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19930A trick?
19930And who is he?
19930Are n''t we?
19930Are the horses all right?
19930Are these Yaquis real Indians?
19930Are they killed?
19930Are they more poisonous then than at other times?
19930Are you hurt?
19930Are you sure we have come the right road?
19930Badly?
19930But I wonder where they got so many cartridges?
19930But can you guess what the game is?
19930But did he see anything of Rosemary and Floyd?
19930But do n''t you think we ought to try it? 19930 But say, do you fellows know anything about these dirty Mexicans who have crossed the border?"
19930But we''re a good ways from Uncle Henry''s ranch yet; are n''t we, Floyd?
19930But what do you suppose their game is?
19930But what good will it do?
19930But what''s it all about?
19930But what, Rosemary?
19930But where can Rosemary and Floyd be?
19930But who is shooting off the rockets?
19930But why are they riding back into town with us?
19930But you wo n''t want pie when you hear--"Say, what''s all this mysterious news?
19930Ca n''t you make him talk, Captain?
19930Ca n''t you see?
19930Could they have been made away with?
19930Del Pinzo?
19930Did he see Rosemary and Floyd carried off?
19930Did the Yaquis shoot you?
19930Did you ever know me to do a thing like that?
19930Did you happen to hear what town it was in Arizona that the Yaquis raided?
19930Did you hear anything?
19930Did you see anything of Rosemary or Floyd?
19930Did you see anything of their prisoners-- young lady and young man?
19930Do n''t shoot? 19930 Do n''t what?"
19930Do n''t you know somebody who rides just like that?
19930Do they put them up at auction?
19930Do you mean the one from La Nogalique?
19930Do you really think they do?
19930Do you reckon they''re Yaquis?
19930Do you see anything?
19930Do you suppose that means they have quit?
19930Do you think it''s the trail of the Yaquis he has discovered?
19930Do you think so?
19930Do you want a bullet through you?
19930Does the message say so?
19930Found something?
19930Good price?
19930Got any pie, Nell?
19930Had enough, Yaqui?
19930His voice does n''t improve with age; does it, Nort?
19930How can they tell?
19930How come?
19930How did it happen?
19930How do you account for that?
19930How do you know?
19930How do you reckon he got here?
19930How so?
19930How''d you fellows come out with your spring round- up?
19930I just wonder if Rosemary and Floyd are up in that nest of beggars?
19930I wonder when we''ll find them?
19930I wonder when we''ll meet up with the imps?
19930Is Dad going to take a vacation? 19930 Is he a Westerner?"
19930Is n''t there some way we could let them know we''re coming?
19930Is that all?
19930May I put down my hands? 19930 Maybe it''s a rescue party after us?"
19930Mike? 19930 Mr. Henry Merkel here?"
19930Now, what''s the game?
19930Oh? 19930 Our steers?"
19930Particulars of what?
19930Purposely? 19930 Real Indians this time?"
19930Rosemary and Floyd; They''d be there just about-- when was that raid, Billee Dobb?
19930Rosemary and Floyd?
19930Rustlers again?
19930Say, Rose, what are we going to do? 19930 Say, what does this mean?"
19930Say, what''s up?
19930Shall I jump on him, Rose?
19930So Del Pinzo is on the rampage again; is he?
19930Some one we all know?
19930Sure they were Yaquis?
19930That your bunch down there?
19930The point is,mused Floyd,"can I shove that rock down?"
19930The question is-- can I?
19930The sheriff?
19930Then shall I try my way?
19930Then they wo n''t harm Rosemary or Floyd?
19930Then what?
19930Then you were n''t going to steal a horse?
19930These young folks are some kin of yours, I take it?
19930Too late? 19930 Troopers?"
19930Troopers?
19930Was that what you started to say when Bud shot the rattler?
19930Was there a fight?
19930We set out to look for the Yaquis--"The Yaquis?
19930Well, do you want to go back?
19930Well, maybe we are, but what do we care for a few hundred miles?
19930Well, what else is there to do?
19930Well?
19930Well?
19930Well?
19930Well?
19930What are we going to do about this, Dad? 19930 What did you do, Rose?"
19930What do n''t you like, Rosemary?
19930What do you mean by firing on us?
19930What do you mean? 19930 What do you mean?"
19930What do you mean?
19930What do you mean?
19930What for?
19930What has?
19930What is it?
19930What is it?
19930What more did you hear, Billee Dobb? 19930 What was he doing in that corral?"
19930What would Rosemary and Floyd be doing with fireworks?
19930What you all up to now? 19930 What you doing here?"
19930What''d you come away from the ranch for?
19930What''s it all about?
19930What''s that?
19930What''s the excitement, and what''s the hurry?
19930What''s the idea-- Mike?
19930What''s the matter now?
19930What''s the matter, Rosemary?
19930What''s the matter?
19930What''s the matter?
19930What''s the matter?
19930What''s the matter?
19930What''s up?
19930What''s wrong, Nort?
19930What?
19930When did it happen?
19930When do we start?
19930Where are we going?
19930Where did you hear it?
19930Where was it?
19930Where was this?
19930Where?
19930Which way did they go?
19930Who are you?
19930Who do you think they count on getting it from?
19930Who sent on to Mr. Merkel the message from Rosemary?
19930Who''s attacking us?
19930Who?
19930Whose then?
19930Why''d he shoot him?
19930Why?
19930Why?
19930Will one of your ponies carry double?
19930Will they really make a stand and fight?
19930Would Rosemary and her brother have reached there by then?
19930Yes, but_ when_?
19930Yes, what is it?
19930You mean a party from Diamond X?
19930You mean he''s passing the buck to Mike here?
19930You mean it wo n''t be easy to find them?
19930You mean you''re going to take his guns with you?
19930''Cause why?
19930And one thing more?"
19930Are you ready?"
19930Are you sure you wo n''t weaken at the last minute, and cave in?"
19930But did you say--_Yaquis_?"
19930But how comes it they fired on one of their own tribe?"
19930But say, Rosemary, what did you and Floyd do to turn the tables so quickly?"
19930But where are they?
19930But who''s this coming up?"
19930But you say you''re hungry?"
19930CHAPTER XIII WEARY CAPTIVES"Rosemary, are you able to stand it?"
19930CHAPTER XVI INDIAN"SIGN""What''s that?"
19930Did you shoot him up?"
19930Do you want to come with us?"
19930Have the Yaquis anything like that?"
19930How are they all?"
19930How do you account for it, Billee?"
19930How many of the imps broke loose?"
19930How the Yaquis would scatter; eh, Rosemary?"
19930I am wounded--""Oh, put''em down?
19930I believe, but we''ll pass that up, and I''ll substitute''what time is it?''
19930If they are n''t I do n''t see why in the name of all the rattlers of Forked Rover[ Transcriber''s note: River?]
19930Is it at all serious?
19930It was the most primitive sort of a prison, so simple, in fact, that after a while Floyd said:"What''s to hinder us walking away from here, Rosemary?
19930Or did it?
19930Shall I jump on him?
19930Shall we go?"
19930Sure it is n''t Hank_ Fisher_ who vouches for you?"
19930They might have been there--""Who were coming?"
19930To be captured by the Indians and made into sausage meat?"
19930Was it but a trick?
19930We ca n''t let our cousins be carried off this way; can we, fellows?"
19930What do you mean?"
19930What do you mean?"
19930What had happened?
19930What horse can I take for him?"
19930What''s your name and where are you from?"
19930When would the rescuers come?
19930Where are you from?"
19930Where''d you fellows come from?"
19930Why do you call him that?"
19930Will you?"
19930_ Sabe_?"
22566A what?
22566And the Cowardly Lion?
22566And were you?
22566And when you make a sign she will bring you to her in the Land of Oz?
22566And-- and-- do you eat people?
22566And-- pardon me for the foolish question-- but, are you all invisible?
22566Are the bears invis''ble, too?
22566Are these bears here?
22566Are they real?
22566Are we only half way up?
22566Are you hungry?
22566Are you sure?
22566Are you sure?
22566Are you surprised that you are unable to see the people of Voe?
22566As dead as poss''ble would be pretty dead, would n''t it?
22566But Jim knows his business all right-- don''t you, Jim?
22566But did n''t you cut it almost too short?
22566But how can you get down?
22566But how would it help us to be able to fly?
22566But tell me,said Dorothy,"how did such a brave Champion happen to let the bears eat him?
22566But what am I going to eat?
22566But where are the people?
22566But why destroy my friends?
22566But why did n''t you tell us at first?
22566But why fight at all, in that case?
22566But wo n''t they be veg''table, like everything else here?
22566But_ is_ there any other place?
22566Ca n''t you mend them?
22566Ca n''t you see us?
22566Can he fight?
22566Can your horse talk?
22566Canary- birds?
22566Could n''t you manage to hold me in your arms?
22566Could we fly with them?
22566Did he? 22566 Did n''t you feel the ground shake?"
22566Did the glass houses in your city grow, too?
22566Did you ever see such little pigs before?
22566Did you not wear green whiskers at one time?
22566Did you see that, Dorothy?
22566Do I like fish? 22566 Do I?
22566Do all your people grow on bushes?
22566Do you eat?
22566Do you happen to know whatever became of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow?
22566Do you mean my kitten must be put in a grave?
22566Do you mean that I''m a freak?
22566Do you mean that Princess Ozma will see this cave in her enchanted picture, and see all of us here, and what we are doing?
22566Do you see that big rock standing on the hillside yonder?
22566Do you take me for a salamander?
22566Do you take me for a tom- cat? 22566 Do you take me for a weasel?
22566Does it hurt to be invis''ble?
22566Does the air bear up your weight?
22566Does the dama- fruit grow on a low bush, and look something like a peach?
22566For the second time?
22566Have you a factory in this place?
22566Have you come to take me to Hugson''s Ranch?
22566Have you ever died yet?
22566How about the birds and beasts and fishes?
22566How are your brains?
22566How big is this hole?
22566How can we do that?
22566How can we go away?
22566How did they happen to be so little?
22566How did you happen to be shod with gold?
22566How does it taste?
22566How is Uncle Henry?
22566How long did you rule the Emerald City, after I left here?
22566How long do you live, after you are picked?
22566How long will it take you to stop my breath?
22566How long will you be with us?
22566How old are you?
22566How old is your mother?
22566How?
22566How_ can_ we''scape?
22566I live on the fat of the land-- don''t I, Ozma?
22566If it makes you invis''ble, why do you eat it?
22566If that is so,said the boy,"how could he do that wonderful trick with the nine tiny piglets?"
22566In what way?
22566Is Billina a girl?
22566Is Mr. Hugson your uncle?
22566Is it possible that you are a Real Horse?
22566Is n''t it fine?
22566Is n''t it funny?
22566Is n''t she ripe now?
22566Is n''t that a great deal?
22566Is not the Real Horse a beautiful animal?
22566Is that the way to treat my friends?
22566Is this a fairy country?
22566May I eat one of them?
22566May we examine some of these articles?
22566My thoughts are always----"Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?
22566Neither stones nor people?
22566Nine times?
22566No?
22566Oats? 22566 Of course; ca n''t you see?"
22566Of course; how else could I see it? 22566 Oh; are you hungry?"
22566Sir,said he,"why are you here, in the Land of the Mangaboos?"
22566Suppose the stairs get steeper?
22566Tell me, Eureka,said the Princess, gently:"did you eat my pretty piglet?"
22566Tell us, dear, what do the creatures look like?
22566That would be unlucky, would n''t it?
22566Then why not race with the Sawhorse?
22566Train in?
22566Was Ozma once a boy?
22566Was not the door closed?
22566Well, what then?
22566Well,said another piglet,"you are a wizard, are you not?"
22566Were you ever before shut up in a cave, far under the earth, with no way of getting out?
22566What are Gargoyles?
22566What are those holes up there?
22566What are you going to do with us?
22566What are your products?
22566What brought you back?
22566What curious animal is that which is eating the grass on my lawn?
22566What do you do?
22566What do you mean by that?
22566What do you want?
22566What does all this mean, anyhow?
22566What does that mean?
22566What for?
22566What good is it?
22566What harm can the Gurgles do?
22566What in the world is this?
22566What is he good for?
22566What is your name?
22566What made them fly away?
22566What shall we do now?
22566What shall we do now?
22566What sort of a place is this?
22566What was that?
22566What were you when you were first alive?
22566What will happen if she is guilty?
22566What would you do?
22566What''s that?
22566What''s the matter with you, old man?
22566What''s the use?
22566What''s to become of me?
22566What''s wrong?
22566What, the hinges?
22566Where are they?
22566Where are they?
22566Where are you?
22566Where did you come from?
22566Where did you grow?
22566Where do you come from, then?
22566Where does it lead to?
22566Where in the world have you been, my lad?
22566Where is Dorothy?
22566Where is she?
22566Where is she?
22566Where is that Magic Belt?
22566Where is the House of the Sorcerer?
22566Where is your mother?
22566Where shall we stay?
22566Where''s my milk?
22566Where? 22566 Wherever have you been, Eureka?"
22566Which wings must I flop first?
22566Who accuses me?
22566Who are they?
22566Who built these lovely bridges?
22566Who did you say it was?
22566Who is Ozma?
22566Who is this?
22566Who said so?
22566Who will be the jury?
22566Why did you leave the surface of the earth?
22566Why did you wickedly and viciously send the Rain of Stones to crack and break our houses?
22566Why do n''t you walk down?
22566Why do you not eat the damas?
22566Why do you want me?
22566Why have you dared to intrude your unwelcome persons into the secluded Land of the Mangaboos?
22566Why not let them live?
22566Why not?
22566Why should n''t I?
22566Why, where''s Eureka?
22566Will it hurt?
22566Will there be any more Rains?
22566Would such a gentle animal be guilty of eating a fellow creature? 22566 Your Highness,"cried the Woggle- Bug, appealing to Ozma,"have I a mind''s eye, or have n''t I?"
22566Am I talking?
22566And if he was invis''ble, and the bears invis''ble, who knows that they really ate him up?"
22566Are you guilty, or not guilty?"
22566Are you not vegetable, also?"
22566Are you ready?"
22566But I did n''t see them go; did you?"
22566But it''s a big hollow, is n''t it?"
22566Can you match that pedigree, little girl?"
22566Can you remember any breakfast that I''ve had today?"
22566Can you talk?"
22566Could n''t you, Zeb?"
22566Do n''t you remember how the Champion escaped them by shouting his battle- cry?"
22566Do n''t you see their terrible eyes?"
22566Do you ever make mistakes?"
22566Do you like fish?"
22566Eh?
22566Have n''t you heard of him?"
22566Have you breakfasted, Sir Horse?"
22566Have you them here with you?"
22566He has won the race, and won it fairly; but what can a horse of flesh do against a tireless beast of wood?"
22566I can see her, in my mind''s eye----""What''s that?"
22566I mean, will you be good to us, or do you intend to eat us?"
22566Is n''t it funny?"
22566Is not a Wizard something like a Sorcerer?"
22566Is there nothing that is decent to eat in this palace?"
22566Jump out and fight?"
22566Now was the Wizard''s turn, so he smiled upon the assemblage and asked:"Will somebody kindly loan me a hat?"
22566On the roof?"
22566Otherwise--""What will happen otherwise?"
22566Please, Mr. Wizard, may I eat just one of the fat little piglets?
22566Presently she asked:"Why did your mother tie your tails?"
22566So what could I do but tell"what happened to the Wizard afterward"?
22566That''s_ real_ magic, Mr. Wizard; is n''t it?
22566The trembling servants sent for the Royal Steward, who came in haste and said:"What would your Highness like for dinner?"
22566Then Jim exclaimed:"For goodness sake, what sort of a being are you?"
22566Then Jim suddenly asked:"Are there any horses in Oz?"
22566Then he asked:"What is an earthquake?"
22566Then the Princess spoke in a stern voice:"Prisoner, what have you to say for yourself?
22566Then, after a moment''s thought, she asked:"Are we friends or enemies?
22566This is a nice scrape you''ve got me into, is n''t it?"
22566Were you ever with a circus, brother?"
22566What do you call it?"
22566What else can you do?"
22566What is your sorcery good for if it can not tell us the truth?"
22566What''s going to become of us now?"
22566Where did you find my missing pet, Nick Chopper?"
22566Why are you so bad?"
22566Why destroy me?"
22566Will you buy it, my dear?"
22566Will you kindly tell us which way your mother went to get on top the earth?"
22566Will your Sorcerer die?"
22566Wizard?"
22566Wizard?"
22566Would you like it again?"
22566You''ve been to Australia, have n''t you?"
22566[ Illustration:"ARE THERE REALLY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM?"]
22566[ Illustration:"FOR GOODNESS SAKE, WHAT SORT OF A BEING ARE YOU?"]
22566and what can I do but obey their commands?
22566are_ you_ here again?"
22566cried Dorothy,"did you eat the bones?"
22566he said, seeing her,"are you Dorothy Gale?"
22566said the Wizard,"will somebody please loan me a handkerchief?"
22566said the Wizard;"are there really people in this room?"
46477A coulie is always connected with some sort of hill, is n''t it, Ned?
46477Amos could skip out if he feels like it, because his pony has fleet heels, and might outrun the wolf pack?
46477And I reckon then that all these dead wolves belonged to you?
46477And that''s where we aim to spend some little time, is it, boys?
46477And what did you think I had up me sleeve, if it''s a fair question?
46477And you could n''t find a mount to come back on, I suppose?
46477Any description of what he looks like?
46477Are they poisoned and will they all die?
46477Are you sick?
46477As how?
46477But I do n''t hear any signs of the critters, do you, Ned?
46477But ai n''t yuh meanin''tuh pay me anything fo''shootin''up my pets thisaways?
46477But all the same Chunky means to keep on the watch; he''ll have the stockade well guarded, wo n''t he, Ned?
46477But how about the animals,asked Harry, nervously;"do we leave them to be pulled down by the savage beasts of prey?
46477But how are we goin''to sleep without our blankets?
46477But say, are you fellows noticing how jolly this scenery is around here?
46477But sure, you do n''t think that little runt would peach on us, do you?
46477But that''s not saying they''re gone, is it?
46477But the message?
46477But we do n''t want to go into the wolf scalping business, do we, Ned?
46477But we''d better be going on, had n''t we?
46477But what are we going to do about it, Ned?
46477But where''d you come from, pard?
46477But,Jack broke in with,"you never shouted all that time, or we''d have heard you long before we did?"
46477Ca n''t you budge at all?
46477Can you blame them?
46477D''ye think now he meant that, or was he playin''hocus- pocus with us boys?
46477Dast we get down now?
46477Did I get him?
46477Did any of you happen to notice which way the pigeon was flying, before the hawk darted out from the trees and chased it?
46477Did the lady tell Chin Chin Charley to give the boys some grub after they came in from the drive, Ned; is that the good news you want to tell me?
46477Did you ever see such a terrible brute in your born days?
46477Did you find a message waiting for you here, Ned?
46477Did you overtake him, Skinny?
46477Did you think to grab up the grub and take it up with you?
46477Do n''t you be hearing the noise beyond there?
46477Do you see him, Ned?
46477Do you suppose it could be done?
46477Ever been to his pen and seen his stock?
46477Have you any plan, Ned?
46477He went out with your crowd, did n''t he?
46477Here, who''s doin''that now?
46477How about telling your Aunt Mehitabel about it, Harry?
46477How about the ponies, Ned; do you think it is safe to leave them here?
46477How about wolves?
46477How could there?
46477How long have you been caught there?
46477How many herds are there on the range just now, Chunky?
46477How much further do we have to go, Chunky?
46477How''s it going to end, Ned?
46477I did promise you, did n''t I?
46477I heard some mention of a Washout Coulie; is that where we''re headin''right now; and why d''ye reckon they give it such a funny name?
46477I hope the cattle will be found feedin''in the place they called a coulie?
46477I throw up my job right here, see?
46477I wonder if you winged him with that shot, Jack?
46477I wonder now do we get any?
46477I wonder where he can be right now?
46477I''ll hold as steady as Gibraltar Rock, Jimmy, so if you miss you must n''t go and lay the blame on me, hear?
46477Is it the wolves you''re talking about?
46477Is it very far we have to go for our herd, Ned?
46477Is that Sloper with the hat on the back of his head?
46477Is your father a rancher, then, Amos?
46477It gets pretty cool toward morning and as we have n''t any blankets, would you mind if we crawled inside that deserted cabin there to sleep?
46477Jack, will you do me a favor?
46477Ketch on to the scout togs, would you? 46477 Let Ned tell us what the game is, ca n''t you, Jimmy?"
46477Look at that, would you?
46477Look at the way the boys are jumping for their horses, will you? 46477 Looks some serious, do n''t it?"
46477Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb-- is that what you mean, Ned?
46477Ned, whatever do you imagine this kid is doing out here all by himself?
46477No use hunting for it in the morning, I should think?
46477Not with them lazy burros, I opine, pard?
46477Now, would n''t it be queer if we_ did_ run across the mutt there at your uncle''s place, Harry?
46477Ought we to let him sneak away, Ned?
46477Queer they did n''t bother doing much hunting for Jack, did they?
46477Seems like we did n''t get here any to soon, hey, Ned?
46477Seems ter me thar was four o''the tenderfeet kids; how''bout that, Ally?
46477So you can get your heads together and try to skip out, is that what you''re after?
46477Sounds like home, do n''t it?
46477Tell him to change the subject, wo n''t you, Ned? 46477 Tell me about that, now,"muttered Jimmy;"was there ever anything like the luck that chases after us all the while?
46477Then he''s a puncher, is he?
46477Then his broncho was better than any of your mounts, I suppose?
46477Then it must have been from Washington?
46477Then you''ll tackle the bunch, even if they number more than we do?
46477There, did you see that?
46477Tie the end around the limb and let me pull myself up, Mister, wo n''t you?
46477Want to know somethin''about me, I reckon?
46477Was it just one man made us skip out like all that?
46477Well, we ai n''t all dead yet, are we?
46477Well, what of that?
46477Well?
46477What ails you fellows; do n''t any of you expect to crawl into your blankets and pick up a little sleep? 46477 What are we turning aside for, Ned?"
46477What can we do, Ned?
46477What does it matter,he told himself, finally;"just as Chunky said, if we take them by surprise the advantage is all with us?
