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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Red was for searchin' the guy, but I says to come on before we got caught. Red, he laughed kind of queer, and asked me, 'Caught at what? Then I said, 'I dunno, but I was scared. "Anyway, he went through the dead guy's clothes and found some papers and old letters and a little leather bag with a whole lot of gold-dust in it. Red said mebby five hundred dollars!" "Gold-dust?" "Uhuh!
I knew THEN you suspected there was a Hiram SOMEWHERE, as good as if I'd told you. Now you jest get up, Hiram, and give the Colonel a good hand-shake. For if it wasn't for HIM and HIS searchin' ways, and HIS awful power of language, I wouldn't hev got that four thousand dollars out o' that flirty fool Hotchkiss enough to buy a farm, so as you and me could get married!
Green mould would be seen clinging to the walls, and you would see things in the water that ortn't to be throwed there. Moonlight and memory rares up its glittering walls, but reality and the searchin' life of the present tears 'em down.
Ugh! it gives me the shivers. It's a reg'lar Mexican trick! With a gun it's down and out, but this knife work is too slow and searchin'." The newcomer said nothing, but fixed his eye again on the raging man with the knife. "Don't you reckon he's bluffing?" he inquired. "Not any!" denied the other with emphasis. "He's jest drunk enough to be crazy mad."
"Here, you young brats, what are you up to?" demanded Si, striding in among them. "Why, Sargint," said Harry Joslyn, speaking as if confident of being engaged in a praisworthy work, which should receive the commendation of his superiors, "these're two spies and guerrillas that we ketched right in the act, and we're searchin' 'em for evidence to hang 'em." "Spies nothin'!" said Si.
"'But let me savey about this, says Dan Boggs, who's allers a heap inquis'tive an' searchin' after knowledge; 'do you-all impose this onwonted sobriety as a penalty, or do you make the play meedic'nal? Meedic'nal, says Peets. 'In extreme cases, sobriety is plenty cooratif. "Does Enright bow to Doc Peets' demands about no whiskey that a-way?
And here I is!" sez she firmly, and took up the empty tray and departed. She wuz a good singer, her voice full of the sweetness and heart searchin' pathos of her race. And her wild flights of imagination never hurt anyone but herself. Well, after supper, which they called dinner, I felt considerable better.
'It is a stiff-necked gen'ration an' sorely perverse a lot. "The stage jolts along two or three miles, an' nothin' more bein' said. The black-coat gent he groans occasionally, which worries Texas; an' the two infants, gettin' restless, comes tumblin' over onto Cherokee an' is searchin' of his pockets for mementoes. Which this is about as refreshin' to Cherokee as bein' burned at the stake.
"Ellen, my darlint," he answered, "I knew you'd be glad to get me back," and he kissed! again and again her burning lips; "but what do you mane, acushla? What reports! do you spake ov, an' ov what am I accused?" "Oh, thin, Owen, I'm glad you didn't even hear ov id; an' the poliss here searchin' the house to make you pres'ner.
"I did think I'd turn a searchin' glance on yer fur a minute an' shame yer up heah, but you looked so happy an' so full o' biggoty I spared yer, but yer done had time ter cool off now, an' I 'bleeged ter bring yer ter de scratch.
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