Josiah wuz bendin' over me. He had a small green hat sot rakishly on one side, a red neck-tie flashed out, a immense cigar wuz in his mouth, out of which streamed a flame of fire.
"Well, all I got to say is that if it was me he left it to, it wouldn't take no searchin' to find me," he said. "Is he married?" "Very likely he is married," said the judge, with that portentous repression and caution behind his words which some people are able to use with such mysterious effect. "Shades of catnip!" said Sol.
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