46477What does the W mean?
46477What if we rushed out and started to fight our way through?
46477What is?
46477What strikes you as so funny, Jimmy?
46477What they call a homing pigeon, you mean, do n''t you, Ned?
46477What were you doing in the stream that you stood there and let the sand suck you in?
46477What''s that you''ve got besides, Jimmy?
46477What''s that, Ned; a tame pigeon out here on the plains?
46477What''s that, raising wolves, do you mean, Amos? 46477 What''s the game?"
46477What''s the matter, Jimmy; think you smell dinner cooking?
46477What''s wrong, Amos?
46477What, me? 46477 What, me?"
46477Where are you going, Ned?
46477Which way was it coming then?
46477Who''s that?
46477Why ca n''t we find a way to keep it out of the cave?
46477Why not lock him up somehow, and keep him from skipping out?
46477Will the ropes hold if they get to cutting up?
46477Wot d''ye mean a holdin''a man up thisaway, when he jest natrally draps in to arsk who killed them pets o''his''n?
46477Would you be after hearing the nerve of him, fellers?
46477Yes, and that must refer to my two uncles, Colonel Job Haines and James Henshaw?
46477You get what I says, do n''t you? 46477 You mean Coyote Smith, Bob Caruso and Tinplate George?"
46477You mean we''ll just have to hoist the white rag and give up?
46477You mean, because you have the hard luck to be connected with a bad man like Hy Adams?
46477You mean, he could tell from the handwriting?
46477You must have made record time getting here, then, Jimmy?
46477You must mean the wolves that Harkness keeps shut up in his pen for breeding purposes, is that it, Amos?
46477You notice that it says_ two_ bosses, do n''t you?
46477You''ll sure look us up before long, Amos?
46477You''re goin''out on the range with me, Sloper, hear that?
46477Am I right there?
46477And do n''t the rest of you get jealous if you see how thick me''n him are expectin''to be; ai n''t we, Chin Chin?"
46477And that little woman who calls Hy Adams her husband, just think of how she must suffer when he rages like a bull in a china shop?"
46477Are you all agreeable?"
46477But Ned, perhaps he followed us up here?"
46477But say, d''ye really think he''ll hang around till the Colonel comes home?"
46477But that''s no reason I ought to be, is it?"
46477But what is there so stunning about the fact of this bird having been set loose at the ranch?
46477Can we do anything to get them to let up on the game?"
46477Can you beat it?"
46477Can you beat it?"
46477D''ye expect he wants to have that nice little practice whipping- bee right away, and not wait for morning to come?"
46477Did ye ever know me to be sick?
46477Did you ever know me to give anything up first pop?
46477Do you know what makes it, Amos?"
46477Do you think they''ll try to carry the fort by assault, Ned?"
46477Do you understand that, Harkness?"
46477Even Jimmy raised his fiery head from the hammock to call out:"What''s the bloomin''row about now?
46477Fear''d ye''d git cold in the night, was yuh?
46477Get that?"
46477Got''em all sized up now, have ye, Ned?"
46477He did not make any reply when Ned finished, only to scowl and remark:"S''posen I c''n trot along now, without anybody borin''me in the back?"
46477He''s sure on the blink and whatever am I agoin''to do now, without any Navajo blanket to sleep in nights?
46477How about it, Harry, is n''t it nearly done?
46477How could they know that in this telling the story, they might not be giving themselves away to one of the suspects?
46477How could they tell which way the animal had gone in making his headlong flight?
46477How d''ye s''pose this Wolf Harkness makes it pay?"
46477How''s that, Ned?"
46477I see, you adopted him, did you, Amos?"
46477I suppose you''ll want another horse after this?"
46477I wonder now if that was n''t Amos''s awful dad?"
46477I''m alayin''down on the job for onct, see?"
46477If we start to run out of this canyon, how do we know what they''ll do?
46477Illustration:"But ai n''t yuh meanin''tuh pay me anything fo''shootin''up my pets thisaway?"
46477Is that the way they always act when the Colonel shows up in the distance?
46477Jimmy, when the time comes to cut loose yelpt like a Fiji Islander, or anything else that makes a big noise; get that?"
46477Ned sickened of the business quickly, but what could they do otherwise?
46477Ned, why do n''t you tell Jimmy to sound taps, all lights out so the rest of us can adjourn?
46477None of the others shown up yet?"
46477Now, what d''ye think he can be asking of Clem Parsons, Ned?
46477Say, are you Harry Stevens?"
46477Suppose you beckon to that leader fellow and ask him, Ned?"
46477Sure you must be kiddin''?"
46477Tell me about that, will you?
46477Tell us about it, Ned, wo n''t you?"
46477The bait took, for immediately he heard Amos say:"What''s that, Clem Parsons?
46477There ai n''t agoin''to be any fun like that to- night, you hear me, Hy Adams?
46477There must be some hosses just as good in that bunch, and look at''em ride, will you?
46477Think I''m in the wholesale line, do you?
46477Umpire?"
46477Was he knocked over by our fire?
46477We got through, did n''t we?
46477What ails the cub, d''ye think, Jack?"
46477What d''ye say to resting up a bit here before we start down the grade, Ned?"
46477What do you want me to do, for you said I could help you win out?"
46477Whatever can they be burnin''and how does it happen to get in here?"
46477Whatever will become of us now?"
46477Why, we may run across him tomorrow or the day afterwards, who knows?"
46477With both owners of the ranch away, to whom were they to communicate their alarming news?
46477Would he be apt to head for home, or else try and join the horses of the fleeing rustlers?
46477Would he be in any danger from the sharp teeth and claws of the wolves when they came rushing up?
46477Would he start to follow them, making use of his training as a tracker in order to stick to the trail the animals would have left behind them?
46477You do n''t think those men will dare come close in here and try to steal the cattle right out of the corral, do you, Ned?"
46477You''re all down on me, I know, but you do n''t see me shakin''in my boots, do ye?
46477but this dad of yours must be a grizzly bear, Amos?"
46477come here, will you?
46477did you ever see a prettier picture than this is, with the whole country spread out like a big map?"
46477did you see that beggar roll over?
46477echoed Jimmy,"faith, d''ye mean by rustlers?"
46477ejaculated Jimmy, bristling up instantly;"is that the opinion you''ve got of your old chum, Ned Nestor?
46477exclaimed Harry;"and I wonder now if you got any sort of picture, Jack, when you used your flashlight on the scrimmage?"
46477he exclaimed;"but what''s he doin''out there, I want to know?
46477he got the innocent that rush, did n''t he?
46477he remarked,"you must have asked the fellow you rode in behind?"
46477if only I had my Marlin here right now, mebbe I would n''t put him on the blink in a hurry, though?"
46477is that so, Sloper?"
46477is that you, Ned?"
46477my, do n''t that take the cake, though?
46477remarked the tall puncher, quickly,"an''tell me how you expect to keep from goin''out on the range with my party?"
46477shouted Jack;"do n''t you hear the pack coming along?
46477so he is the one?"
46477so soon as that?"
46477tell me about this, will you?"
46477they could hear him saying, almost breathlessly to himself;"thirty hungry wolves, all at a pop, hey?
46477understand that, kids?"
46477what can it be?"
46477what if they do start in to use those cruel quirts on our backs, Ned?"
46477what''s all that patter mean?"
46477you can rely on Chunky then, can you?"
46477you think so, do you, Jack?"
15798''And what did she think of him?'' 15798 And did you ever hear such magnificent thunder?"
15798And how do you like North Cheyenne? 15798 And-- what?"
15798Are n''t you sorry you are not going to stay and have a nice time with us all, and help eat up the rest of the cake?
15798Are the summers so dry?
15798Are you going, dear?
15798Are you sure your head does n''t ache? 15798 At last she said something about Comte Ernest de Conflans,--I had heard of him, perhaps?
15798But how can I choose? 15798 But suppose she says''No''?"
15798But what_ does_ it mean?
15798But what_ has_ made the place grow so fast?
15798But you do n''t mean New York and Boston when you say''one- horse little place,''surely?
15798Dear me, is that her name?
15798Did Geoff say that?
15798Do n''t I?
15798Do n''t they look exactly like Cousin Helen?
15798Do n''t you see? 15798 Do you believe he meant it?"
15798Do you know what rent she asks for the house?
15798Do you mean that you really want to stay a week under this rock with nothing to eat?
15798Do you really go so soon?
15798Do you recollect that beautiful white crape shawl of mamma''s which papa gave me two years ago? 15798 Do you think they really would n''t mind being tidied up a little?
15798Does Dr. Hope tell you anything about the place?
15798Does she look like you?
15798Does this chimney draw?
15798Has n''t he?
15798Has your old lady left something after all?
15798Have you a partner?
15798Have you decided, then?
15798Have you thought what it shall be?
15798Have you, indeed?
15798Having an offer? 15798 High Valley?
15798Home?
15798How can I?
15798How did it happen? 15798 How far away is your ranch?"
15798How long have you known him? 15798 I beg your pardon,"he said;"but are n''t you-- isn''t it-- Clover Carr?"
15798I say, have_ you_ been here all the evening?
15798I suppose_ your_ rooms are front ones?
15798I wonder why it is that I mind it so much?
15798If it were a lady,--yourself, for instance,--could it be made anyway tolerable, do you think? 15798 Is he nice?"
15798Is it much of a walk?
15798Is it you; is it really you?
15798Is it? 15798 Is n''t it delightful to have a friend right off who knows papa, and does things for us because we are papa''s children?
15798Is n''t it wonderful? 15798 Is n''t it?"
15798Is n''t that rather depressing?
15798Is papa crying, do you suppose?
15798Is that good- by to Cheyenne?
15798It would be very nice indeed,doubtfully;"but who could we get to go with us?"
15798May I cut the string, Katy?
15798May we, Clarence? 15798 Not a letter from your mother?"
15798Oh, Rose,--oh, Rose,cried Clover, in fits of laughter,"did you really tell her that?"
15798Oh, did you want the key?
15798Oh, is it Miss Carr?
15798Oh, what are they?
15798Oh, why did you?
15798Really; so soon as that?
15798Saturday? 15798 Sha''n''t you have a floral bell, or a bower to stand in, or something of that kind?"
15798Shall you?
15798Speaking of young men,went on Clover,"what do you suppose has become of Clarence Page?
15798The Shoshone House? 15798 The key?"
15798Then, Geoff-- if you feel like that-- if you''re quite sure you feel like that, I think--"What do you think, dearest?
15798This is n''t half- bad, is it?
15798Three is a good many at a time, though, is n''t it?
15798Three what?
15798Was I? 15798 Well, Katy dear, what next?
15798Were you? 15798 What do you know about old maids, midget?"
15798What do you mean?
15798What do you think?
15798What is a''round- up''and who is''us''?
15798What is the matter, Miss Clover?
15798What is the other thing you have set your heart on? 15798 What on earth did they send that old thing with you for?"
15798What sort of bad news?
15798What would?
15798What''s going to happen on Thursday?
15798What?
15798What?
15798When are you coming back from the Marshall Pass?
15798When are you coming back?
15798Where is the valley?
15798Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
15798Who''s that fellow anyway?
15798Whom do you think this letter is from, girls? 15798 Why not?
15798Why, Phil, what made you say that?
15798Wo n''t you want your letters?
15798Would n''t it be inexcusable selfishness in a man to ask such a thing?
15798You look awfully pretty, do you know?
15798You''ll dine with us, of course?
15798You''ve forgotten me?
15798_ Will_ you hear her talk?
15798And papa and the children, and the lonely and far- away feelings?
15798And what did they say?
15798And what is that about flies?
15798But the moment she got Katy to herself, she burst out with,--"My dear, what_ am_ I going to do?
15798But then why did she look so black when she asked where we were going, and I said to your wedding?
15798But when did you come, and where are you?"
15798But you''re not angry with me, are you, dear?
15798Ca n''t you come?
15798Can you tell?
15798Clover,"he went on, for, puzzled at his tone, she made no answer,"could n''t you like me a little?"
15798Could n''t you, Clover?"
15798Could you ever love me well enough for that, do you think?"
15798Dear Clovy,"coaxingly,"could n''t you?
15798Did Mr. Beloit send you?"
15798Did you see the thing that Polly sent this morning?"
15798Did you think I would get''mawwied''without you?
15798Did you write it yourself, Roslein?"
15798Do n''t you recollect how I used to tell you about him at Ashburn?"
15798Do n''t you recollect my telling you about him?"
15798Do n''t you remember his saying that the cattle got very wild, and they had to ride after them?
15798Do n''t you remember, Phil, how hard Katy and I worked last summer to keep the geraniums and fuschias alive in that long drought?
15798Do n''t you think it would really be nicer in that way?"
15798Do n''t you think so?"
15798Do n''t you think that travelling is the most delightful thing in the world, Miss Clover?"
15798Do n''t you want to come and help?"
15798Do you consider it all pure kindness?
15798Do you know when she wants to start?"
15798Do you remember?"
15798Do you suppose I do n''t know how you have to look out for her and do everything?
15798Do you suppose she is never sorry for herself?
15798Do you suppose there is any chance?"
15798Does n''t it seem too sweet?
15798Does she always behave that way when the aristocracy is lightly spoken of?"
15798From the East?
15798Have you just come?
15798Have you really taken this funny little house, as Phil tells us?"
15798Have you seen anything of mother and Lilly since they got back from Europe, Clover?"
15798Helen''s?"
15798Hope?"
15798How can I take care of her?
15798How can you be so absurd, Clarence?"
15798How could she do it?
15798How could you?
15798How do we know what this Mrs. Watson is like?
15798How do you like them?"
15798How is he, by the way?"
15798How were poor Clover and Phil to transport such a weight of things?
15798How would it be if I asked Mrs. Hope?
15798I can afford to marry now; wo n''t you stay in Colorado and be my wife?"
15798I met both Ellen Gray and Esther Dearborn the other day, and where do you think it was?
15798I never hankered in the least for Sylvester Slack, did you, Katy?"
15798I see that Dr. Hope drives carefully, but yet-- You do n''t think we shall meet anything of the kind to- day, do you, Doctor?"
15798I shall sit here with you all the time; and is n''t it lovely that we have those enchanting mountains just before our eyes?
15798I suppose your principles do n''t preclude a wedding- cake?"
15798I''m very fond of you, just as I am of the boys; but--""But what?
15798If he would drive you out, and Mrs. Hope would stay on, would you come for a week?
15798Is he here too?"
15798Is it Mr. Beloit who has the letting of the house?"
15798Is n''t it an exquisite place?"
15798Is n''t it nice?"
15798Is n''t it scrumptious, Geoff?
15798Is that the name of your place?"
15798Is there any reason in particular?"
15798Is you mawwied yet?"
15798It was evident that something must be done, and speedily-- but what?
15798It will be nice to go out and see Clarence''s, if we can get some lady to go with us, wo n''t it?"
15798It''s some natural law, I presume,--gravitation or levitation, which is it?"
15798Mamma, when shall I be old enough to have a house all of my own?"
15798May I say it to you?"
15798May we play that it is our house, and do what we like, and change about and arrange things?
15798Miss Carr--""Oh, please, wo n''t you call me Clover?"
15798Now did you ever hear of anything quite so dear as that, for a baby only three years and five months old?
15798Now the green hat she had winter before last was-- Don''t you think those mountains are dreadfully bright and distinct?
15798Now, girls, what was there in that to make her angry?
15798Now, which shall it be?
15798Oh, what''s that coming now?
15798Oh, why did Mrs. Hall interfere?
15798Rosebud, who am I, do you think?"
15798There was that one at the Pension Suisse; you remember, Tanta?
15798Though we''re pretty good housekeepers too, considering; do n''t you think so?"
15798Was your letter from Miss Inches, John?"
15798Watson?"
15798Watson?"
15798We did n''t look much like it, did we,--you in your big chair and I on my sofa?
15798We will be good friends always, sha''n''t we?"
15798We''ll go over and see them as soon as we can, wo n''t we, Clover?"
15798What business has he to be bringing you roses, and making up parties to take you off on private cars?"
15798What did she do?"
15798What do you think of that at thirty miles an hour?
15798What had she undertaken to do?
15798What have you been talking about all the evening?"
15798What made him say it?"
15798What on earth did you go there for?"
15798What sort of a gown are_ you_ going to have, by the way?
15798What was it?"
15798What was that?
15798What would become of us if it did?"
15798What_ are_ we going to do without her and Katy?"
15798What_ are_ you laughing at?"
15798What_ will_ Ellen say?
15798What_ would_ they all say when they knew?
15798When do you suppose we shall hear?
15798When the clergyman said,"Mary, wilt thou take this man to be thy wedded husband?"
15798Where are you stopping?
15798Where did that vase come from, Clover?
15798Where is that?"
15798Which day may I come?"
15798Who can this be from, I wonder?"
15798Who does not know the delightfulness of that first sitting out of doors after a long winter''s confinement?
15798Who is that from, Katy?
15798Who wants to come next to them?
15798Why did you, Katy?"
15798Why should n''t I?
15798Will you, dear Mrs. Hope, and be our matron?
15798Would n''t it be too enchanting?
15798You knew that she was married, did n''t you?"
15798You like him, do n''t you, Phil; and do n''t you like your room?"
15798You liked the High Valley, did n''t you?
15798You mean to have a wedding- dress, do n''t you?"
15798You said he was English, did n''t you?"
15798You''ll lie quiet and rest till dinner, wo n''t you?"
15798You''re sure you must go?
15798asked the practical Clover;"and does the kitchen stove bake well?"
15798cried Clover, who had not listened to a word of this conversation;"did you ever see anything so lovely?"
15798do n''t you think Car Forty- seven is nice,--the one we are going out West in, you know?
15798is he ill?"
15798replied Clover, surprised;"of this house, do you mean?"
15798said the insatiable Clover,"is that the very last?
15798she said again;"what could you do for him, Clarence?"
15798what has that gentleman gone off for in such a hurry?"
15798where are you?
6165A cork life- preserver?
6165Account for what?
6165Alle same leady velly soon,said the amiable Chinese, with a cheerful grin,"How you like plan- cakes?"
6165Am I your son?
6165An''you tanned him good and proper, too; did n''t you Dave?
6165And I guess you''ll be glad of a chance to lie down; wo n''t you?
6165And do you think my parents are-- are dead?
6165And now you come and say you do n''t want to go into it with me?
6165And was it never found out who did it?
6165And what did you do when you heard you had no folks left?
6165And where did you say he found you?
6165Any trouble?
6165Anything wrong?
6165Are you a puncher?
6165Are you game?
6165Are you speaking to me?
6165Are you sure you''re all right, Dave, my boy?
6165Are you sure?
6165As bad as that?
6165Back again, son?
6165Because, I suppose, you''re going in with the Bar U folks?
6165But about the fences, concerning which Pocus Pete spoke to me?
6165But are you sure?
6165But could you send for it? 6165 But how can we?
6165But what is he doing here, and why is he riding away instead of helping me out? 6165 But what''s the matter?"
6165But where is the cork belt?
6165But where were these rustlers from, Dave?
6165Ca n''t you guess?
6165Can I ride across here?
6165Can a person live after that mix- up?
6165Could you get it?
6165Dad, where is that cork life- preserver?
6165Dave, are you hurt?
6165Did he shoot him?
6165Did you have a fall?
6165Do n''t you see some one crouched down in the grass there, lighting matches?
6165Do n''t you see two specks there, Dave? 6165 Do you know Len Molick?"
6165Do you really mean it?
6165Do you think he set the big fire, Pete?
6165Do you think he''ll shoot?
6165Do you want to turn back, Dave?
6165Does he look anything like you?
6165Either or both?
6165Feel like taking it on the gallop?
6165Fire did you say, Dave?
6165Go away from here, Dad?
6165Grub ready, Hop Loy?
6165Grub ready?
6165Guess you''ll be needin''a pair of specks, wo n''t you, Whitey?
6165Has an earthquake occurred, or has the river unexpectedly taken an underground course?
6165Has it anything to do with the Molicks?
6165Have the plows come?
6165His brother?
6165How are you goin''t''stop''em?
6165How are you going to fight it?
6165How can that be?
6165How did he find out about it?
6165How did they break out?
6165How did they get out?
6165How did you come to fall?
6165How long can I stay here, now that I know I am not Dave Carson-- but somebody else? 6165 How was I dressed when you found me?
6165How''d he get away?
6165How''d you happen to know about it?
6165How''d you make out?
6165How? 6165 Hungry?"
6165Hurt? 6165 I do n''t have to explain to you everything I say; do I?"
6165I know that, but--"An''what evidence have you got that Len did this mean trick? 6165 I meant would we have much trouble in making a breach in it?"
6165I must have rattled around in that?
6165I regard it as a pretty sure sign of his guilt-- that running away; do n''t you?
6165I say, Dave, are you coming?
6165I suspected as much,Mr. Bellmore said,"Is the dam a very big or strong one?"
6165I wonder how it would be to take a trip over to the Molick dam, and see what they''re doing?
6165I wonder if I''d better mention Len?
6165I wonder if I''ll ever find out who my parents are?
6165I wonder if I''ll ever have a part in them?
6165I wonder who I am?
6165I wonder who he is?
6165Is he driving them ahead of him?
6165Is it drying up as badly as that?
6165Is it possible that some error has been made on the part of those who gave me letters of introduction? 6165 Is n''t it?"
6165Is n''t this a free range? 6165 Is that all you can tell about me-- Dad?"
6165Is that so, Dave?
6165Is that so?
6165Is there any way of forcing him?
6165It is n''t much like locating a water trail, I expect?
6165Len?
6165Lost them?
6165Not so sure of what?
6165Oh, he does; eh?
6165Oh, here you are; eh; Len?
6165One thing? 6165 Perhaps not But what are you going to do with his horse?"
6165Plenty hungly Mlister Dave?
6165Pretty good round- up; eh, Dad?
6165Rolling River must be getting pretty dry; is n''t it, Dave?
6165So that was his game; eh?
6165So that''s your game; is it?
6165So you are going in with Molick?
6165Some strays, Pete? 6165 Th''horse?
6165That''s news to me, I wonder what that means?
6165The boys coming back, Pete?
6165The deal off? 6165 The life- preserver?"
6165Then if I am not your son, who am I?
6165Then you have n''t done any business yet?
6165Then you refuse to open the dam?
6165Then you think there''s no question but that they did it?
6165Then you''re not a Westerner by birth?
6165Then you''re not going now,--Dad?
6165They did?
6165They do n''t deal in cattle; do they?
6165They know you were hurt; do n''t they?
6165Think there are many of them?
6165Thinking of a storm?
6165Trouble, Dave?
6165Trouble? 6165 Trouble?"
6165Trying to see how your trick worked?
6165Was it-- was it any particular kind, Dave?
6165Was n''t there any one to help you?
6165Was there a note pinned to my dress? 6165 Was there any shootin''?"
6165Was there any trouble?
6165We?
6165Well, how do you think we''re coming on?
6165Well, son, did you get the bunch?
6165Well, son,began the ranch owner,"how did you make out?"
6165Well, what do yon want?
6165Well, what do you think of it?
6165Well, what do you want?
6165Well, what if I did?
6165Well, what''s the next move? 6165 Well?"
6165What about the horse?
6165What am I going to do? 6165 What are you doing there?"
6165What are you going to call it?
6165What are you going to do?
6165What are your plans?
6165What became of it?
6165What can it be?
6165What can we do?
6165What can you do?
6165What did he say?
6165What do you mean by getting in my way?
6165What do you mean by retaliation, Dad?
6165What do you mean, Dad?
6165What do you mean?
6165What do you mean?
6165What do you say, Pete?
6165What does it mean?
6165What does it mean?
6165What does that mean?
6165What for?
6165What for?
6165What gives you the right?
6165What is it?
6165What right? 6165 What was it?"
6165What was it?
6165What was it?
6165What will you do?
6165What''d he do, try to rope you?
6165What''s on?
6165What''s that?
6165What''s that?
6165What''s that?
6165What''s the matter with your fire? 6165 What''s the matter, Dave?"
6165What''s the next thing on the programme?
6165What''s up?
6165What''s your idea, Pete?
6165What?
6165Where is any of your property on Mr. Carson''s land?
6165Where is it now?
6165Where''s Gimp?
6165Where''s your father?
6165Whereabouts do you reckon them strays is hidin''?
6165Who are you, and what do you want? 6165 Who is he?"
6165Who''s talkin''to you?
6165Who''s that?
6165Who?
6165Whose game?
6165Why do n''t you get up?
6165Why do you say that, and how do you know?
6165Why not?
6165Why not?
6165Why so? 6165 Why so?"
6165Why water?
6165Why, did n''t I see him riding away as fast as his horse could gallop just a little while ago?
6165Why, son?
6165Why?
6165Will he?
6165Will they let you?
6165Will you, Pete? 6165 Wo n''t I know who I am?"
6165Wo n''t it eat back to the cattle?
6165Would it be easy to break away?
6165Wrong? 6165 Yes, Len and his father,""Do you know them?"
6165You an''he had some little fracas; did n''t you?
6165You did n''t; eh? 6165 You did?"
6165You mean he might try to be revenged on you for opening the dam?
6165You mean they have diverted some of your water?
6165You will; eh? 6165 You will?"
6165You''ll stop and get something to eat, Dave, wo n''t you, before you go back?
6165You-- you-- how do you know?
6165Your father?
6165Am I not your son?"
6165Am I?
6165And I wonder if I can turn them and drive them back alone?
6165And for what?
6165And now what am I going to do with you?"
6165And who am I?"
6165Are the cattle all right?"
6165Are you sure Len got enough?"
6165Bellmore?"
6165But I do n''t see any; do you?"
6165But just how old am I?"
6165But now, Pete, what are we going to do?
6165But we saw him start one fire; did n''t we?"
6165But what good would it do, Dave?"
6165But why do you look at me so strangely?"
6165CHAPTER XXI THE ESCAPE"What about that fire?"
6165CHAPTER XXIII THE CLEW"Dave, are you fit for a little ride this morning?"
6165Ca n''t Kurd stand it?"
6165Can I depend on you to make some arrangements with me, regarding your water rights?"
6165Could the engineer solve the problem?
6165Do n''t you think I''m making a pretty good cowpuncher?"
6165Do you think we''d better get right after them?"
6165Finally, however, as they dismounted to eat their lunch, Pete could not help asking:"Have any trouble with them, Dave?"
6165Have n''t I a right to ride it if I want to?"
6165His manner must have been strange and distracted, for Mr. Bellmore said:"What''s the matter, Dave?
6165How do you know Mr. Carson is n''t my father?"
6165How does that strike you?"
6165How should I know?
6165How was it made?"
6165I ca n''t help it, can I, if your cows tag along with our strays?"
6165I suppose I must have worn dresses, if I was so little at the time?"
6165I''ll ride up behind him, as I''m doing now, and you''ll head him off; is that it?"
6165Instinctively Pocus Pete did the same, and then Dave, pointing to the front, asked:"Is that a man or a cow?"
6165Is Whitey Wasson the only one who told you I-- that I was n''t Mr. Carson''s son?"
6165Is it possible?"
6165Is n''t that what you say, Dave?"
6165Is not Mr. Molick influential in these parts?"
6165Is something troubling you?"
6165Is there any objection?"
6165Now do you still refuse to open that dam?"
6165Now who was he?
6165Or would it still come on toward the cattle?
6165So there are two of them?"
6165Sprained ankle; eh?
6165The latter looked significantly at Molick, and remarked:"Seems to me you''re overstepping a bit; are n''t you?"
6165Was it last year I tried to fall over the cliff?"
6165Was n''t there any distinguishing mark?"
6165What are we going to do?
6165What are you hanging around here for now?"
6165What do you mean?
6165What do you mean?"
6165What do you mean?"
6165What do you mean?"
6165What evidence have you?"
6165What if he had to leave the place?
6165What right have you got to do it?"
6165What was that?"
6165What''s to be done?"
6165Where are you?"
6165Where?"
6165Why did you cut the posts of our special corral?
6165Why?"
6165Wonder how they made out?"
6165Would he be thrust aside, and not counted as one of the family?
6165Would it pause there, and divide?
6165You did n''t see him saw the posts; did you?"
6165You know that, do n''t you, Dave?"
6165You mean our strays; do n''t you?"
6165You mean the irrigation scheme you agreed to go into with me?"
6165You will stay; wo n''t you?"
6165You''re not more than twenty; are you, Dave?"
27095And did n''t our boys shoot back?
27095And how did it end?
27095And how did the Greaser respond to it all?
27095And why did you fire at us?
27095Any for me?
27095Any idea who they were, Slim?
27095Any letters for your father?
27095Any men with''em? 27095 Any quicksands?"
27095Anybody we know?
27095Anything doing, Dad?
27095Are we all going?
27095Are you going to start a regular camp at Spur Creek, Dad?
27095Are you ready?
27095Are you sure it''s cut?
27095Are you sure you can find your way back to your camp?
27095Are you sure your friend did n''t?
27095But does n''t it look like a bunch of cattle there?
27095But for why?
27095But how does he keep out of jail?
27095But how in the name of Zip Foster did you know where he had the deeds hidden?
27095But what sort of a case do you s''pose Diamond X has got, anyhow?
27095But what would his object be, and what was his game?
27095But what''s he doing here, and at night, and why did he run?
27095But what''s the next thing to be done?
27095But why did they call it a thunder beast?
27095But why do you think we''ll be over- run with sheep just because they''ve opened up the Indian lands?
27095But you are n''t going to sit down and let''em frisk you that way, are you, Dad?
27095But you did n''t get the ones you went after; did you?
27095But you do n''t know the names when you find them; do you?
27095Ca n''t nobody ride em?
27095Ca n''t you fence it in?
27095Could it be one of our regular herds?
27095Could n''t be any sheep herders coming so soon, to turn their nibblers on our land; could it?
27095Did they capture you and hold you for ransom?
27095Did they get much?
27095Did they take everything out of the safe, Dad?
27095Did you get your dad?
27095Did you get''em?
27095Did you hear that?
27095Did you see anything of sheep in your wanderings?
27095Did you_ smell_ any sheep, Professor?
27095Disease? 27095 Do n''t reckon you got any for me, have you?"
27095Do n''t you name them after they are found?
27095Do you mean Yellin''Kid?
27095Do you really think they mean to try and get pasturage here, Billee?
27095Do you really think you''ll find some fossil bones?
27095Do you reckon Del Pinzo is out now?
27095Do you suppose they''re trying to signal us?
27095Do you think he''s a sheep herder?
27095Do you think they''ll come back?
27095Do you?
27095Excuse for what?
27095For instance?
27095For what?
27095Has someone telephoned in that they''ve rounded up the thieves?
27095Hit?
27095How are you, Kid?
27095How did you come to disguise yourself like a Greaser, go off to the professor''s camp and get the deeds where Del Pinzo had hidden them? 27095 How do you like my disguise?"
27095How does it come he is working for the interests of these Greasers, some of whom may be citizens?
27095How many Greasers they got?
27095How you going to do it?
27095I come to ask why you are here in such force, evidently to stop any who might wish to cross to feed their stock on open range?
27095I reckon he means the quicksands shift-- is that it, Lanky?
27095I reckon there is, but why in the name of Tunket could n''t they call''em something shorter? 27095 I wonder if there is a ford here?"
27095I wonder what Professor Wright is doing?
27095In what direction was the wind?
27095Is it cut or broken?
27095Is it rustlers, Slim?
27095It means the sheep herders can come in then; does it?
27095Leave? 27095 Meaning, by birds, the Dinosaurs and the like?"
27095No luck, boys?
27095No? 27095 Not another Indian uprising, is it?"
27095Not even if we know they''re going to do it?
27095Now what are you going to do-- fight?
27095Of what?
27095Oh, did they find another of those monsters?
27095Oh, there are_ letters_, then, are there-- not just_ one_?
27095On purpose, do you mean?
27095Professor Wright having that rascal with him?
27095Reckon you can stand a fight?
27095Reg''lar man- killers?
27095Same old gang?
27095Say, are you making a sling shot?
27095Say, does n''t it look as though those first parties came around just to draw us off, so someone else could sneak in and rifle the safe?
27095See anything?
27095See some sign?
27095See something?
27095Seen him before-- what do you mean?
27095Shall I go for him in the flivver?
27095Shall we fire at the men, their horses or the sheep?
27095Shoot''em and drive''em back into the water if they try to swim across-- is that it?
27095So Del Pinzo will have me in court, will he?
27095Some of your cowboys disporting themselves?
27095Talk?
27095That would be what we''d do if we had it to do; would n''t we?
27095That you, Slim?
27095Then he''s out of jail again?
27095Then you do n''t believe his story?
27095Things are livening up a bit, are n''t they?
27095Think he''ll ever find''em?
27095Think we might catch''em to- day, Billee?
27095Think you''ll make it to- night?
27095Want any court plaster t''hold you down?
27095We''d better let your dad know-- what say?
27095Well, Billee, what do you think of it all?
27095Well, if they ca n''t make the sheep wade over they can swim''em, ca n''t they?
27095Well, what do you want?
27095Well, what we goin''to do about it?
27095Well, what''s the matter with''em stayin''on their own side of Spur Creek?
27095What about the sheep?
27095What about?
27095What are they heading this way for, then?
27095What are we going to do when they start to cross?
27095What are you on the track of now?
27095What did he say-- a bronco?
27095What did he want to come in and lead us off on a false trail for, when we was hot after the robbers?
27095What did they do?
27095What do you imagine it is?
27095What do you make of it, Bud?
27095What do you mean by that?
27095What do you mean? 27095 What do you mean?"
27095What do you mean?
27095What do you mean?
27095What do you mean?
27095What do you reckon it means?
27095What do you reckon the professor is doing, or was doing, over there?
27095What do you reckon they''re going to do?
27095What do you want?
27095What does that mean?
27095What good would it do Professor Wright to get hold of Dad''s papers proving ownership to the Spur Creek lands? 27095 What happened?"
27095What in the world are they up to?
27095What is it, Kid?
27095What is it?
27095What is it?
27095What makes you say that?
27095What makes you think so?
27095What makes you think they were Greasers?
27095What papers?
27095What say, fellows?
27095What sort of trouble?
27095What we want to do is to drive them back, is n''t if?
27095What wo n''t?
27095What you all looking at?
27095What you doin''in here, anyhow?
27095What you going to do?
27095What you got there, Sam?
27095What''ll we do with the sheep?
27095What''s doin''?
27095What''s doing?
27095What''s going on?
27095What''s new here?
27095What''s that?
27095What''s the best thing to do?
27095What''s the good word, Dad?
27095What''s the idea?
27095What''s the matter with you, Greaser?
27095What''s the matter, Dad?
27095What''s the matter, Dad?
27095What''s the matter, Slim?
27095What''s the matter?
27095What''s the matter?
27095What''s the matter?
27095What''s the matter?
27095What''s the matter?
27095What''s the trouble?
27095What''s up now?
27095What, for instance?
27095When does the land- grabbing start?
27095Where are they now?
27095Where did you come from, Nort?
27095Where have you been?
27095Where they going to get boats?
27095Where were they?
27095Who are you suspicious of?
27095Who is he?
27095Who was on the wire?
27095Who were they?
27095Why not?
27095Why that?
27095Why?
27095Why?
27095Wonder who it is that''s been after your dad''s cattle now?
27095Yellin''Kid is n''t any worse, is he?
27095You are n''t going to take the trail to- night, are you?
27095You did n''t hear anything about the fellows who took your papers then? 27095 You do n''t mean to say you believe Dr. Wright had any hand in this?"
27095You do n''t mind a little thing like a fight, do you?
27095You mean Del Pinzo''s old gang?
27095You mean drive''em through the creek?
27095You mean it was planned in advance?
27095You mean over the river?
27095You mean so they can jump in and get rid of themselves?
27095You mean the ones we just had a fight with?
27095You mean the sheep herders?
27095You mean what happened to- night, Bud?
27095You mean you''re on to the game?
27095You reckon he''s gone back to his gang to tell''em to get ready to come here?
27095You reckon it was them that cut the wire, do n''t you?
27095You say someone had been stealing your sheep?
27095You say the land belongs to_ Señor_ Merkel?
27095You there, Babe?
27095You think so?
27095You will have no sheep,_ señors_?
27095Your dad has n''t heard anything about his stolen papers, has he?
27095_ Friends?_questioned Mr. Merkel sharply.
27095An''where will we be then?"
27095And now was his explanation of how he happened to be in company with those believed to be sheep herders a good explanation?
27095And what good would it do''em just to cut a wire after we''d gotten the cattle away from''em?"
27095Are they likely to spread some disease among your cattle?"
27095Are you sure the papers are gone, Dad?"
27095Are you there?"
27095Bonnett?"
27095But how did they know Dad''s papers were in the safe?"
27095But how''d you happen to have those rubber bands, Bud?"
27095But they did n''t come with those pole trailers; so why would they make''em to go away with?
27095But who was behind the plot which had just succeeded so well?
27095But, gentlemen, what are we going to do?
27095Did you ever hear the word_ ornithology_?"
27095Did you see anything else suspicious, Professor-- or smell anything?"
27095How about Old Billee?"
27095How about you fellows?"
27095How did Red come to be on the job so quickly?"
27095How do you make that out?"
27095How they going to get the animals across so they can feed on this side?"
27095I wonder why they gave such long names to these prehistoric monsters, anyhow?"
27095Is there anything suspicious in the smell of sheep-- or the sight of them, for that matter?"
27095Is your trick up, Bud?"
27095Really?"
27095Really?"
27095So it can not be wondered at that there were more or less serious faces as men met and inquired one of the other:"How do you think it''s going?"
27095So you fear the advent of sheep; do you?
27095Still with each side standing on what it considered its rights, what else could be expected?
27095Then Bud broke out with:"What do you make of that?"
27095What are you going to do, Dad?"
27095What do you mean; go away?"
27095What do you want?"
27095What sort?"
27095What were they going to do?
27095What you doing?"
27095Where are you from?"
27095Who else?"
27095Who''s that?
27095Why had he led astray the pursuit of those who fired the shots that night?
27095Why had the scientist returned to Diamond X at the very time when the government opened the land to claimants?
27095Why would he want the land?
27095Wo n''t we, fellows?"
27095Wonder what time it is, anyhow?"
27095Would n''t it sound funny if we had to call a horse a Brontosaurus?"
27095You would n''t call hippopotamus a hard word; would you, boys?"
27095_ Sabe_?"
420A what?
420And the Cowardly Lion?
420And were you?
420And when you make a sign she will bring you to her in the Land of Oz?
420And-- and-- do you eat people?
420And-- pardon me for the foolish question-- but, are you all invisible?
420Are the bears invis''ble, too?
420Are these bears here?
420Are they real?
420Are we only half way up?
420Are you hungry?
420Are you sure?
420Are you sure?
420Are you surprised that you are unable to see the people of Voe?
420As dead as poss''ble would be pretty dead, would n''t it?
420But IS there any other place?
420But Jim knows his business all right-- don''t you, Jim?
420But did n''t you cut it almost too short?
420But how can you get down?
420But how would it help us to be able to fly?
420But tell me,said Dorothy,"how did such a brave Champion happen to let the bears eat him?
420But what am I going to eat?
420But where are the people?
420But why destroy my friends?
420But why did n''t you tell us at first?
420But why fight at all, in that case?
420But wo n''t they be veg''table, like everything else here?
420Ca n''t you mend them?
420Ca n''t you see us?
420Can he fight?
420Can your horse talk?
420Canary- birds?
420Could n''t you manage to hold me in your arms?
420Could we fly with them?
420Did he? 420 Did n''t you feel the ground shake?"
420Did the glass houses in your city grow, too?
420Did you ever see such little pigs before?
420Did you not wear green whiskers at one time?
420Did you see that, Dorothy?
420Do I like fish? 420 Do I?
420Do all your people grow on bushes?
420Do not all people grow upon bushes where you came from, on the outside of the earth?
420Do you eat?
420Do you happen to know whatever became of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow?
420Do you mean my kitten must be put in a grave?
420Do you mean that I''m a freak?
420Do you mean that Princess Ozma will see this cave in her enchanted picture, and see all of us here, and what we are doing?
420Do you see that big rock standing on the hillside yonder?
420Do you take me for a salamander?
420Do you take me for a tom- cat? 420 Do you take me for a weasel?
420Does it hurt to be invis''ble?
420Does the air bear up your weight?
420Does the dama- fruit grow on a low bush, and look something like a peach?
420For the second time?
420Have you a factory in this place?
420Have you come to take me to Hugson''s Ranch?
420Have you ever died yet?
420How CAN we''scape?
420How about the birds and beasts and fishes?
420How are your brains?
420How big is this hole?
420How can we do that?
420How can we go away?
420How did they happen to be so little?
420How did you happen to be shod with gold?
420How does it taste?
420How is Uncle Henry?
420How long did you rule the Emerald City, after I left here?
420How long do you live, after you are picked?
420How long will it take you to stop my breath?
420How long will you be with us?
420How old are you?
420How old is your mother?
420How?
420I live on the fat of the land-- don''t I, Ozma?
420If it makes you invis''ble, why do you eat it?
420If that is so,said the boy,"how could he do that wonderful trick with the nine tiny piglets?"
420In what way?
420Is Billina a girl?
420Is Mr. Hugson your uncle?
420Is it possible that you are a Real Horse?
420Is n''t it fine?
420Is n''t it funny?
420Is n''t she ripe now?
420Is n''t that a great deal?
420Is not the Real Horse a beautiful animal?
420Is that the way to treat my friends?
420Is this a fairy country?
420May I eat one of them?
420May we examine some of these articles?
420My thoughts are always--"Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?
420Neither stones nor people?
420Nine times?
420No?
420Oats? 420 Of course; ca n''t you see?"
420Of course; how else could I see it? 420 Oh; are you hungry?"
420Sir,said he,"why are you here, in the Land of the Mangaboos?"
420Suppose the stairs get steeper?
420Tell me, Eureka,said the Princess, gently:"did you eat my pretty piglet?"
420Tell us, dear, what do the creatures look like?
420That would be unlucky, would n''t it?
420Then why not race with the Sawhorse?
420Train in?
420Was Ozma once a boy?
420Was not the door closed?
420Well, what then?
420Well,said another piglet,"you are a wizard, are you not?"
420Were you ever before shut up in a cave, far under the earth, with no way of getting out?
420What are Gargoyles?
420What are those holes up there?
420What are you going to do with us?
420What are your products?
420What brought you back?
420What curious animal is that which is eating the grass on my lawn?
420What do you do?
420What do you mean by that?
420What do you want?
420What does all this mean, anyhow?
420What does that mean?
420What for?
420What good is it?
420What harm can the Gurgles do?
420What in the world is this?
420What is he good for?
420What is your name?
420What made them fly away?
420What shall we do now?
420What shall we do now?
420What sort of place is this?
420What was that?
420What were you when you were first alive?
420What will happen if she is guilty?
420What would you do?
420What''s that?
420What''s the matter with you, old man?
420What''s the use?
420What''s to become of me?
420What''s wrong?
420What, the hinges?
420Where are they?
420Where are they?
420Where are you?
420Where did you come from?
420Where did you grow?
420Where do you come from, then?
420Where does it lead to?
420Where in the world have you been, my lad?
420Where is Dorothy?
420Where is she?
420Where is she?
420Where is that Magic Belt?
420Where is the House of the Sorcerer?
420Where is your mother?
420Where shall we stay?
420Where''s my milk?
420Where? 420 Wherever have you been, Eureka?"
420Which wings must I flop first?
420Who accuses me?
420Who are they?
420Who built these lovely bridges?
420Who did you say it was?
420Who is Ozma?
420Who is this?
420Who said so?
420Who will be the jury?
420Why did you leave the surface of the earth?
420Why did you wickedly and viciously send the Rain of Stones to crack and break our houses?
420Why do n''t you walk down?
420Why do you not eat the damas?
420Why do you want me?
420Why have you dared to intrude your unwelcome persons into the secluded Land of the Mangaboos?
420Why not let them live?
420Why not?
420Why should n''t I?
420Why, where''s Eureka?
420Will it hurt?
420Will there be any more Rains?
420Will you try it, Zeb?
420Would such a gentle animal be guilty of eating a fellow creature? 420 Your Highness,"cried the Woggle- Bug, appealing to Ozma,"have I a mind''s eye, or have n''t I?"
420Am I talking?
420And if he was invis''ble, and the bears invis''ble, who knows that they really ate him up?"
420Are you guilty, or not guilty?"
420Are you not vegetable, also?"
420Are you ready?"
420But I did n''t see them go; did you?"
420But it''s a big hollow, is n''t it?"
420Can you match that pedigree, little girl?"
420Can you remember any breakfast that I''ve had today?"
420Can you talk?"
420Could n''t you, Zeb?"
420Do n''t you remember how the Champion escaped them by shouting his battle- cry?"
420Do n''t you see their terrible eyes?"
420Do you ever make mistakes?"
420Do you like fish?"
420Eh?
420Have n''t you heard of him?"
420Have you breakfasted, Sir Horse?"
420Have you them here with you?"
420He has won the race, and won it fairly; but what can a horse of flesh do against a tireless beast of wood?"
420I can see her, in my mind''s eye--""What''s that?"
420I mean, will you be good to us, or do you intend to eat us?"
420Is n''t it funny?"
420Is not a Wizard something like a Sorcerer?"
420Is there nothing that is decent to eat in this palace?"
420Jump out and fight?"
420Now was the Wizard''s turn, so he smiled upon the assemblage and asked:"Will somebody kindly loan me a hat?"
420On the roof?"
420Otherwise--""What will happen otherwise?"
420Please, Mr. Wizard, may I eat just one of the fat little piglets?
420Presently she asked:"Why did your mother tie your tails?"
420So what could I do but tell"what happened to the Wizard afterward"?
420That''s REAL magic, Mr. Wizard; is n''t it?
420The trembling servants sent for the Royal Steward, who came in haste and said:"What would your Highness like for dinner?"
420Then Jim exclaimed:"For goodness sake, what sort of a being are you?"
420Then Jim suddenly asked:"Are there any horses in Oz?"
420Then he asked:"What is an earthquake?"
420Then the Princess spoke in a stern voice:"Prisoner, what have you to say for yourself?
420Then, after a moment''s thought, she asked:"Are we friends or enemies?
420This is a nice scrape you''ve got me into, is n''t it?"
420Were you ever with a circus, brother?"
420What do you call it?"
420What else can you do?"
420What is your sorcery good for if it can not tell us the truth?"
420What''s going to become of us now?"
420Where did you find my missing pet, Nick Chopper?"
420Why are you so bad?"
420Why destroy me?"
420Will you buy it, my dear?"
420Will you kindly tell us which way your mother went to get on top the earth?"
420Will your Sorcerer die?"
420Wizard?"
420Wizard?"
420Would you like it again?"
420You''ve been to Australia, have n''t you?"
420and what can I do but obey their commands?
420are YOU here again?"
420cried Dorothy,"did you eat the bones?"
420he said, seeing her,"are you Dorothy Gale?"
420said the Wizard,"will somebody please loan me a handkerchief?"
420said the Wizard;"are there really people in this room?"
6573A boiler, eh?
6573A watch tower?
6573All ready?
6573And I wo n''t sit by and have my cattle stolen; will we, fellows?
6573And do you know what I''d like to do? 6573 And how are we going to get them out?"
6573And was Four Eyes with you then?
6573And were you in the United States cavalry all the while?
6573And what for?
6573And where are they?
6573And who are they signalling to?
6573Any of your men over in that direction?
6573Any trace of which way they went?
6573Any volcanoes?
6573Anybody hurt?
6573Anyhow, they got away with a bunch of your steers, Bud, an''now what are we goin''t''do? 6573 Anything like a Triceratops?"
6573Are n''t you going after the rustlers?
6573Are there always rustlers to worry about on a ranch?
6573Are there any clues over there, Billee, to give us a lead?
6573Are they gittin''ready t''come at us here, or are they leavin''?
6573Are they spelling out a message in Morse or Continental code?
6573Are we all ready?
6573Are we going back to camp?
6573Are we going on their trail?
6573Are you hit, Billee?
6573Are you sure he was here?
6573Babe has a broken leg in a fight with robbers?
6573But I''ve never seen any volcanoes around here; have you, fellows?
6573But how did he get out?
6573But how''d you know who I was?
6573But how?
6573But what''s going on now?
6573But what''s th''use runnin''your head in a bee''s nest if yon can git th''honey some other way?
6573But where''s that mouth organ you said you found?
6573But where?
6573But who was monkeying around here as we rode back to camp? 6573 But why should he slip out this way?
6573Ca n''t we do both?
6573Can he do it?
6573Could any of the reservation Indians be on the rampage and have set it?
6573Could it have been a chance shot?
6573Could it have been either Snake or Yellin''Kid, riding back and breaking that bottle over our heads, to show what good shots they were?
6573Dad, ca n''t we clean out these rascals?
6573Did it scald you?
6573Did they get anything?
6573Did they get away?
6573Did they get many?
6573Did they get you, Billee?
6573Did they leave any trail?
6573Did they try to drill it for an explosive?
6573Did you notice anything about it?
6573Did you notice they did n''t have a one with them, Slim?
6573Did you see any of''em, Buck Tooth?
6573Did you see any one suspicious?
6573Do n''t you believe what he says?
6573Do you know him? 6573 Do you mean that we have a few left?"
6573Do you s''pose it can be Old Billee, or Yellin''Kid signalling to us?
6573Do you s''pose this Four Eyes saw the rustlers?
6573Do you suppose that signalling could have meant an Indian uprising?
6573Do you think something will happen?
6573Do you think that''s what the game is?
6573Do you think they know we''re here?
6573Do you think they were shooting at-- us?
6573Ever ride for Double Z?
6573Fooled us? 6573 Hank Fisher; eh?"
6573Have you discovered something from the tower?
6573Hit?
6573Hot work; eh, boys?
6573How about his horse?
6573How about nights?
6573How about you?
6573How am I going to get back up there, though?
6573How can we stop it, Bud?
6573How could we?
6573How do you know there has n''t been a row?
6573How do you mean?
6573How many cattle do you think they took?
6573How they coming, Slim?
6573How''d you think of it?
6573How?
6573How?
6573Hu?
6573I step on somet''ing?
6573I wonder if that meant anything?
6573I wonder if the poor animals hurried in here for water, and could n''t drink it because it was hot?
6573I wonder if they knifed him?
6573I wonder if we''ll hear any more?
6573I wonder what we''ll find after daylight?
6573Is n''t it taking a chance, riding out to look for some one who may have fired at us purposely?
6573Just what are you aimin''t''do, son?
6573Kill him?
6573Lantern?
6573Looking for a place?
6573Looking for gold?
6573Not What is it then?
6573Now we''ve found the rascals, ca n''t we go in and clean''em up?
6573Now,remarked Bud, talking the matter over with Slim,"what is the best plan?"
6573Oh, they''re doing that; are they?
6573Oh, you''re back; are you, Bud?
6573Oh, you''re leavin''it t''me, are you?
6573One of ours could n''t have glanced, could it?
6573Or geysers?
6573Ready?
6573Remember?
6573Ride around to the other entrance?
6573Robbers? 6573 Rustlers, eh?"
6573S''pose they''re there yet?
6573Say, what do you think of that, anyhow?
6573Say, why do n''t you get Zip Foster over to help chase the rustlers?
6573Say, would n''t it be a good thing to capture him?
6573See a snake?
6573Slim has seen Snake coming along this last three minutes; have n''t you, Slim?
6573Slim? 6573 Such as what- like?"
6573That''s all right for us getting inside that crater,observed Dick,"but what about our horses?
6573The evidence?
6573The question is, now, how can we get in there?
6573The tunnel door does n''t show any signs of an attempt having been made to bust it; does it?
6573Then do you think we should keep on?
6573Then how can he be such a wonderful roper?
6573Then no very great harm will be done; will there?
6573Then what can we do?
6573Then you are n''t going to chase over to where they drove off your cattle right away; is that it, Bud?
6573Then you saw some rustlers from it?
6573They put soap in some to make''em spout, do n''t they?
6573Was that a black one?
6573Watch tower?
6573We are n''t going back, are we, until we get Del Pinzo and his gang?
6573We rounded up as many as we could, and--"You mean you rounded up the_ rustlers_?
6573We were, after you built that signal lantern on the watch tower-- you did do that, did n''t you?
6573What are they?
6573What can I do?
6573What do we care how it looks, if it does the trick?
6573What do you imagine they really plan to do, and who are they?
6573What do you mean?
6573What do you mean?
6573What do you mean?
6573What do you mean?
6573What do you think of it, Bud?
6573What had we better do?
6573What if they do? 6573 What in the world is it?"
6573What in the world is this?
6573What is it?
6573What is it?
6573What is it?'' 6573 What makes Hank Fisher and that Double Z bunch so sore at you?"
6573What makes you say that?
6573What makes you think so?
6573What started it? 6573 What there, Bud?"
6573What time is it?
6573What was that?
6573What you aimin''to do?
6573What you goin''t''stop for?
6573What you going to do about your horse?
6573What''d you want to go and bust that bottle for, Nort?
6573What''s all gone?
6573What''s become of Pocut Pete?
6573What''s he doing?
6573What''s that?
6573What''s that?
6573What''s that?
6573What''s the advice?
6573What''s the good of riding over just to look at the place where they drove off our cattle? 6573 What''s the idea?"
6573What''s the idea?
6573What''s the matter, Kid?
6573What''s the matter?
6573What''s the matter?
6573What''s the next move?
6573What''s wrong?
6573What''s''the matter? 6573 What, son?"
6573Where are the cattle?
6573Where does it go to?
6573Where have they gone?
6573Where in the world did he go?
6573Where in the world is he?
6573Where were you riding_ to_?
6573Where''s Dick?
6573Where''s the fire?
6573Where?
6573Who was it?
6573Who you reckon it is?
6573Who''s there?
6573Who''s up on the watch tower with a lantern?
6573Who; the rustlers? 6573 Who?"
6573Why did n''t you shoot?
6573Why, did you see a black rabbit?
6573Why, we are going to keep on, are n''t we?
6573Yes, do n''t you know me?
6573You boys going back after grub?
6573You can turn your pony into the corral,he added,"and we''ll give you something to eat-- unless you''ve had breakfast?"
6573You did what?
6573You do n''t s''pose I''m down here for fun, do you?
6573You mean him?
6573You mean it wo n''t be safe to ride up to''em and fight''em?''?
6573You mean it wo n''t be safe to ride up to''em and fight''em?''?
6573You mean sort of spy''em out?
6573You mean the Double Z bunch?
6573You mean the rustlers?
6573You say your black horse got out?
6573Among them was Snake Purdee, and his eyes sparkled with hidden emotion as he inquired:"Did you see any rattlers?
6573And as Bud leaned over to look at the heavy door he saw something that caused him to ask:"Were these here before the attempted robbery, Dad?"
6573And from then on we had some rousing times; did n''t we, fellows?"
6573And what events portended?
6573And who was doing that signalling?"
6573Are we goin''t''sit back an''let''em laugh at us?"
6573Are you all here?"
6573Are you hurt-- or your horse?"
6573Are you just waking up to that, Bud?"
6573At Diamond X?"
6573But I notice neither of you ever back out of that job; do you?"
6573But do n''t you think it would be a good thing if we could get rid of this Del Pinzo gang for good?"
6573But how else do you account for it?"
6573But just when Nort was directing his attention to the signal flashes Dick, who had ridden on a little ahead, suddenly called:"Is that a fire?"
6573But say, what can we do toward getting these robbers?"
6573But what does it mean?"
6573But what''s that got to do with this?"
6573But what''s the verdict, Snake?"
6573But where does this lead?"
6573But who do you think is signalling?"
6573CHAPTER II A CURIOUS INSTRUMENT"What''s the matter, Bud?"
6573CHAPTER XIII THE SIGNAL"What''s the matter?"
6573CHAPTER XVIII THE BOILING SPRING"What''s that?"
6573Can Slim and the others get here in time to start in the morning?"
6573Did Babe shoot any of''em?"
6573Did he do anything?
6573Did you ever read Kipling''s''Drums of the Fore and Aft''?"
6573Did you get on any trail of the rustlers?"
6573For a figure came to the flap and a challenging voice called:"Who''s there?"
6573Get on their trail?"
6573Have you got ponies enough for them?"
6573Heard anything from Double Z?"
6573How about it?
6573How much did they get?
6573How?"
6573However, what''s th''use gassin''about it?
6573I suppose I can use another?"
6573I wonder which end you blow in?"
6573I wonder why they did n''t drive off the whole herd while they were at it?"
6573If it does we''ll have to fight''em, wo n''t we?"
6573Is n''t that a man on the trail?"
6573Is n''t that enough to happen?"
6573It''s all right to say so, but how you going to work it?"
6573One of Mr. Merkel''s ranches?"
6573Or was it a joke?
6573Remember, Nort?"
6573Seen anybody?"
6573This is reason enough, is n''t it?
6573What are you going to do, Bud?
6573What did it all mean?
6573What say?"
6573What we going to do, Dick?"
6573What you doing down there?"
6573What''s the row, Buck?"
6573When you going to start?"
6573Where are the steers?"
6573Where is he?"
6573Where''d he go?"
6573Who are you and where are you going?"
6573Who were they?"
6573Why could n''t he be decent about it an''make it one?"
6573Why not build one at our camp-- or up on the side of the hill back of the reservoir?
6573Why not?
6573You mean to build a sort of high platform up by the reservoir, Dick?"
6573You remember Dr. Thompson using one of these, do n''t you?"
6573You see anybody out here?"
27093And are they running off your dad''s cattle now?
27093And ca n''t we circle around the cattle?
27093And does this Del Pinzo do that?
27093And how many are trying to rush you?
27093And if you do n''t?
27093And would n''t it be wonderful if there should be a diamond mine on our ranch? 27093 Any of you boys ever see that outfit before?"
27093Any special reason why they should shoot you up?
27093Are these your cattle?
27093Are they trying to brand your cattle over again, Bud?
27093Are we getting licked?
27093Are we prisoners?
27093Are you all right, fellows?
27093Are you sure Dick''s all right?
27093Are you sure he stopped here?
27093Bad as all that; is it, Slim?
27093But are you going to be able to direct us how to find Diamond X ranch?
27093But have you any idea what their game is, boys?
27093But have you found out what it''s all about?
27093But how''d they get here, and what made him try that outlaw?
27093But if they were after gold, why would they deny it?
27093But what are you after, anyhow?
27093But what do you s''pose this all means?
27093But what do you think of those cattle?
27093But what has that to do with rustling Diamond X cattle?
27093But what in the name of sour dough biscuits are they doing?
27093But where are the rustlers?
27093But where are they?
27093But where did it go? 27093 But why were my two nephews held as prisoners in your camp?"
27093But you would n''t think such men as these two professors would frame it up to be cattle rustlers; would you?
27093Ca n''t I?
27093Ca n''t Nort and Dick come with me, dad?
27093Ca n''t we come?
27093Ca n''t we go, dad?
27093Ca n''t we go, too?
27093Ca n''t we have guns?
27093Ca n''t we join the posse?
27093Ca n''t we take a hand?
27093Can you manage, Bud?
27093Can you send help to him?
27093Cattle rustlers; eh, Bud?
27093Caught them?
27093Could he be one of the rustlers?
27093Did n''t you get your fill on Tartar, and have n''t you seen a real man- fight first crack out of the box?
27093Did n''t you see that bunch of Greasers?
27093Did they harm you at all?
27093Did you find''em?
27093Did you get a look at''em, Chot?
27093Did you get the rustlers, Dad?
27093Did you meet the professor?
27093Did you see any of''em?
27093Did you see who they were?
27093Did you send Del Pinzo''s men off to get more of our cattle just now?
27093Do n''t you fellows know any better than to let a tenderfoot ride Tartar?
27093Do n''t you think he had anything to do with trying to drive off your cattle?
27093Do they always howl that way?
27093Do what?
27093Do you have things like this happen every day, Bud?
27093Do you know what I think?
27093Do you mean that you''re keeping us here because you''re afraid we''ll tell something about you?
27093Do you mean to say you have a telephone?
27093Do you mean to say,began the owner of the Diamond X ranch,"that you only wanted to use my cattle as you might use oxen-- as draft animals?"
27093Do you think one of those men-- Professor Wright or Professor Blair-- tried to snake me off?
27093Do you think we have your steers-- that we are_ rustlers_?
27093Does he get that way often?
27093Does n''t this look like they''d been digging for gold?
27093Earmarks?
27093Eh? 27093 Find''em, Babe?"
27093Go back? 27093 Got your gun, Dick?"
27093Greasers are Mexicans, are n''t they?
27093Grub ready?
27093Guess we can take it a little faster now, ca n''t we?
27093Had n''t we better change our clothes?
27093Have you eaten?
27093How long''ll we wait?
27093How many in your bunch?
27093How''d you come to find us?
27093Hurt?
27093Hurt?
27093I guess you''re my cousins; are n''t you?
27093I mean does n''t your ranch lie over there?
27093I wonder if any rustlers will come here?
27093I wonder if we can find it again?
27093I wonder if, after all, those professors can be hunting gold?
27093I wonder what he thinks of us?
27093I wonder what it all means-- back there?
27093Indians?
27093Is it Babe?
27093Is it a real fight?
27093Is n''t that great?
27093Is that one of them slidin''_ horns_ you blow your lungs out on?
27093Is this Double Z land?
27093Is this true?
27093Just what are you going to do?
27093Just what sort of game is going on here?
27093Kill who? 27093 Killed?
27093Killed?
27093Know how to shoot?
27093Lit out, you mean?
27093Lost, eh?
27093No got a right to sleep?
27093No, but was n''t it rotten that my horse had to stumble just as I was going to pot one of''em?
27093Now do be careful, wo n''t you?
27093Now?
27093Oh, it''s you; is it?
27093Oh, why did n''t I bring mine?
27093Oh, you are from Circle T ranch, are you not?
27093One of our cowboys? 27093 Over by Square M?"
27093Rustling? 27093 S''pose he''ll get any of''em?"
27093Say, where are we?
27093See suthin''?
27093So Del Pinzo got away after all, did he?
27093Such as what, for instance?
27093Suppose we do n''t stay?
27093Suppose we ride over and see if there''s been any more trouble at the professor''s camp?
27093That professor man said so, but----"But was he telling the truth?
27093That''s the camp, down in there; is n''t it?
27093The cattle or our cowboys?
27093The only thing is, can we knock one over with our guns?
27093The professor?
27093Then how''d you come to let this fellow on? 27093 Then why are they keeping so blamed secret about it for?"
27093Then you have n''t heard the news?
27093They ca n''t hope to run off any under our eyes, can they?
27093Up to tricks like that, are they?
27093Was that his death cry, Bud? 27093 Was that one of the boys?"
27093We can take a hand_ then_, ca n''t we?
27093Well, fellows, are you satisfied with what you saw and what you did, for a start?
27093Well, if you like it,began Bud,"I s''pose----""Like it?"
27093Well, was he in the secret, too?
27093Well, what do you think of it?
27093Well, what''s your theory?
27093Were we dreaming, or did we really see something?
27093Were you-- er-- looking for me?
27093What are they doing?
27093What are those cowboys riding around the cattle for?
27093What are we going to do?
27093What are you pulling out of that hole?
27093What do you aim to do?
27093What do you mean, slippin''all over creation?
27093What do you mean? 27093 What do you mean?"
27093What do you mean?
27093What do you reckon it is?
27093What do you think of those fellows, anyhow?
27093What does it all mean, anyhow?
27093What does it all mean?
27093What does it mean?
27093What else could they be?
27093What for-- have we got to quiet a stampede?
27093What for?
27093What for?
27093What herd, dad?
27093What if our friends come to rescue us?
27093What is it, Bud?
27093What is there to shoot?
27093What makes you think so?
27093What makes you think so?
27093What news?
27093What right have you got to hold us here? 27093 What secret?"
27093What started the row?
27093What started''em off, Bud?
27093What then?
27093What''s blurring a brand?
27093What''s matter?
27093What''s mavericks?
27093What''s queer?
27093What''s that-- a wolf? 27093 What''s that?"
27093What''s that?
27093What''s that?
27093What''s the matter of him-- locoed?
27093What''s the matter with doing it here?
27093What''s the matter, Babe?
27093What''s the matter? 27093 What''s the matter?"
27093What''s the matter?
27093What''s the matter?
27093What''s the matter?
27093What''s the row?
27093What''s_ pronto_?
27093What?
27093When are you going to try it?
27093Where are we?
27093Where does he hang out?
27093Where have you been? 27093 Where you headin'', Bud?"
27093Where''s Dick? 27093 Where?"
27093Which way you going to ride?
27093Who broke the fence?
27093Who did it; Greasers or some of that outfit?
27093Who is he?
27093Who is it? 27093 Who''s Zip Foster?"
27093Who''s that girl?
27093Who?
27093Why did n''t you write? 27093 Why not?"
27093Why not?
27093Why not?
27093Why not?
27093Why not?
27093Why, what have we done except to help you when you needed it? 27093 Will he come back here?''
27093Will it be safe?
27093Will they stampede?
27093Will we need our guns?
27093Wo n''t the rustlers see these and skip out?
27093Wolf? 27093 Wonder if he met Babe?"
27093Wonder what''s going on?
27093Wonder where he had been?
27093Would Zip Foster know what all this meant?
27093You boys all right?
27093You found everything all right, at my camp?
27093You mean they may have taken''em_ themselves_?
27093You say you''re going to send over some liniment?
27093You''d say they were hunting for something, would n''t you?
27093You-- you''re going to keep us here?
27093Your cattle?
27093_ Cattle rustling?_murmured Professor Blair.
27093A prairie wolf?"
27093All right here?"
27093And as the other lad obeyed, and shook himself together, limping over toward Bud the latter asked:"Are you hurt?"
27093Are they beating us?"
27093Are you hurt?"
27093Besides, you did n''t hear any shooting; did you?"
27093But I wonder if they''re going to starve us; and what''s become of our ponies?"
27093But I''m not worried because we''re here; are you?"
27093But Nort could not forego the question:"How''d they do it?"
27093But are n''t you off your road?"
27093But ca n''t you come out next year?"
27093But say, I wonder what Babe''s doing, anyhow?
27093But will it be worth while-- that''s the question?
27093CHAPTER IX"WHAT DOES IT MEAN?"
27093CHAPTER XIV THE STAMPEDE"Well, what do you make of it?"
27093CHAPTER XVII THE NIGHT CAMP"Well, what do you know about that?"
27093CHAPTER XVIII QUEER OPERATIONS"Feel sleepy?"
27093Can you send us help?"
27093Did Babe shoot one?"
27093Did you think we intended to_ keep_ them?"
27093Give me a can of them sweet, yaller peaches,''Cause why?
27093Give me a can of them sweet, yaller peaches,''Cause why?
27093Got your guns, boys?"
27093Have I your permission to continue the use of your cattle as a hoisting medium?"
27093Have you met her?"
27093Hope I did n''t ruffle you any?"
27093How are all your friends?"
27093How''d you get here?
27093How''d you make out, boys?"
27093I wonder what they are up to, anyhow?"
27093Like an echo came his brother''s question:"Was somebody killed?"
27093Nort spurred up alongside of his cousin and brother, and, as he did so he yelled:"What you s''pose started''em off, Bud?"
27093Or, granting that it was known he had it, would you have imagined that he would use it as he did?
27093Riding up to the scientists, who seemed dazed by what had taken place, Mr. Merkel sternly demanded:"What does this mean?"
27093Several of these horsemen knew the Diamond X outfit, and when one man clattered past on his horse Mr. Merkel cried:"What''s up?"
27093What are you after, anyhow?
27093What did it all mean?
27093What do they do it for?"
27093What happened?
27093What outfit does he ride for?"
27093What right have you to keep us prisoners here and take our guns?"
27093What sort of help do you need?"
27093What was the queer secret of the professors, a secret that, somehow, seemed to involve Diamond X?
27093What you doing?"
27093What''s down in that hole, and what is it that is ten million years old?"
27093What''s going on here?"
27093What''s going on?"
27093What''s that, Bud?"
27093What''s the matter?
27093What''s this game anyhow?
27093What''s your trouble?"
27093Where are they, anyhow?"
27093Where are they?"
27093Where have I heard that word before?"
27093Where''s your trunks?
27093Who did that?"
27093Who is he, anyhow?"
27093Who would have supposed that Nort carried a bottle of paregoric?
27093Why not try to locate that bunch of cattle we''re after?
27093With a swallow or two, to wet his parched lips and fear- dried throat, Dick asked in a whisper:"What-- what was that?"
27093You did n''t see him, did you?"
27093You have n''t seen them; have you?
27093You know a lot-- don''t you?"
27093You know''em?"
27093asked Dick,"and where''s the main herd?
27094''Tain''t a joke; is it?
27094A warning?
27094All ready?
27094And is this where we are to camp and ranch it?
27094And suppose we find the second branch stream now-- what will we do?
27094And was he, or Del Pinzo, in our camp last night?
27094And what''s that funny smell?
27094And when we get to the other end and find the water running into the pipe at the dam in Pocut River, what then?
27094And you did n''t find it?
27094Any pie, Nell?
27094Anybody been around, Buck?
27094Anything to do with this?
27094Are we going to ride all night?
27094Are you going on back to Diamond X, Babe?
27094Are you hurt?
27094Are you sure it stopped running?
27094Are you sure?
27094As bad as that?
27094Bunks all right?
27094But are we sure that the water now goes to Flume Valley?
27094But ca n''t we save him?
27094But how can they?
27094But how?
27094But if Hank Fisher had any rights that we violated, why did n''t he go to law about it?
27094But if we have luck we can clear that off; ca n''t we?
27094But is n''t there some place where you can climb up?
27094But suppose we all get there, and the water begins to come back?
27094But tell me,went on Bud,"did the water stop at the river end, Slim?
27094But what all happened?
27094But what are you lads doing so far from Diamond X?
27094But what happened to Nort?
27094But what has happened over at Square M?
27094But what set him up to such vile work?
27094But what''s your questions, Bud? 27094 But where did he disappear to?"
27094But where did he go?
27094But where did they go?
27094But where is Del Pinzo?
27094But why does n''t it do it all the while?
27094But why does n''t the water reach us?
27094But why try to puzzle this out until we get something better to work on? 27094 But, speaking of grub, when do we eat, Bud?"
27094Ca n''t we get those rascals?
27094Can we look after five hundred more steers?
27094Can you get any fish_ here_?
27094Can you get off and tie him, Nort?
27094Could he have fallen into any hole or gully?
27094Could they drive off any of your cattle?
27094Del Pinzo did n''t stay long in jail; did he?
27094Did dad say you were to help me over in Flume Valley?
27094Did you do it on purpose?
27094Did you find out anything over there?
27094Did you hear that about a fuse?
27094Did you leave this here?
27094Did you see anybody who might have written this?
27094Did you shoot somebody?
27094Disappointed? 27094 Do n''t you like my singin''?"
27094Do you mean Hank Fisher, or Del Pinzo and his crowd, will blow it up?
27094Do you really think it means anything?
27094Do you see him?
27094Do you think he had anything to do with the break in the pipe?
27094Do you think he left that?
27094Do you think he takes''dope,''or medicine of some sort?
27094Do you think that would be safe?
27094Do you think them Hatchet- texts have sneaked in and took it?
27094Do you think they really meant to drown us or blow us up?
27094Do you want to back out?
27094Do you want to start the cattle off again? 27094 Does it only work two ways?"
27094Does n''t that sound like rushing water?
27094Does n''t this sort of set you fellows back so you want to give up ranching?
27094For what?
27094Getting tired of the game?
27094Git out th''wrong side of th''saddle this mornin''?
27094Got t''double up, eh?
27094Granting that it has, who sent the warning?
27094Has Hank or Del Pinzo anything to do with that?
27094Has Nort or Dick lost their bottle of paregoric?
27094Has dad lost any more?
27094Has he been infecting your cattle?
27094Has it really struck here-- the same disease that was among dad''s cattle?
27094Have n''t you run him off the ranch yet?
27094Hear about the racket over at our place?
27094How are you going to find the break?
27094How do you know?
27094How many cattle you got?
27094How many head''s he goin''t''send here, Bud?
27094How shunted?
27094How you going to find that?
27094How''s that?
27094How?
27094Hurry, Billee? 27094 I mean,"he added quickly,"will that be th''safest way t''try an''save Nort?
27094I wonder how many of them there are?
27094I wonder what''s inside that tunnel where the old watercourse runs? 27094 I wonder who built this secret water gate, and the lever that operates it?"
27094I wonder-- I just wonder-- if this has anything to do with the threat we received?
27094Investigate what?
27094Is it a germ disease?
27094Is n''t it takin''a chance?
27094Is n''t the pipe running?
27094Is n''t there any water at all?
27094Is n''t there some place-- some rocky ledge-- where you can find a footing? 27094 Is some one else coming?"
27094Is that a threat?
27094Is there any history of the stream that waters our valley?
27094Is there some old Mexican grain mill under here that has a water- wheel, sluices and gates?
27094Me? 27094 More mysterious warnings?"
27094No preventative measures?
27094Now they''re raisin''ructions again; be they?
27094Oh, but ca n''t we do something?
27094Oh-- you-- say, did you hear anything then?
27094One is, what effect has the turning of that lever we worked on the main stream? 27094 One of ours?"
27094One of the Double Z bunch?
27094One of them fly boys?
27094Only a_ few_?
27094Or stoppage?
27094Over to Double Z?
27094Rising?
27094Run who off?
27094Rustlers?
27094Say, where can you get a book like that?
27094Say, who is Zip Foster anyhow?
27094See anything of anybody around there? 27094 Shut off the irrigation water?
27094So_ that''s_ the game?
27094Stay there all night; will we?
27094Suppose it covers the rock?
27094Suppose the whole tunnel fills?
27094Sure you''re not hurt?
27094That you, Bud?
27094That you, Snake?
27094That''s just the point, where does it go?
27094That? 27094 The pipe line?"
27094The water''s here, ai n''t it?
27094The way this stream is running now,he resumed,"would n''t put any water into our reservoir, would it?"
27094Them two tenderfeet comin''out to Diamond X ag''in?
27094Then the pipe line is your only hope?
27094Then the water is running again?
27094There is n''t any danger-- I mean to humans; is there?
27094Trouble?
27094Was he really trying to cut out those initials?
27094Was it a man?
27094We want to see what happened, and where this water goes to when it disappears so suddenly; do n''t we?
27094Well, are you ready to go back?
27094Well, might as well prepare for the worst and hope for the best,laughed Dick, while Nort inquired:"Why do n''t you tell us more about Zip Foster?"
27094Well, tell Ed-- is he here now?
27094Well, what are we going to do next?
27094What are they?
27094What are we going to do?
27094What black rabbit was that?
27094What could we do with a boat in that stream, which is hardly three feet wide in places?
27094What day is it?
27094What do you make of it?
27094What do you mean?
27094What do you plan to do?
27094What do you think of Pocut Pete?
27094What does it mean?
27094What does it say?
27094What does that mean?
27094What else but the desire of Hank Fisher to see our stock- raising experiment fail?
27094What for?
27094What glass?
27094What happened? 27094 What have you done?"
27094What idea?
27094What in th''world happened?
27094What is it?
27094What is it?
27094What is it?
27094What is it?
27094What is it?
27094What is it?
27094What kind?
27094What made him talk that way then?
27094What man?
27094What rabbit is that?
27094What racket?
27094What was dad''s message?
27094What was he doing-- trying to cut more warts off your cattle?
27094What yo''aimin''t''do?
27094What you fellers doin''with th''water?
27094What you mean?
27094What''s bit you?
27094What''s bosh?
27094What''s struck you?
27094What''s that funny smell?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s that?
27094What''s the idea?
27094What''s the idea?
27094What''s the matter, Buck?
27094What''s the matter?
27094What''s the matter?
27094What''s the matter?
27094What''s the matter?
27094What''s the matter?
27094What''s the matter?
27094What''s the next move?
27094What''s the next thing to do?
27094What''s the situation over there now?
27094What''s this?
27094What''s up over there?
27094What''s what?
27094What''s wrong, Buck, you ride so_ pronto_ like?
27094What''s your rush, Bud? 27094 What-- a big fish?"
27094What? 27094 What?"
27094What?
27094What?
27094What?
27094When did it start to stop?
27094Where are we going?
27094Where did you smell it, Bud?
27094Where''s everybody, anyhow? 27094 Who are they?"
27094Who else but the man who does n''t want to see any water diverted from Pocut River?
27094Who is he?
27094Who is he?
27094Who was he?
27094Who was it?
27094Who you reckon it is?
27094Who''s that down at camp?
27094Who''s that up there?
27094Who''s that, Buck? 27094 Who''s that?"
27094Who''s there?
27094Who''s there?
27094Who''s there?
27094Who?
27094Who?
27094Why do n''t you say_ our_ cattle?
27094Why is n''t it suspicious?
27094Why not investigate and see where the stoppage is, Bud?
27094Why not?
27094Why not?
27094Why not?
27094Why not?
27094Why not?
27094Why not?
27094Why would n''t it be there?
27094Why, has anyone?
27094Why?
27094Will his heels need clippin'', Snake?
27094Will it be safe?
27094Will it be safe?
27094Will we-- will we ever find him?
27094Will you do that?
27094You catchum dead man?
27094You comin''back here?
27094You do n''t reckon it could be Buck Tooth, do you?
27094You mean Aztecs?
27094You mean go through the tunnel?
27094You mean stopped for good?
27094You mean the epidemic may run through all my stock?
27094You mean we ca n''t prove they dropped it here during the raid last night?
27094You no shut off water in pipe; eh?
27094You say there''s stock there now?
27094You say you''ve been out looking for strays?
27094You were shooting at them, were you?
27094And then, as the lad righted himself and limped over to catch his steed, he cried:"What in the name of the petrified prune pie was that, Billee?"
27094And what''s to hinder this having been dropped by some cowboy who was merely riding over our range?"
27094And, a little later when some of the steers broke into a run, Nort exclaimed:"Are they stampeding again?"
27094Anything suspicious?"
27094Are you hungry?
27094Bud saw something else, for as he rode ahead he called:"What''s he doing?"
27094But I''d like to know what that roaring is?"
27094But I''m not expected t''come with you to- night; am I?
27094But is she running?"
27094But we did have some excitement the time those professor chaps pulled that_ Trombone_ out of the ground; did n''t we, Bud?"
27094But what causes the epidemic, Doc?
27094CHAPTER III THE WARNING"Will it be safe to leave our camp alone, like this?"
27094CHAPTER VIII DRY AGAIN"What the mischief''s that?"
27094CHAPTER X INTO THE TUNNEL"What''s that?"
27094CHAPTER XIII WHERE DID IT GO?
27094Can you ride right out now?
27094Could it be stamped out by the burial of the five steers?
27094Did dad tell you of the new venture?"
27094Did you fellows hear the tinkle of glass just before that shot?"
27094Did you have grub enough?
27094Do n''t you smell powder smoke?"
27094Do n''t you smell the rotten stuff?"
27094Eh?
27094Give me a can of them sweet, yaller peaches,''Cause why?
27094Go a bit easy, will you, Bud?"
27094Had any more warnings, Bud?"
27094Had they caught the malady in time?
27094Have a good trip?
27094He could n''t have gotten up there, could he?"
27094How about you there?"
27094How''s everybody at my house?"
27094How''s things, Ike?"
27094How?"
27094I mean where does it disappear to?
27094Is there a stoppage at the dam?"
27094Lanterns were gotten ready, a supply of grub packed, weapons were looked to( for who knew what beast might not lurk in the tunnel?)
27094Now I wonder if we have blankets enough for you two?"
27094Say, what''s the matter with our water?
27094So they''re coming out again, be they?"
27094So what''s to prevent''em taking this branding iron along and asking, casual like, if they do n''t want it back?"
27094So you and the eastern lads are going to camp in Flume Valley, be you?"
27094That Zuni Indian?
27094That''s where your paw started that irrigation scheme; ai n''t it?"
27094The other is, where is the lever that Del Pinzo and his gang shifted to cause this second branch stream to stop running?"
27094There are n''t any cases of it at Double Z; are there?"
27094Was there any stoppage at the dam or pipe?"
27094Wassa matter?
27094Wassa matter?"
27094What about it?"
27094What are we going to do for water, now that we have a double supply of cattle at our ranch?
27094What are you going to do, Babe?"
27094What caused it?"
27094What d''yo''mean?"
27094What do you say that we eat?"
27094What is it?"
27094What say we try the right one this time?"
27094What would be the outcome?
27094What would they find?
27094What would they find?
27094What''d I tell you?"
27094What''s the idea?
27094What''s the idea?"
27094What''s the matter of yo''?"
27094When will you quit?"
27094When would they stop?
27094Where are you?"
27094Where are you?"
27094Where does the water disappear?"
27094Who''d you think it was?"
27094Who''s doing that?"
27094Why not?
27094Wonder what''s the matter, though?
27094Would they ever reappear again?
27094Would they go down again?
27094You do n''t care what sort of trouble th''old man gits into; do you, Bud?"
27094You gittin''all the water you can use from Pocut River, ai n''t you, Ike?"
27094You say the water stopped last night?"
27094You say you''re goin''down to the river?"
26539A moving picture, or just a plain everyday nightmare?
26539An accident? 26539 And had he really robbed your room, too?"
26539And how big is it?
26539And vhy, I like to know?
26539And what about Bud Haddon?
26539And what about the girls, Fred?
26539And what about the girls?
26539And what became of the brother who got into trouble?
26539And what called you to the kitchen?
26539And what do you suppose it was that bothered him, Walt?
26539And what makes you certain that they were stolen this time?
26539And what place is that?
26539And what time was this?
26539And where did Colonel Colby go?
26539And where is the Bimbel ranch?
26539And where to?
26539And who were they? 26539 And you did n''t see any trace of the animals?"
26539And you mean to say he used your uniform in stealing into the school?
26539And you say positively that you had nothing to do with the fire?
26539And you think she may accept it?
26539And your father said we could all go out there with you?
26539Andy, why did you push that snowball downstairs on top of old Duke?
26539Any clue to the thief or thieves?
26539Any good hunting or fishing?
26539Are any other people coming to the ranch?
26539Are n''t you fellows anxious to get there?
26539Are you hurt, Gif?
26539Are you hurt?
26539Are you pretty sure Haddon, as well as Dusenbury and Jillson, are guilty of making off with the horses that are missing?
26539Are you ready to be initiated?
26539Are you the boy who went to Colby Hall with my nephew, Lester Bangs?
26539Blue an''gol''spide?
26539But do n''t you think it would be wise to let the matter rest until Colonel Colby comes back from the city?
26539But how can we go if we do n''t know where we''re going?
26539But what about the robbery at the Hall?''
26539But what in the world could he be doing out so early in the morning?
26539Ca n''t we head''em off and capture''em?
26539Ca n''t you think who it was?
26539Can we go along?
26539Can we go downstairs now and get it?
26539Can you tell us anything about him?
26539Could n''t you prove that you were n''t there when the fire took place?
26539Den I could raise all mine own meats for mine delicatessen stores, not so?
26539Did Calder have any particularly good horses?
26539Did Haddon hound you when you came to Colby Hall?
26539Did dad get his Chinese cook?
26539Did he hurt you at all?
26539Did he say anything about Professor Duke?
26539Did n''t you hear what Mr. Bangs said about paying for tuition at Colby Hall? 26539 Did n''t you say something about other horses being stolen before we got here?"
26539Did she say who was going?
26539Did that rascal steal the horses from our ranch?
26539Did the boys catch those fish?
26539Did they ask May?
26539Did they use any of your outfit?
26539Did we hit you?
26539Did you come alone?
26539Did you ever have a moving picture company out here?
26539Did you hear anything about a party in which Brassy Bangs was interested?
26539Did you hear anything further about Ruth or anything about May?
26539Did you hear them mention Brassy?
26539Did you leave it turned on?
26539Did you recognize any of the cadets?
26539Did you see anybody up here?
26539Do all of you boys know how to ride?
26539Do n''t you know that they can send you to prison for ten years for what you did?
26539Do n''t you suppose we can round them up around Bimbel''s ranch almost any time?
26539Do n''t you think you could win the election if you tried?
26539Do n''t you want to go with us, Brassy?
26539Do you dare deny that you hauled us over the coals with those girls at Clearwater Hall?
26539Do you expect us to stay here all night?
26539Do you expect us to study in a cold room?
26539Do you know anybody by the name of John Calder whose barn burned down?
26539Do you know what I think we had better do?
26539Do you know what has happened since you went away?
26539Do you see him anywhere, Hop Lung?
26539Do you suppose Tommy Flanders will pitch?
26539Do you suppose it could be Brassy Bangs''father?
26539Do you think we can shoot as well as Brassy?
26539Do you think we ought to send him a telegram or anything like that?
26539Do you think we''ll be all right here?
26539Do you think you can run this car?
26539Do you want me to run, Ruth?
26539Do you want to go any closer to it?
26539Do you want to put out somebody''s eyes?
26539Do you want to sample it and make sure?
26539Does Fatty say anything further about Duke''s father?
26539Does he know how to run the auto?
26539Does n''t it make you feel fine?
26539Does your uncle know anything about what Haddon and his crowd are up to?
26539Ever get held up?
26539From your dad?
26539Give us a song, wo n''t you?
26539Going away again, eh?
26539Going to take us away in a submarine, Spouter?
26539Got it all right, did you?
26539Has Colonel Colby come back yet?
26539Has Colonel Colby come back yet?
26539Has Duke been taking care of his father?
26539Have you any idea who can be guilty?
26539Having food brought in on the sly, eh? 26539 Hear the radiator cracking?"
26539Honest?
26539Hop Lung see what?
26539How about horses, Spouter? 26539 How about it?
26539How about it?
26539How about the help?
26539How about yourself as captain?
26539How are you getting along with your studies, Ruth? 26539 How are you these days?"
26539How are you, Uncle Hans?
26539How are your eyes feeling, Ruth?
26539How could he if he was at the ranch? 26539 How could you see that when you were on your back?"
26539How dared you roll such a snowball down these stairs? 26539 How do you happen to know the fellow?"
26539How do you know I do n''t want to ride on horseback, Uncle John?
26539How do you make that out?
26539How far is it to your uncle''s ranch?
26539How is Ruth making out?
26539How is a fellow going to know where he''s heading?
26539How is it your dad bought a place like that?
26539How is that new pickling machine getting along?
26539How long do you expect to stay at Arrow Junction before you go out to Bimbel''s Ranch?
26539How long have you been here?
26539How long shall we have to stay here?
26539How many men on the place?
26539How you been alreatty?
26539I suppose you must have thousands of heads of cattle?
26539I trust none of you caught cold?
26539I understand you''re going to use your two big sleighs for a party this week for some of our fellows?
26539I wonder if Brassy really started that car on him?
26539I wonder if May and Ruth will go?
26539I wonder if that fellow Bud Haddon had anything to do with it?
26539I wonder if that''s so?
26539I wonder if there are any other mountain lions around?
26539I wonder if we ca n''t come to a halt here and go through the manual of arms?
26539I wonder if we can find any shelter around here?
26539I wonder if we could reach the nearest of them? 26539 I wonder what Colonel Colby meant when he said Duke had reasons for being irritable?"
26539I wonder where the owner is?
26539I''ve caught you, have I?
26539If it was a stranger you would have remembered, would n''t you?
26539If it''s tough climbing how is the automobile going to get there?
26539If what you say is true, how in thunder did that car git started? 26539 Is Lester your nephew?"
26539Is anything belonging to us gone?
26539Is it much of a town?
26539Is it so very outrageous, Professor, to bring a few snowballs into the school?
26539Is n''t it queer that Brassy Bangs has never showed himself around this place?
26539Is n''t it queer we did n''t think of it before? 26539 Is n''t it queer, he put me in mind of Flanders?"
26539Is n''t it simply glorious?
26539Is n''t it wonderful how you can cover such a distance?
26539Is n''t that just the grandest ever?
26539Is n''t this the limit? 26539 Is that the way you waste food?"
26539Is that you, Jack?
26539Is the ranch house big enough to accommodate such a large crowd?
26539Is this your car?
26539Is your father going to stay out here and become a regular ranchman, Spouter?
26539It certainly is a grand prospect, eh, Jack? 26539 Just look at the size of''em, will you?"
26539Look up the river, will you? 26539 May I ask what the articles were worth?"
26539Me? 26539 My, would n''t it be a lark to have the girls in our mess hall and treat them?"
26539News from where?
26539Now what do you make of this?
26539Oh, Colonel Colby, will you really do that?
26539Oh, then Lester is staying with you, is he?
26539Oh, then you''re Mr. Powell''s son, eh?
26539Rather a lively bunch, are they?
26539Say, Jack, why do n''t you and Brassy shoot off the tie?
26539Say, Jack, why not have a life- sized photo taken and give it to her to hang over her dressing table?
26539Say, Spouter, come down to earth, will you?
26539Say, do you fellows know that it''s five minutes to twelve?
26539See here, Brassy, why do n''t you tell us the whole story?
26539Seven of you, eh?
26539Shall we notify the Haven Point authorities?
26539She did n''t say where?
26539So this is your work, is it?
26539Some young fellows from town helping to get it up, I believe?
26539Suppose that lion had jumped right on top of you?
26539Suppose the trees should be struck by lightning?
26539The back stairs, eh?
26539The radiator turned off?
26539Then Ruth has n''t said anything to you about it?
26539Then why did n''t Professor Duke put this up to the captain?
26539Then you wo n''t consider my offer?
26539Thought you were pulling off a fine stunt, did n''t you, when you talked to Ruth Stevenson about me?
26539To what do you refer, Professor?
26539Trying to drown me in a flood of questions? 26539 Vot pickling machine you mean, Tom?"
26539Was Brassy with him?
26539Was any one with you?
26539Was n''t that just the tear- bringer?
26539Well, Jack, it will seem kind of funny, wo n''t it, to be at the head of the school battalion to- morrow morning?
26539Well, did you behave yourselves during the night?
26539Well, what about sending that big snowball down the stairs on top of Professor Duke?
26539Well, what about the hired help?
26539Well, what about the snowballs that were placed in the rooms of Stowell, Besser, Lunn and in the bathroom?
26539Well, what is it?
26539Well, what next?
26539Well, where is the ranch and how are we going to get to it?
26539Were any others implicated in this despicable piece of business?
26539Were the animals now missing the horses we rode?
26539What about baseball this spring, Jack?
26539What are you going to do next, Dad?
26539What are you grinning about?
26539What are you thinking of, Jack? 26539 What business have you up here, anyway?"
26539What do I mean?
26539What do you bet Haddon is n''t after Brassy for more money?
26539What do you know about this, Stowell?
26539What do you know about your Uncle Jarley''s auto running away by itself?
26539What do you know?
26539What do you mean by running off with my car?
26539What do you mean by that?
26539What do you mean? 26539 What do you mean?
26539What do you suppose he brought Hicks and Nixon up here for?
26539What do you suppose is in this cake, anyhow, and in the doughnuts?
26539What do you suppose it means?
26539What do you suppose they''ll do with us?
26539What does he mean by''flishee?''
26539What has he done now-- bought you an automobile?
26539What is it?
26539What is it?
26539What is it?
26539What is that you are trying to hide? 26539 What is that you have behind your back?
26539What is that? 26539 What is the matter with that omelet, Rover?"
26539What is the matter, Hop Lung?
26539What is the trouble, Professor?
26539What is this, Spouter?
26539What sort of a place is it, Spouter?
26539What was it all about?
26539What was your stuff worth, Dan?
26539What were Jillson and Dusenbury and you doing around the place?
26539What were they doing?
26539What were they going to do at Arrow Junction?
26539What were you doing on the back stairs this time in the evening?
26539What were you going to say?
26539What''ll you bet old Duke did n''t turn the heat off?
26539What''s going to happen next?
26539What''s that funny noise?
26539What''s that? 26539 What''s that?"
26539What''s the matter with making a whole lot of big snowballs and placing''em in some of the bedrooms to- night?
26539What''s the matter with you?
26539What''s the matter-- is something wrong?
26539What''s the matter?
26539What''s the news?
26539What''s this you''ve got to tell me, Martha?
26539What''s up? 26539 What''s wrong?"
26539What? 26539 What?
26539When did this happen, Jackson?
26539When did you find this out?
26539When do you suppose we can start?
26539Where are they?
26539Where are they?
26539Where did it come from?
26539Where did you come from just now?
26539Where did you come from?
26539Where did you pick up these chaps?
26539Where do we go and when?
26539Where is he?
26539Where is ma?
26539Where is the fire?
26539Where is the party to be held?
26539Where is the trouble, Hop Lung? 26539 Where is your ranch located?"
26539Where?
26539Which way did they go?
26539Who are those other fellows?
26539Who do you suppose did it?
26539Who ever heard of an automobile running around by itself?
26539Who ever heard of meeting a runaway auto like this?
26539Who ever thought they would start off like that?
26539Who is that?
26539Who is that?
26539Who says so?
26539Who was it lent me his uniform and who was it that told me just what rooms to go into? 26539 Who were they?"
26539Who would have thought he was coming to the ranch?
26539Who''s to ride on horseback?
26539Why ca n''t they march some place worth while or just go around the town and let it go at that?
26539Why did n''t we think of this before? 26539 Why did n''t you call us, Jack?"
26539Why did n''t you expose him at once?
26539Why do n''t you speak of ham and eggs, lamb chops, fried potatoes, coffee cake with raisins in it, and things like that while you''re at it?
26539Why do n''t you tell me now?
26539Why in thunder did n''t you tell your folks and me all about this just as soon as it happened? 26539 Why should I tell my story to you?
26539Why, I thought Brassy Bangs came from a ranch in the West?
26539Why, the glass is out of''em, anyway, is n''t it?
26539Why, what do you mean, Jack?
26539Why?
26539Will you kindly let me know what you mean by such outrageous conduct?
26539Would n''t I?
26539Would n''t you think he''d at least ride over to see what sort of an outfit we had here?
26539Would you be proud, Ruth, if I should win the position?
26539You callee me?
26539You did n''t hear anything about what girls intended to go, did you?
26539You did n''t know the others?
26539You do n''t suppose Lester tried to start the car, do you?
26539You git only one flish?
26539You mean Blackbird?
26539You mean the robbery, I suppose?
26539You want a few words, eh?
26539All of you?"
26539And as the man nodded shortly, he added:"Then you must be Mr. Jarley Bangs?"
26539And how came you to get that snowball up there anyway?"
26539And then he added dryly:"What are we going to use that sugar and condensed milk on?"
26539And what were you going to do with them?
26539Answer me those questions, will you?"
26539But if he had anything to do with the robbery at the school, do you think Brassy had, too?"
26539But is there any one in the place that you suspect?"
26539But what startled that horse?"
26539But where are we going?"
26539CHAPTER VII SOMETHING ABOUT A SLEIGHRIDE PARTY"What kind of a party is it, Martha?"
26539Ca n''t you see?
26539Come out here, will you?"
26539Did Ruth say anything to you about it?"
26539Did he expect to stay at the Junction?"
26539Did n''t you have a quarrel with old Calder?"
26539Do you know we have no heat in here?"
26539Do you recognize that man?"
26539Do your eyes interfere much with them?"
26539Everything clear?"
26539Go to bed?"
26539Have they discovered anything?"
26539How about it?"
26539How could it be doing that?
26539How in the world did you get here?"
26539I dink dos cows vould make apout a million pounds of frankfurters, not?"
26539I wonder if he''s going to take us to the guardroom?"
26539I wonder if we''re going to have a storm?"
26539I wonder where he''s going to take us now?"
26539In the kitchen?"
26539Is n''t that a wolf?"
26539Is n''t that so, fellows?"
26539Is that it?"
26539Ruth?"
26539So this is what is going on, eh?"
26539Starving them to death?
26539Then he went on:"Say, Lest, why do n''t you challenge Jack Rover and his cousin Fred to shoot against you?
26539We''ll have enough mounts, sha''n''t we?"
26539What I want to know is, do you fellows intend to smash all the glass in those hotbed frames out yonder?"
26539What about him?"
26539What are we going to do?
26539What are you shooting at?"
26539What are you shooting at?"
26539What are you trying to do?"
26539What brought you up here?"
26539What did they take?"
26539What do you know about that?"
26539What do you mean, Uncle Jarley?"
26539What do you mean?
26539What do you mean?"
26539What do you suppose he put in the cake?"
26539What is this?"
26539What we want to know is, did you or that fellow rob Colby Hall?"
26539What''s that commotion?"
26539What''s the matter with that cake?"
26539What''s the meaning o''this?"
26539What''s this?
26539Where are we going this summer?"
26539Where did you get those things, Soppinger?
26539Who did that?"
26539Why do n''t you ask one thing at a time?"
26539Why not get at Spouter and make him tell us what he''s got in mind about our vacation this summer?"
26539Why snuff the tainted air of the musty classroom when the free ozone of the hills and mountains beckons to you?
26539Would n''t you think he''d rather stay at home?"
26539You do not know anything about the big snowball that just came hurtling down these stairs?"
26539You expect me to believe such a story as that?"
26539but does n''t this take the cake?"
26539did n''t you have any supper?"
26539do you mean you''re not going to tell us where we''re going?"
26539do you suppose Hop Lung put the wrong stuff in the cake and in the doughnuts?"
26539do you think they''ll be run down?"
26539does n''t looking at these two trays make you weary in the bones?"
26539does that mean we ca n''t stick up for our rights?"
26539he added, and then boomed out with this well- known Hall refrain:"Who are we?
26539is that more of the doctored stuff?"
26539is the man crazy?"
26539listen to that, will you?"
26539what do you call a sock doughnut?"
26539what does this mean?"
26539what''s going on here?"
26539what''s the trouble?"
26539what''s up now?"
26539where have you been?"
26539why do n''t you run?"
26539would n''t it be queer if that fellow really had robbed Colby Hall and if Brassy was mixed up in it?"
26434And did n''t he tell you who he was?
26434And did you ever run across Big Reuben again?
26434And did you hold on to the rifle all the time?
26434And do you expect to go prospecting for this vein of galena in the spring?
26434And the big tree, pushing its roots down into the vein, has brought away a piece of it, eh?
26434And what did you do next?
26434And what did you say to him?
26434And what do you suppose he''ll do?
26434And what do you use it for?
26434And what shall you do, father? 26434 And where do you get it?"
26434And you did n''t guess who he was?
26434Any idea who he was?
26434Anybody hurt?
26434Are you proposing to uncover it, Tom?
26434Are you thinking you''ve found the trail of the ore- thief?
26434As for you, you have n''t, eh? 26434 Belonging to you?"
26434But meanwhile where''s Peter?
26434But that being the case, how did you come to discover it yourself? 26434 But what are those other, smaller, clouds of smoke?"
26434But why should he want to get there first?
26434But why should they?
26434Ca n''t I come, too?
26434Can you see that, Phil?
26434Can you see the water?
26434Clever fellow, is n''t he?
26434Did n''t want to be seen, eh?
26434Did you?
26434Do n''t they? 26434 Do n''t they?"
26434Do n''t you think I might venture down and help you, Joe?
26434Do you know Tom Connor, then?
26434Do you know what I think?
26434Do you mean,I asked,"that there is a lead- mine in the bottom of the pool?"
26434Do you see, Phil, they tread in his tracks all the time?
26434Do you see?
26434Do you suppose he can have crossed our valley, Phil?
26434Do you suppose it''s Yetmore, Joe?
26434Do you think you can? 26434 Do you think you could walk with help?"
26434Do you think you would be able to find my house again?
26434Do you? 26434 Does this creek always freeze up like this?"
26434Father,said I, as we sat together at breakfast,"may Joe and I go and trail him up?
26434Gone back to the cabin, has he?
26434Has he forgotten something? 26434 Has he gone?"
26434Have they lost something?
26434Have to get up early to get around the boss, eh?
26434Have you got any twine in your pocket?
26434Have you heard from them since they left?
26434He''s a fine fellow-- isn''t he, Phil? 26434 He''s down below, is n''t he?"
26434How about our bridge?
26434How are we to know,said he,"that Yetmore did n''t steal this ore himself?
26434How are you, Tom?
26434How are you, boys?
26434How are you, old man?
26434How deep is it here?
26434How deep is it, I wonder?
26434How did you escape the slide?
26434How did you know?
26434How do you figure it out, Phil?
26434How do you know that, Joe?
26434How does Tom come to be out of funds at this time of year? 26434 How soon did you go to bed?"
26434How wide is it?
26434How''s the air down there?
26434How, Tom?
26434How?
26434Hurt, Peter?
26434Hurt, Tom?
26434I suppose you''d like to be the first, would n''t you?
26434If Long John is not prospecting for Yetmore or himself either, being supposedly in hiding, what was he doing on the''bubble''yesterday?
26434In Tom Connor''s house?
26434Information about what cart- tracks?
26434Is a porphyry outcrop a desirable thing to find? 26434 Is it at all dangerous?"
26434Is it safer than taking it down to the express office?
26434Is it you? 26434 Is that so?
26434Is that so?
26434Is that so?
26434Is that so?
26434Is that why you went to the stable? 26434 Is the bottom solid or sandy?"
26434Is there?
26434It ca n''t be Tom, himself, can it?
26434It was this evening, was n''t it, Phil?
26434It would be well, would n''t it, to tell Tom Connor about it?
26434It''s against the law all right; but what does that matter to you? 26434 Long John?"
26434May I look at it?
26434Maybe,said the storekeeper presently,"maybe you know something about that leak?"
26434Oh, do you?
26434Oh, that''s who it is, is it? 26434 Should we build the wall close around the present fence, or should we increase the size of the corral while we are about it?"
26434So you made a strike, did you?
26434That explosion? 26434 That was a rascally piece of work, was n''t it?"
26434That''s the case in a nutshell,my father assented;"and, as I said before: What are we going to do about it?"
26434The row of stumps is our goal, all right, but how are we going to get down there? 26434 Then, what do you propose to do?"
26434Trade pretty brisk?
26434Wait a moment, boys, will you?
26434Want anybody, boys?
26434Was there ever such a lucky chance? 26434 Well, Joe,"said I, when we had safely reached the rocks again,"it''s just as well we did n''t both go down together after all, is n''t it?"
26434Well, John, what is it?
26434Well, do n''t you think it''s high time you changed your habits?
26434Well, if he did n''t,remarked my companion,"how did he get his feet wet?
26434Well, what kind of a vein is it, anyhow?
26434Well, what of that, Joe?
26434Well, what of that?
26434Well, you do n''t suppose the thief would walk over this rough mountain with his feet wrapped up in rags, do you? 26434 What are they up to?"
26434What are_ you_ doing up here? 26434 What brings you here?"
26434What can he be doing, I wonder?
26434What do you mean?
26434What do you mean?
26434What do you mean?
26434What do you propose to do, then, Joe?
26434What do you think, Joe?
26434What does''668''stand for?
26434What is it made of, I wonder?
26434What is it, Joe?
26434What is it, then?
26434What is it?
26434What is it?
26434What should he want to do that for?
26434What was it, Joe?
26434What will Yetmore say? 26434 What will you do now?"
26434What''s ground ice?
26434What''s happened, Phil?
26434What''s he going to do about it, I wonder?
26434What''s the best way of setting about it?
26434What''s the matter, Joe?
26434What''s the matter?
26434What''s the use of that kind of talk?
26434What''s this smell of coal oil?
26434What''s up?
26434What''s up?
26434What''s your pile of stones for, Joe?
26434What?
26434When did you put that in?
26434When_ do_ they get home?
26434Where do you propose to take me?
26434Where does all this water come from?
26434Where does it go?
26434Where to?
26434Where were you, Joe, when you saw it come down?
26434Which direction?
26434Which half do you take?
26434Which of the ponies do you think I had better take this morning, Phil? 26434 Who''s that?"
26434Who''s the thing belong to, anyhow?
26434Who''s to go down, Joe, you or I?
26434Whoever would have thought there was a house in here?
26434Why do they leave it in the mine?
26434Why do you ask?
26434Why do you say that?
26434Why in the spring particularly?
26434Why, are you going to quit, Tom?
26434Why, what''s all this?
26434Why, where have we got to, Tom?
26434Why? 26434 Why?"
26434Why?
26434Why?
26434Why?
26434Why?
26434Wo n''t you come home with us to- night?
26434Yes, but how are we to divert it?
26434Yetmore''s been here, I suppose?
26434Yetmore''s ground?
26434You are Mr. Crawford''s boys, then, are you? 26434 You do?
26434You say there''s about five hundred pounds of the ore: have they taken it all out already?
26434You seem very sure,remarked Peter;"but do you think you could recognize him so far off?"
26434You''re late to- night, are n''t you?
2643478"WE SAW BEFORE US A VERY CURIOUS SIGHT"155"''CAN FOLKS SEE IN FROM OUTSIDE?''"
26434And as Sox flew back to his perch, Peter continued:"How far down did you leave your ponies, boys?"
26434And do you suppose Yetmore recognized the sand as galena ore?
26434And the Crawford ranch?
26434And what sort of a man_ is_ your wild man now you''ve caught him?"
26434And why does he live all by himself like that?"
26434Any clue to your ore- thieves?"
26434Are you in a hurry to get home?"
26434As we walked along, my mother said:"So the hermit has been staying with you, has he?
26434At length:"Where does it come from, Joe?"
26434Bring down the pick, will you?
26434But how about the plowing, Phil?
26434But how are we going to prove it, Joe?"
26434But how is it you are on hand so promptly?
26434But now we are here, the question is: How are we going to get you out?"
26434But was there no way by which Tom Connor might be delayed in starting, if only for a day or two?
26434But where had he dropped from so suddenly?
26434But where was he going?
26434But which way did he go, Joe; across the road or down it?"
26434Ca n''t you hear''em squealing?
26434Can folks see in from outside?"
26434Can we make it?"
26434Can you guess what I expected to find?"
26434Could n''t we----Look here, Phil: could n''t we set up a ladder to reach from the bottom up to the bulge?"
26434Did he leave any tracks?"
26434Did he tell you anything about it, Seth?"
26434Did it scare you when I went scooting down the slide on my back?"
26434Did n''t we, Phil?"
26434Did you expect to find it gone?"
26434Did you expect to get work as a miner?"
26434Did you find any of it in that hole up there?"
26434Did you see it start, Joe?"
26434Do n''t you think it was a bit risky to go galloping about the country with that game leg of yours?"
26434Do you know who_ I_ am?
26434Do you notice how they all float clean side up?
26434Do you see how it is made up of shining cubes of some black mineral?
26434Do you see that black stone stuck among the roots?
26434Do you suppose he''ll venture to go down the rope, Phil?"
26434Do you think that''s likely?"
26434Does he expect that Yetmore will be content to let the matter rest where it is?"
26434Does it amount to much?"
26434Does the boss want me?"
26434First or second?"
26434Go prospecting?"
26434Got here just in time, did n''t you?
26434Got my message, did you?"
26434Had he followed us back from the mountain?
26434Had he seen us coming in the early morning, and, making a circuit out of our sight, lain in wait for us as we returned?
26434Have you found the vein, then?"
26434He bears his disappointment pretty well, does n''t he?"
26434He found Mrs. Appleby and Seth tidying up preparatory to closing the store, and stepping in, he said,"You do n''t take in lodgers, I suppose, ma''am?
26434He paused for a moment, and then, with much earnestness of manner, went on:"How am I to thank you, boys?
26434How are we to get up there, Peter?
26434How did you find the ore?
26434How do you suppose_ he_ came to hear of the black sand?"
26434How far up is it to your house?"
26434How long a tunnel would it take, do you calculate?"
26434How many men get rich at it?
26434How much better off were we?
26434How shall we manage it, Joe?
26434How will he dispose of them?"
26434Hughy has four children, has n''t he?"
26434I did so at once, and then asked:"Can you see the bottom, Joe?"
26434Is it an''indication''?"
26434Is that the story?"
26434Is the pool the same depth all over?"
26434Is there no way of sending that beast off?
26434Joe looked at me with raised eyebrows, as much as to say,"Do you know him?"
26434Make it?
26434Now, what do you think?"
26434Peter listened attentively, and then asked:"Are you sure there was only one of them?"
26434Poke it out with the shovel, will you?
26434Pretty dirty stuff, is n''t it?
26434Pretty early for prospecting, is n''t it?"
26434Pry out one or two of those, will you?"
26434Put in a second window?"
26434Saddle my pony, too, will you?
26434See?"
26434Shall we go up there?
26434So saying, he leaped from his horse and seizing me by the arm, cried:"You''re not joking, are you, Phil?
26434So the putty- faced boy sleeps in the store, does he?"
26434Sold it to Mr. Crawford, eh?
26434Suppose a prospector does strike a vein of ore: what is the common result?
26434THE DRAINING OF THE"FORTY RODS"313 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE"THERE WAS BIG REUBEN LOOKING DOWN AT US"_ Frontispiece_ 22"AH, SOX, IS THAT YOU?''"
26434That you, Patsy?
26434That you?"
26434The little gray is the one, Phil, do n''t you think?"
26434The man they call''The Yellow Pup''?
26434The man turned, and seeing the bird standing there with its head on one side, said, laughingly:"Ah, Sox, is that you?
26434The pinto?"
26434The''Hermit''?
26434The''Raven''?
26434The''Socrates''?"
26434Then----Oh, what''s the use?
26434There''s the ranch, too, that green spot in the mesa; you would n''t think it was nearly a mile square, would you?"
26434This is the right way to get there, is n''t it?"
26434Was it up at the Pelican?"
26434Was there, Joe?"
26434Well, shall we go ahead and speak to him?"
26434What are we going to do about it, boys?
26434What are we going to name it?
26434What are you doing down here?
26434What are you wearing your rubber boots for?"
26434What can any one be burning sulphur up here for?
26434What can you suggest?"
26434What did it mean?
26434What do you say, Phil?
26434What do you say?"
26434What do you say?"
26434What do you think of that?"
26434What have you done with it?"
26434What is it?"
26434What makes you think that, Joe?"
26434What of it?"
26434What time is it?"
26434What was he doing?"
26434What were you and he doing, by the way?
26434What would you have done if I''d happened to have left the drift?"
26434What''s all this mystery about?"
26434What''s new?"
26434What''s that?"
26434What''s the matter with you?"
26434What''s the matter, I wonder?
26434What''s the news, Connor?
26434What''s your name?"
26434What''s your opinion, Phil?"
26434When does Tom quit work on the Pelican?"
26434Where had he come from?
26434Where is it?
26434Where''s your master?"
26434Where?"
26434Which do you want?
26434Who brought you down?"
26434Who is he, Mr. Crawford?
26434Who is he?"
26434Who to?"
26434Who''s to suspect, anyhow?"
26434Why did your companion go off so suddenly?"
26434Why do you ask?"
26434Why should we?
26434Why?"
26434Will you?"
26434Would he be likely to know it in the form of sand?"
26434Yetmore?"
26434Yetmore?"
26434Yetmore?"
26434You are the two boys I''ve seen cutting timbers down there, are you?
26434You know Arty Burns?--works on the night shift?
26434You know that deep, rocky gorge where Big Reuben had his den?
26434You know that little treeless''bubble''that stands on the edge of the cañon only about half a mile up- stream from here?
26434You''ll stay over to- morrow, of course, and see Tom uncover the vein?"
26434[ Illustration:"''AH, SOX, IS THAT YOU?''"]
26434[ Illustration:"''CAN FOLKS SEE IN FROM OUTSIDE?''"]
26434cried Joe, as he bounced out of bed; and,"Where is it?"
27097A dead man?
27097A mistake, how?
27097About how many dollars will she run to the ton?
27097All alone?
27097All right, but what kind? 27097 American turkey, what does he mean?"
27097An old man, half crazy; eh?
27097And it''s from this glen that Bud got his dose of poison gas and where, just now, we got ours; is n''t it?
27097And lose the ranch and the cattle on it?
27097And there were n''t any signs of sudden deaths?
27097And this is where Sam Tarbell''s horse was killed and where Sam was knocked out-- near this glen; was n''t it?
27097And what happened?
27097And what is the danger?
27097And what killed your horse?
27097And, speaking of Chinks, when are we going to get that Celestial cook we talked of?
27097Any chance of getting a yellow man in Los Pompon?
27097Any of what?
27097Anything happen?
27097Anything the matter, Dad?
27097Anything to do with Chinese smuggling?
27097Are you hurt?
27097Are you looking for some one?
27097Are you looking for trouble?
27097Are you sure it''s gold, son?
27097Are you sure of that?
27097Are you the boss?
27097Bad water; eh?
27097Bear what?
27097Big stones?
27097Billee Dobb, is that you?
27097Bridle''s gone; eh?
27097Bullet?
27097But are the masks any good?
27097But ca n''t we do anything, meanwhile, for that poor Chink?
27097But can you tell us anything about the causes for the deaths that have taken place on Dot and Dash ranch?
27097But did n''t you find out what caused all this, Billee?
27097But did you come away, Dad, and leave no one in charge?
27097But did you know it was there?
27097But did you see any of those rustlers, holdup men, or whatever they are, with their gas cylinders?
27097But how is the poison gas generated and how does it come up out of cracks in the earth to kill cattle and knock out our men?
27097But how''d you know we was knocked out?
27097But now we''re out of danger for a while, what''s to be done next?
27097But we ca n''t let the cattle business slide; can we?
27097But what about that soda water cylinder you say they shot at you?
27097But what do you think of him, anyhow?
27097But what in the world for?
27097But what kind of a smell could it be?
27097But what knocked you out?
27097But what was it, then?
27097But what''s he doing?
27097But what''s it all about?
27097But what''s the matter with him?
27097But what''s their game?
27097But what''s your game, anyhow?
27097But what, actually, did happen?
27097But why?
27097But you are n''t going to throw that away; are you?
27097But you did n''t see any signs of him-- or it?
27097Ca n''t we do something to''em?
27097Ca n''t you give him something?
27097Came to leave that-- what is it?
27097Can you come out quick?
27097Could n''t you hold down the job?
27097Death Valley?
27097Death to whom, Billee?
27097Did I scare you?
27097Did I see an old man or did n''t I?
27097Did n''t anybody tell you the local name of the place''fore you took it over?
27097Did n''t you stop to see if those men were still there, and what they were doing?
27097Did the horses smell a bear, do you think?
27097Did they bottle up this stuff you gave such a long name to, Professor, and shoot it out at us?
27097Did those fellows come back and shoot gas at you?
27097Did you know this had happened?
27097Did you see me?
27097Do n''t you want to find out what killed those cattle?
27097Do you know that old man''s name?
27097Do you know this old man-- what did you say his name was?
27097Do you know what caused the deaths?
27097Do you mean a bear?
27097Do you mean they wo n''t come back?
27097Do you mind telling us what happened? 27097 Do you really believe there''s a chance of finding gold in that cave?"
27097Do you really think there''s gold in that cave?
27097Do you see Bud?
27097Do you see that?
27097Do you think it can be done?
27097Do you think that, or the queer old man, had anything to do with the death of these cows?
27097Do you think there''ll be a fight?
27097Do you think these rustlers were responsible for the deaths here in this valley?
27097Do you think those cows were shot?
27097Do you want one of us to chase after that old man?
27097Does n''t he like it here that he''s taking on like this?
27097Dropped that warning?
27097For he helped, did n''t he?
27097Gas masks?
27097Going to try it again, Bud?
27097Gold mine?
27097Got a ticket, little girl?
27097Had n''t the boss better file a claim of discovery?
27097Had n''t we better have sentry- go from now on?
27097Have they been setting off this gas-- or some even worse-- and killing cattle, men and horses?
27097Have you just found it out?
27097He is?
27097Hear something?
27097Hello, what''s this?
27097Horse thieves, eh?
27097How about a knife thrust?
27097How about it, Bud?
27097How about it, Dick?
27097How about it, boys?
27097How about the cattle?
27097How about you, Nort?
27097How are you?
27097How could he have anything to do with Bud staying away all night?
27097How is it, then, Billee,asked Mr. Merkel,"that nothing happened to me?
27097How many deaths were there?
27097How many horses did he get?
27097How much what to the ton?
27097How much what?
27097How was it they could turn a stream of poison gas, or at least knock- out gas, on you, Bud, and not suffer from it themselves?
27097How you goin''to do that?
27097How''d Fah Moo get the Elixer?
27097How''d he get in camp to leave that warning without being seen or heard?
27097How''d you like that mouthful of dust?
27097Hurt? 27097 I wonder if Del Pinzo can be back of this gang?"
27097I wonder if Old Tosh is up there, helping the rustlers?
27097I wonder if he could have had anything to do with it?
27097I wonder if you could tell what those cows died of?
27097I wonder what Bud''s trying to do?
27097I wonder what in the world Bud is trying to do?
27097I wonder what we''ll find?
27097If they''re rustlers why did they just hold Bud a prisoner a while and then light out and not take any stock?
27097If you all leave Diamond X, how''s Slim an''Babe goin''to run things?
27097In the first place what''s your name?
27097In what way?
27097Is it a disappearance?
27097Is that the outfit not far from Los Pompan, near the Mexican border?
27097Is this a joke or are you just stringing me?
27097Just what do you know?
27097Know anything about it?
27097Make anything of it, Billee?
27097Meaning bears, wildcats or other such varmints?
27097Mustard and water; eh?
27097No? 27097 Not if he took three bottles of it?"
27097Poison; eh?
27097Rustlers drive off cattle-- they do n''t kill''em-- what would be the good?
27097Sam Tarbell; eh?
27097See anything there?
27097Send us where?
27097Shall we all go on the round- up?
27097Shall we go back and get that horse doctor, and then bury the dead cows?
27097Shall we stand guard?
27097So the Elixer is only sarsaparilla; is it?
27097So they come back; did they? 27097 Speaking of diggings,"went on Dick,"what do you reckon it was Bud saw those fellows digging out of the sides of the cave?"
27097Stones?
27097Tell me, Billee,resumed Nort,"on what sections of the ranch did most of the deaths occur-- I mean when you worked here?"
27097That outfit?
27097Then the men who thought they had a gold mine in the cave had nothing to do with killing the cattle?
27097Then we did n''t need to do so much worrying?
27097Then what did?
27097Then what happened? 27097 Then what''d you run for?"
27097Then why would you be willing to go back?
27097Then you are n''t a stranger here?
27097Then you bought the new ranch; did you, Dad?
27097This any of your doin''s?
27097This is Death Valley all right; ai n''t it?
27097Throw it away? 27097 To Los Pompan, eh?"
27097Tosh?
27097Warn us of what?
27097Was n''t there?
27097Was this here Dolan anxious to stay?
27097Well, if these fellows, who were found dead, got shot, why was n''t there bullet holes in''em?
27097Well, then,went on Nort,"is n''t it reasonable to suppose that this band-- or some bunch like it-- has been doing this right along?"
27097Well, we''re half way there, I guess, are n''t we, Billee?
27097Well, what do you make of that?
27097Well, what next?
27097Well, would you mind having a look at the bodies?
27097What about standing guard to- night?
27097What about the horses?
27097What are those?
27097What became of Tim Dolan, who was foreman, and all the other punchers?
27097What did he take?
27097What do you mean by coming here trying to scare me?
27097What do you mean, son?
27097What do you mean? 27097 What do you mean?"
27097What do you reckon it could have been to make them bolt so suddenly?
27097What do you reckon those boys are doing, Ma?
27097What do you say, Billee?
27097What do you think we are-- tenderfeet?
27097What else is it? 27097 What else was he?"
27097What else? 27097 What good did it do you to have sentry- go the other nights?"
27097What good would dead ones be to them? 27097 What good would that do?"
27097What happened?
27097What happened?
27097What happened?
27097What happened?
27097What happened?
27097What has become of Bud?
27097What if they use a kind we ca n''t smell until it''s too late?
27097What in the name of Tunket for?
27097What is all this about poison gas in tanks killing cattle?
27097What is it, Fah?
27097What is that stuff?
27097What proof?
27097What say?
27097What thing?
27097What was it then?
27097What you looking at?
27097What you talking to yourself for? 27097 What''ll you do then?"
27097What''s that?
27097What''s that?
27097What''s the best thing to do?
27097What''s the idea?
27097What''s the matter?
27097What''s the matter?
27097What''s the matter?
27097What''s the matter?
27097What''s the next move?
27097What''s the row?
27097What, so soon? 27097 What, that these men had been gassed?
27097What?
27097What?
27097When''ll you be back?
27097Where do you mean?
27097Where do you reckon he is?
27097Where is he-- which way did he go?
27097Where is he? 27097 Where''s a gold mine?"
27097Where''s that outfit heading for?
27097Where?
27097Who are you?
27097Who did it?
27097Who in the world is Fah Moo?
27097Who is he and what about him?
27097Who is he?
27097Who killed him?
27097Who''d do such a thing?
27097Who''s doing all that yelling?
27097Who''s there?
27097Who, me? 27097 Who, me?
27097Who?
27097Who?
27097Why could n''t it have been snakes?
27097Why do n''t you put your full name on your labels?
27097Why do n''t you want to sign on with us?
27097Why not? 27097 Why not?"
27097Why not?
27097Why should they go to the trouble of killing cows? 27097 Why should we go away from here?"
27097Why would n''t he stay?
27097Why, I wonder where Bud is?
27097Why, did n''t the old gazaboo tell us what it was-- Elixer of Life? 27097 Will that save the dead steers-- I mean the steers that seem to be dead?"
27097Will you see if you can get some for us?
27097Wonder what he came for, anyhow?
27097Wonder what their game is?
27097You are n''t getting my new Dot and Dash ranch mixed up with Death Valley in the Panamint Mountains of California; are you?
27097You did n''t see anything; did you, Dick?
27097You do n''t imagine he had anything to do with scaring our horses; do you?
27097You do? 27097 You drink all that?"
27097You mean about mysterious deaths?
27097You mean being knocked out like you was dead?
27097You mean do I have any suspicions against him?
27097You mean he drunk all that Elixer?
27097You mean old Tosh?
27097You mean the series of deaths?
27097You say you saw those men digging away in the cave, cracking rocks and the like of that?
27097You thought maybe he''d been overcome by it?
27097You''ll do what?
27097And as he supported himself on one hand, while with the other he reached for his fallen gun, he murmured:"Who are you and what happened?"
27097And then he remembered and added:"You mean on account of possible deaths?"
27097Anybody home?"
27097Are you with me, boys?"
27097But after what happened to you----""Just what did happen?"
27097But roughly about how much do you think our mine will assay to the ton?"
27097But what about the horses, cattle and men who were killed here in Death Valley?
27097But what happened here?"
27097But what makes you think we''ll be safe here, Snake?"
27097But where is Star?"
27097But why not bury the bodies, Bud?"
27097CHAPTER IV A NIGHT ALARM"Well, Dick, how they coming?"
27097CHAPTER X DEAD CATTLE"What''s the idea?"
27097Can you tell us anything about those rascals with their tanks of gas?"
27097Could n''t it happen that way?"
27097Did I hear you boys say you caught him in a cave?"
27097Did n''t you know there was gold there?"
27097Did these fellows have anything to do with that?"
27097Did you come to our camp and leave that note?"
27097Did you shoot''em up?"
27097Do you know him, Billee?"
27097Do you mean----?"
27097Either of you notice any smell?"
27097Go out there with you if your Pa thinks he''ll let you?
27097Gold''s what we want; ai n''t it?"
27097How did you get here, and what''s he doing here?"
27097How is it Death Valley did n''t get me, Billee?"
27097How?"
27097I do n''t reckon he could''a''been your brother; could he?"
27097I wonder if he can do it?
27097I''ll put up with my loss, and----""Did you pay much for the new ranch, Dad?"
27097Is that what you asted me?"
27097Only where are we going to get them?"
27097So he calls it Life''s Elixer; does he?"
27097Sufferin''horned toads, what you want to do that for?"
27097That''s the right way to express it; ai n''t it?"
27097The place was sold, and you say your dad bought it?"
27097Then he went on with:"It''s in a valley; ai n''t it, Boss?"
27097Then those fellows, with their gas tanks, did n''t have anything to do with killing our cattle?"
27097Those here before you would n''t listen to me, and what happened to them?
27097We found you stretched out and----""Sort of took me for dead; did n''t you?"
27097We''re not afraid; are we?"
27097What do you know about that?"
27097What do you mean?"
27097What do you mean?"
27097What do you think caused the deaths?"
27097What else could it be?"
27097What for?"
27097What happened to them?"
27097What secrets did it hold?
27097What you think I am, anyhow?"
27097What''s the name got to do with it?"
27097What''s to prevent a ledge or seam of gold from running up into these hills, or small mountains, and cropping out in that cave?
27097What''s to prevent?"
27097What, then, was the explanation of the former mysterious deaths?
27097Where''d you get it?"
27097Who died there, and how come?"
27097Who do you think they were-- I mean what sort of scamps?"
27097Who''ll volunteer?"
27097Why did n''t I think of it before?"
27097Why did n''t you call me first, Dick?"
27097Why did n''t you wake me, Dick?"
27097Why does n''t that gang fight like men if they want to give battle-- not spray their dirty poison gas around dumb beasts?"
27097Why else would those fellows want to keep us out?
27097Wonder how they worked the game, anyhow?"
27097Wonder if there''s anything in it?"
27097You do n''t mind; do you?"
27097You say you have gas masks?
27097asked Bud, while Dick inquired:"Did he have anything to do with knocking you out?"
32525A cat''s cradle?
32525A lot of my ponies stolen?
32525A real one?
32525A soft- foot? 32525 A squaw is a Indian lady, is n''t she?"
32525A wagon with ponies?
32525An''did n''t you catch noffin for me?
32525And are daddy and Uncle Frank looking for these horses and cattle?
32525And can I ask them to make me a bow and arrows?
32525And can we take Nicknack with us, to ride around the ranch?
32525And did they have your cattle with them?
32525And do the Indians ride on ahead and try to get away?
32525And how will you catch them?
32525And if you do go, Uncle Frank, please ca n''t I go too?
32525And if you get any Indians will you bring''em here?
32525And what are we going to do all night?
32525And what''s a soft- foot, Uncle Frank?
32525And who does he think took the horses?
32525And will you show me how to lasso?
32525Are the cowboys coming in to eat with us?
32525Are there any Indians out there?
32525Are they cowboys?
32525Are they shooting real bullets, Uncle Frank?
32525Are they very wild?
32525Are you afraid?
32525Are you going in?
32525Are you going to look any more?
32525Are you going?
32525Are you hurt? 32525 Are you really going after Indians?"
32525Are you scared?
32525Bad news about the ponies?
32525Bad news, is it?
32525Bears and Indians?
32525But I ca n''t give you half the pony, can I?
32525But I can lasso good, ca n''t I?
32525But he''ll give him back to us when we come home, wo n''t he?
32525But how can you give medicine to a horse, Jim? 32525 But how can you?"
32525But is he here?
32525But where do you live?
32525But where is Trouble?
32525But where is the ranch?
32525But will we have to stay out here all night?
32525But-- the Indians?
32525Buy what?
32525Ca n''t I come?
32525Ca n''t I go out and watch''em?
32525Ca n''t I wide, Uncle Frank? 32525 Ca n''t we ever see any?"
32525Ca n''t we take him home?
32525Ca n''t you come and cure the sick pony?
32525Ca n''t you find the rocks and let them rest and get a drink? 32525 Ca n''t you ride without a saddle?"
32525Can we go to see''em?
32525Can we learn to ride a pony to- day?
32525Can we take Nicknack?
32525Can you make him better?
32525Could I go if I knew how to ride a pony, Uncle Frank?
32525Could I just have a little ride on your pony''s back?
32525Could n''t you find him?
32525Could n''t you take a broom for a gun?
32525Could we give him a little ride on our ponies?
32525Could we have ponies to ride?
32525Could you show us where the Indians are that took Uncle Frank''s ponies?
32525Did I hurt you much?
32525Did Uncle Frank find his ponies?
32525Did he step in a hole?
32525Did it hurt?
32525Did our train bunk into another?
32525Did the cowboys come back with the Indians?
32525Did you catch the Indians?
32525Did you ever get captured by the Indians?
32525Did you find them?
32525Did you hear that, Ted?
32525Did you hear that?
32525Did you open the gate?
32525Did you see them?
32525Did you take these ponies away from the Indians?
32525Did-- did it sound like some one groaning?
32525Do any Indians come in?
32525Do n''t you know the way home?
32525Do n''t you see things moving around in it?
32525Do n''t you want to come in?
32525Do n''t you wish_ we_ could go, Jan?
32525Do they hide?
32525Do what?
32525Do you know the way?
32525Do you live here?
32525Do you mean run and play tag?
32525Do you s''pose that funny Chinaman would give us a cookie, Jan?
32525Do you s''pose we''ll find any Indians?
32525Do you see that white house over there?
32525Do you think Trouble is following us?
32525Do you think you can find those rocks, Ted?
32525Does he live down in that hole?
32525Done what?
32525Eh? 32525 Everything all right?"
32525Glood clake?
32525Go where?
32525Got any cookies?
32525Groan? 32525 Has the pony been poisoned?"
32525Have you a Chinese cook?
32525Have you any picture books for these Curlytops of mine?
32525Have you given Circle O a new name?
32525Have you got a lasso?
32525Have you seen Trouble?
32525He could n''t be an Indian, could he?
32525He does n''t know we came off alone, does he?
32525Hear him groan?
32525How are they going to get the engine back on the track?
32525How are we going to find our way back home, Ted?
32525How can you play cowboy with cookies and blankets?
32525How do we do it?
32525How do you do it?
32525How do you know?
32525How do you know?
32525How do you know?
32525How do you know?
32525How do you like it?
32525How often have I told you not to call the men by their nicknames?
32525How would you like that?
32525I thought the Indian men always kept the prisoners, and you were a prisoner, were n''t you?
32525I wonder where he can have gone?
32525I wonder where that goat is?
32525I wonder whose they are?
32525If you please,began Teddy,"will you come and cure Clipclap?"
32525In a cave?
32525Indians?
32525Is Clipclap?
32525Is Trouble there with you?
32525Is all this your land, Uncle Frank?
32525Is he a_ tame_ Indian?
32525Is he going to be_ all_ yours?
32525Is he lost, too?
32525Is it very far?
32525Is n''t it just wonderful,said Mother Martin,"to think of sitting down to a nice meal which is being cooked for us while the train goes so fast?
32525Is she busted?
32525Is that a_ real_ Indian, Uncle Frank?
32525Is that what they did?
32525Is there any danger here?
32525Is there bears out there, too?
32525Is this the Indians''trail?
32525It would be fun if we had our goat here, would n''t it?
32525It''s just like hide- and- go- seek, is n''t it, Uncle Frank?
32525It''s like a game of tag, is n''t it?
32525Lil''gal hungly-- li''boy hungly?
32525Matter with what, Jan?
32525Me go too?
32525More horses stolen?
32525Nicknack not come wif us?
32525No more lasso?
32525Not even when they have ponies?
32525Now about this sick----"Is some one ill?
32525Oh, are you hurt?
32525Oh, ca n''t I come?
32525Oh, did n''t you hear Daddy say they were tame ones-- like the kind in the circus and Wild West show? 32525 Oh, do you know him?"
32525Oh, was it? 32525 Oh, what is it?"
32525Oh, what is it?
32525Oh, what will you do next?
32525Oh, where can they be?
32525Oh, where''d you get it?
32525One from Ring Rosy Ranch?
32525Pony rides?
32525Real bullets? 32525 Saluted us?"
32525Say, I wish we_ could_ go, do n''t you, Janet?
32525Shall we be at Uncle Frank''s ranch in an hour?
32525Shall we have good things to eat on Uncle Frank''s ranch?
32525So it''s a collision, is it? 32525 Suppose they should be hurt?"
32525Teddy,she asked,"are we-- are we-- lost?"
32525Teddy-- Janet-- what''s all that noise?
32525The Ring Rosy Ranch, is it? 32525 Then ca n''t he be our pony?"
32525Then did n''t the Indians hurt you?
32525Then did we save his life?
32525Then what''ll_ I_ be?
32525Then why ca n''t we come? 32525 Then why do n''t you go with the children and get Jim to help you find out what the matter is with their pony?"
32525They have?
32525They have?
32525Trouble, did you open a box of candy the boy left in your seat?
32525Trouble, does it hurt you anywhere?
32525Trouble? 32525 Want to help me fly this?
32525Was he wild once?
32525Was there a lot of Indians?
32525Well, anyhow-- well, would n''t you give me some chocolate candy if you had some, and I had n''t?
32525Well, can I see the Indians after you catch''em?
32525Well, children, what can I do for you?
32525Well, did n''t I find him?
32525Well, did you have a nice time?
32525Well, what are you going to do now?
32525Well, what_ are_ you making?
32525Well, where in the world have you been?
32525Were n''t you afraid?
32525What are the dots?
32525What are you doing here?
32525What are you doing?
32525What are you going to do, Ted?
32525What are you going to do, Teddy Martin?
32525What are you going to do?
32525What are you looking at?
32525What are you looking for?
32525What are you looking for?
32525What are you two youngsters worrying about, Teddy and Janet?
32525What can we do?
32525What could we do with two?
32525What do you s''pose they want?
32525What do you suppose could happen?
32525What do you want to do, Teddy?
32525What do you want to play then, Ted?
32525What does he say?
32525What for?
32525What happened?
32525What in the world can be the matter with my hens?
32525What is it, Dick?
32525What is it?
32525What is it?
32525What is it?
32525What is it?
32525What is it?
32525What is it?
32525What made Clipclap stumble?
32525What makes the ponies go so slow?
32525What makes them shoot?
32525What they run around like that for?
32525What you got, Trouble?
32525What you got?
32525What''d you hear?
32525What''ll they say?
32525What''ll we do with Nicknack then?
32525What''ll we play?
32525What''s he been doing?
32525What''s that?
32525What''s that?
32525What''s the matter now, Curlytops?
32525What''s the matter now?
32525What''s the matter, Henry?
32525What''s the matter, Ted?
32525What''s the matter, Teddy?
32525What''s the matter?
32525What''s the matter?
32525What''s the matter?
32525What''s the trail, Daddy?
32525What? 32525 What?
32525What?
32525What?
32525What?
32525What?
32525What?
32525What?
32525Where are we going first?
32525Where did you go?
32525Where did you see the Indians?
32525Where in the world can he be? 32525 Where''d you get that curly hair?"
32525Where''ll we find one?
32525Where''ll we go?
32525Where''s that?
32525Where''s that?
32525Where?
32525Where?
32525Which way do we go now?
32525Which way do we go?
32525Who are coming?
32525Who are you talking to?
32525Who do you s''pose dropped that bundle?
32525Who here?
32525Who is it?
32525Who pushed me out of bed?
32525Who''s the cowboy you sent to see about the ponies?
32525Who; the cowboys?
32525Whose pony is it?
32525Why are you worrying about that?
32525Why ca n''t I see what that is?
32525Why did n''t you come on and race with me? 32525 Why do n''t you try something else besides a post?"
32525Why not, Uncle Frank?
32525Why not?
32525Why not?
32525Why not?
32525Why, what in the world put into your head the idea that we should see Indians?
32525Why, what''s the matter, Jan?
32525Why, what''s the matter?
32525Why?
32525Why?
32525Why?
32525Will I come and cure him? 32525 Will he die?"
32525Will they do it?
32525Will they have a house to sleep in?
32525Will we have to stay here all night?
32525Will you, truly?
32525Wo n''t they be hungry?
32525Wo n''t they be hungry?
32525Wo n''t we, boys?
32525Would you run and leave me all alone?
32525Yes? 32525 You could stay here, and I could cover up my ears with my hands when you came to the terrible parts, could n''t I?
32525You did n''t see anything of Trouble and the goat, did you?
32525You mean Mr. Frank Barton, of the Circle O?
32525You mean Uncle Frank''s?
32525You mean at the spring in the rocks where Jan and I found Clipclap in the cave?
32525You mean my rope? 32525 You wo n''t hurt him, will you?"
32525You would n''t like to sleep on the ground with only a blanket for a bed, would you?
32525You''re not going to lasso him, are you?
32525Your little brother?
32525A ghost, eh?"
32525A pony?"
32525Again the groan sounded, this time not quite so loud, and after it had died away Teddy called:"Who''s in there?
32525Anyway there are n''t any Indians to hunt on Uncle Frank''s ranch, are there, Dick?"
32525Are any of the cowboys out there to help you saddle?"
32525Are you going to live here?"
32525At last she asked:"Do you see the rocks?"
32525Baldy?"
32525But Ted was no sooner in the saddle than he turned to his sister and said:"Jan, why ca n''t we go riding the trail after the Indians?"
32525But as soon as she could turn around she rode back to him and asked anxiously:"Are you hurt, Ted?"
32525But how can we?
32525But will you please come and cure him so we can have a ride on him?
32525CHAPTER IV THE COLLISION"Wo n''t we have fun, Jan, when we get to the ranch?"
32525CHAPTER XIV LOOKING FOR INDIANS"Ca n''t we come along?"
32525Ca n''t you smile?"
32525Can I give it to him, Ted?"
32525Did you say you saw some cows and horses?"
32525Do n''t they, Mother?"
32525Do n''t you remember I told you they always take something to eat with them when they go out this way?
32525Do n''t you remember the one we saw at the station?"
32525Do n''t you wish you could have some of their curl put into your hair?"
32525Do n''t you, Jan?"
32525Do you hear?"
32525Do you think I can, Uncle Frank?"
32525Him?
32525His brother and sister did not notice him until, all at once, Janet, missing her little brother, cried:"Where''s Trouble?"
32525How many are there?"
32525I went right over his head; did n''t I Janet?"
32525Is he lost?"
32525Is the goat''s harness in the stable?"
32525Is there any parts in it that is n''t scary?
32525Like to hear''em?"
32525Nobody been shot, has there, during the celebration?"
32525Oh, are n''t you going to play any more, Ted?"
32525Some of''em sick?"
32525The arrow part is what you shoot, is n''t it, Ted?"
32525Time for supper_ again_?"
32525We two alone?"
32525What are you disputing about now?"
32525What for?"
32525What good is a broom for a gun?
32525What seems to be the trouble?"
32525What would you like, something to read or something to eat?"
32525What''s that?
32525What''s the matter with you?"
32525What''s the matter?
32525When did it happen?
32525Where are you?"
32525Where have you been?"
32525Where were you?"
32525Who are you?"
32525Who did you say it was?"
32525Who ever heard of a nurse taking the medicine from a sick soldier?"
32525Why do n''t you get the cowboys together and chase after the men who took the ponies?"
32525Wo n''t you be?"
32525Wo n''t you?"
32525Wonder if you got mine?"
32525You ca n''t put it on his tongue, can you?"
32525You come to find me?"
32525You do n''t mind, though, do you, Teddy?"
32525You know the kind of marks a horse''s foot makes, do n''t you, Jan?"
32525You stay and watch me, Jan.""What are you going to do?"
32525_ The Curlytops at Uncle Frank''s Ranch__ Page 65_]"Are the Indians near here?"
32525called Uncle Frank to the copper- faced man in the blanket,"sell many baskets to- day?"
32525cried Mrs. Martin, catching the little fellow up in her arms,"are you hurt?"
32525did you let the horses out?"
32525he cried,"what''s the matter?"
32525that''s the way bucking broncos always do, do n''t they, Daddy?
32525where are you?"
32525who ever heard of a soldier getting sick on cake?
32525who''s goin''to cry?"
6814A cat''s cradle?
6814A lot of my ponies stolen?
6814A real one?
6814A soft- foot? 6814 A squaw is a Indian lady, is n''t she?"
6814A wagon with ponies?
6814An''did n''t you catch noffin for me?
6814And are daddy and Uncle Frank looking for these horses and cattle?
6814And can I ask them to make me a bow and arrows?
6814And can we take Nicknack with us, to ride around the ranch?
6814And did they have your cattle with them?
6814And do the Indians ride on ahead and try to get away?
6814And how will you catch them?
6814And if you do go, Uncle Frank, please ca n''t I go too?
6814And if you get any Indians will you bring''em here?
6814And what are we going to do all night?
6814And what''s a soft- foot, Uncle Frank?
6814And who does he think took the horses?
6814And will you show me how to lasso?
6814Are the Indians near here?
6814Are the cowboys coming in to eat with us?
6814Are there any Indians out there?
6814Are they cowboys?
6814Are they shooting real bullets, Uncle Frank?
6814Are they very wild?
6814Are you afraid?
6814Are you going in?
6814Are you going to look any more?
6814Are you going?
6814Are you hurt? 6814 Are you really going after Indians?"
6814Are you scared?
6814Bad news about the ponies?
6814Bad news, is it?
6814Bears and Indians?
6814But I ca n''t give you half the pony, can I?
6814But I can lasso good, ca n''t I?
6814But hell give him back to us when we come home, wo n''t he?
6814But how can you give medicine to a horse, Jim? 6814 But how can you?"
6814But is he here?
6814But where do you live?
6814But where is Trouble?
6814But where is the ranch?
6814But will we have to stay out here all night?
6814But-- the Indians?
6814Buy what?
6814Ca n''t I come?
6814Ca n''t I go out and watch''em?
6814Ca n''t I wide, Uncle Frank? 6814 Ca n''t we ever see any?"
6814Ca n''t we take him home?
6814Ca n''t you come and cure the sick pony?
6814Ca n''t you find the rocks and let them rest and get a drink? 6814 Ca n''t you ride without a saddle?"
6814Can we go to see''em?
6814Can we learn to ride a pony to- day?
6814Can we take Nicknack?
6814Can you make him better?
6814Could I go if I knew how to ride a pony, Uncle Frank?
6814Could I just have a little ride on your pony''s back?
6814Could n''t you find him?
6814Could n''t you take a broom for a gun?
6814Could we give him a little ride on our ponies?
6814Could we have ponies to ride?
6814Could you show us where the Indians are that took Uncle Frank''s ponies?
6814Did I hurt you much?
6814Did Uncle Frank find his ponies?
6814Did he step in a hole?
6814Did it hurt?
6814Did n''t Uncle Frank meet us and did n''t Daddy tell us we''d have to drive to the ranch?
6814Did our train bunk into another?
6814Did the cowboys come back with the Indians?
6814Did you catch the Indians?
6814Did you ever get captured by the Indians?
6814Did you find them?
6814Did you hear that, Ted?
6814Did you hear that?
6814Did you open the gate?
6814Did you see them?
6814Did you take these ponies away from the Indians?
6814Did-- did it sound like some one groaning?
6814Do any Indians come in?
6814Do n''t you know the way home?
6814Do n''t you see things moving around in it?
6814Do n''t you want to come in?
6814Do n''t you wish_ we_ could go, Jan?
6814Do they hide?
6814Do what?
6814Do you know the way?
6814Do you live here?
6814Do you mean run and play tag?
6814Do you s''pose that funny Chinaman would give us a cookie, Jan?
6814Do you s''pose we''ll find any Indians?
6814Do you see that white house over there?
6814Do you think Trouble is following us?
6814Do you think you can find those rocks, Ted?
6814Does he live down in that hole?
6814Done what?
6814Eh? 6814 Everything all right?"
6814Glood clake?
6814Go where?
6814Got any cookies?
6814Groan? 6814 Has the pony been poisoned?"
6814Have you a Chinese cook?
6814Have you any picture books for these Curlytops of mine?
6814Have you given Circle O a new name?
6814Have you got a lasso?
6814Have you seen Trouble?
6814He could n''t be an Indian, could he?
6814He does n''t know we came off alone, does he?
6814Hear him groan?
6814How are they going to get the engine back on the track?
6814How are we going to find our way back home, Ted?
6814How can you play cowboy with cookies and blankets?
6814How do we do it?
6814How do you do it?
6814How do you know?
6814How do you know?
6814How do you know?
6814How do you know?
6814How do you like it?
6814How often have I told you not to call the men by their nicknames?
6814How would you like that?
6814I thought the Indian men always kept the prisoners, and you were a prisoner, were n''t you?
6814I wonder where he can have gone?
6814I wonder where that goat is?
6814I wonder whose they are?
6814If you please,began Teddy,"will you come and cure Clipclap?"
6814In a cave?
6814Indians?
6814Is Clipclap?
6814Is Trouble there with you?
6814Is he a_ tame_ Indian?
6814Is he going to be_ all_ yours?
6814Is he lost, too?
6814Is it very far?
6814Is n''t it just wonderful,said Mother Martin,"to think of sitting down to a nice meal which is being cooked for us while the train goes so fast?
6814Is she busted?
6814Is that a_ real_ Indian, Uncle Frank?
6814Is that what they did?
6814Is there any danger here?
6814Is there bears out there, too?
6814Is this the Indians''trail?
6814It would be fun if we had our goat here, would n''t it?
6814It''s just like hide- and- go- seek, is n''t it, Uncle Frank?
6814It''s like a game of tag, is n''t it?
6814Lil''gal hungly-- li''boy hungly?
6814Matter with what, Jan?
6814Me go too?
6814More horses stolen?
6814Nicknack not come wif us?
6814No more lasso?
6814Not even when they have ponies?
6814Now about this sick--"Is some one ill?
6814Oh, are you hurt?
6814Oh, ca n''t I come?
6814Oh, did n''t you hear Daddy say they were tame ones-- like the kind in the circus and Wild West show? 6814 Oh, do you know him?"
6814Oh, was it? 6814 Oh, what is it?"
6814Oh, what is it?
6814Oh, what will you do next?
6814Oh, where can they be?
6814Oh, where''d you get it?
6814One from Ring Rosy Ranch?
6814Pony rides?
6814Real bullets? 6814 Saluted us?"
6814Say, I wish we_ could_ go, do n''t you, Janet?
6814Shall we be at Uncle Frank''s ranch in an hour?
6814Shall we have good things to eat on Uncle Frank''s ranch?
6814So it''s a collision, is it? 6814 Suppose they should be hurt?"
6814Teddy,she asked,"are we-- are we-- lost?"
6814Teddy-- Janet-- what''s all that noise?
6814The Ring Rosy Ranch, is it? 6814 Then ca n''t he be our pony?"
6814Then did n''t the Indians hurt you?
6814Then did we save his life?
6814Then what''ll_ I_ be?
6814Then why ca n''t we come? 6814 Then why do n''t you go with the children and get Jim to help you find out what the matter is with their pony?"
6814They have?
6814They have?
6814Trouble, did you open a box of candy the boy left in your seat?
6814Trouble, does it hurt you anywhere?
6814Trouble? 6814 Want to help me fly this?
6814Was he wild once?
6814Was there a lot of Indians?
6814Well, anyhow-- well, would n''t you give me some chocolate candy if you had some, and I had n''t?
6814Well, can I see the Indians after you catch''em?
6814Well, children, what can I do for you?
6814Well, did n''t I find him?'''' 6814 Well, did you have a nice time?"
6814Well, what are you going to do now?
6814Well, what_ are_ you making?
6814Well, where in the world have you been?
6814Were n''t you afraid?
6814What are the dots?
6814What are you doing here?
6814What are you doing?
6814What are you going to do, Ted?
6814What are you going to do, Teddy Martin?
6814What are you going to do?
6814What are you looking at?
6814What are you looking for?
6814What are you looking for?
6814What are you two youngsters worrying about, Teddy and Janet?
6814What can we do?
6814What could we do with two?
6814What do you s''pose they want?
6814What do you suppose could happen?
6814What do you want to do, Teddy?
6814What do you want to play then, Ted?
6814What does he say?
6814What for?
6814What happened?
6814What in the world can be the matter with my hens?
6814What is it, Dick?
6814What is it?
6814What is it?
6814What is it?
6814What is it?
6814What is it?
6814What is it?
6814What made Clipclap stumble?
6814What makes the ponies go so slow?
6814What makes them shoot?
6814What they run around like that for?
6814What you got, Trouble?
6814What you got?
6814What''d you hear?
6814What''ll they say?
6814What''ll we do with Nicknack then?
6814What''ll we play?
6814What''s he been doing?
6814What''s that?
6814What''s that?
6814What''s the matter now, Curlytops?
6814What''s the matter now?
6814What''s the matter, Henry?
6814What''s the matter, Ted?
6814What''s the matter, Teddy?
6814What''s the matter?
6814What''s the matter?
6814What''s the matter?
6814What''s the trail, Daddy?
6814What? 6814 What?
6814What?
6814What?
6814What?
6814What?
6814What?
6814What?
6814Where are we going first?
6814Where did you go?
6814Where did you see the Indians?
6814Where in the world can he be? 6814 Where''d you get that curly hair?"
6814Where''ll we find one?
6814Where''ll we go?
6814Where''s that?
6814Where''s that?
6814Where?
6814Where?
6814Which way do we go now?
6814Which way do we go?
6814Who are coming?
6814Who are you talking to?
6814Who do you s''pose dropped that bundle?
6814Who here?
6814Who pushed me out of bed?
6814Who''s the cowboy you sent to see about the ponies?
6814Who; the cowboys?
6814Whose pony is it?
6814Why are you worrying about that?
6814Why ca n''t I see what that is?
6814Why did n''t you come on and race with me? 6814 Why do n''t you try something else besides a post?"
6814Why not, Uncle Frank?
6814Why not?
6814Why not?
6814Why not?
6814Why, what''s the matter, Jan?
6814Why, what''s the matter?
6814Why?
6814Why?
6814Why?
6814Will I come and cure him? 6814 Will he die?"
6814Will they do it?
6814Will they have a house to sleep in?
6814Will we have to stay here all night?
6814Will you, truly?
6814Wo n''t they be hungry?
6814Wo n''t they be hungry?
6814Wo n''t we, boys?
6814Would you run and leave me all alone?
6814Yes? 6814 You could stay here, and I could cover up my ears with my hands when you came to the terrible parts, could n''t I?
6814You did n''t see anything of Trouble and the goat, did you?
6814You mean Mr. Frank Barton, of the Circle O?
6814You mean at the spring in the rocks where Jan and I found Clipclap in the cave?
6814You mean my rope? 6814 You wo n''t hurt him, will you?"
6814You would n''t like to sleep on the ground with only a blanket for a bed, would you?
6814You''re not going to lasso_ him,_ are you?
6814Your little brother?
6814A ghost, eh?"
6814A pony?"
6814Again the groan sounded, this time not quite so loud, and after it had died away Teddy called:"Who''s in there?
6814Anyway there are n''t any Indians to hunt on Uncle Frank''s ranch, are there, Dick?"
6814Are any of the cowboys out there to help you saddle?"
6814Are you going to live here?"
6814At last she asked:"Do you see the rocks?"
6814Baldy?"
6814Bond, coming in from the chicken yard just then, in time to hear her husband''s last words,"Who is it?"
6814But Ted was no sooner in the saddle than he turned to his sister and said:"Jan, why ca n''t we go riding the trail after the Indians?"
6814But as soon as she could turn around she rode back to him and asked anxiously:"Are you hurt, Ted?"
6814But how can we?
6814But will you please come and cure him so we can have a ride on him?
6814CHAPTER IV THE COLLISION"Wo n''t we have fun, Jan, when we get to the ranch?"
6814CHAPTER XIV LOOKING FOR INDIANS"Ca n''t we come along?"
6814Ca n''t you smile?"
6814Can I give it to him, Ted?"
6814Do n''t they, Mother?"
6814Do n''t you remember I told you they always take something to eat with them when they go out this way?
6814Do n''t you remember the one we saw at the station?"
6814Do n''t you wish you could have some of their curl put into your hair?"
6814Do n''t you, Jan?"
6814Do you hear?"
6814Do you think I can, Uncle Frank?"
6814Him?
6814His brother and sister did not notice him until, all at once, Janet, missing her little brother, cried:"Where''s Trouble?"
6814How did he happen to fall?"
6814How many are there?"
6814I went right over his head; did n''t I Janet?"
6814Is he lost?"
6814Is the goat''s harness in the stable?"
6814Is there any parts in it that is n''t scary?
6814Like to hear''em?"
6814Nobody been shot, has there, during the celebration?"
6814Oh, are n''t you going to play any more, Ted?"
6814Some of''em sick?"
6814The arrow part is what you shoot, is n''t it, Ted?"
6814Then Jan came along, and, as soon as he saw her, Teddy asked:"Jan, will you do something for me?"
6814Time for supper_ again_?"
6814We two alone?"
6814What are you disputing about now?"
6814What for?"
6814What good is a broom for a gun?
6814What seems to be the trouble?"
6814What would you like, something to read or something to eat?"
6814What''s that?
6814What''s the matter with you?"
6814What''s the matter?
6814When did it happen?
6814Where are you?"
6814Where have you been?"
6814Where were you?"
6814Who are you?"
6814Who did you say it was?"
6814Who ever heard of a nurse taking the medicine from a sick soldier?"
6814Why do n''t you get the cowboys together and chase after the men who took the ponies?"
6814Wo n''t you be?"
6814Wo n''t you?"
6814Wonder if you got mine?"
6814You ca n''t put it on his tongue, can you?"
6814You come to find me?"
6814You do n''t mind, though, do you, Teddy?"
6814You know the kind of marks a horse''s foot makes, do n''t you, Jan?"
6814You stay and watch me, Jan.""What are you going to do?"
6814called Uncle Frank to the copper- faced man in the blanket,"sell many baskets to- day?"
6814cried Mrs. Martin, catching the little fellow up in her arms,"are you hurt?"
6814did you let the horses out?"
6814exclaimed his mother,"Why, what in the world put into your head the idea that we should see Indians?"
6814he cried,"what''s the matter?"
6814that''s the way bucking broncos always do, do n''t they, Daddy?
6814where are you?"
6814who ever heard of a soldier getting sick on cake?
6814who''s goin''to cry?"
26182A donkey? 26182 A house?"
26182A poem on snakes?
26182A printing press?
26182A thief, eh?
26182A what?
26182Abandoned the ranch?
26182Afraid of outlaws?
26182Afraid?
26182Ai n''t dat so?
26182Ai n''t it all''right?
26182Alone?
26182An''do you reckon I''m goin''to let the boss take the price out o''my wages?
26182And do you know who is in the wagon, on the rear seat?
26182And the horse?
26182And the man ran away?
26182And were you really hurled overboard?
26182And you wo n''t tell us whose road this is?
26182Any bear steaks, or salmon eggs?
26182Any quail on toast?
26182Are all the men going to leave?
26182Are there any wild animals around here?
26182Are yo''gwine to shut up?
26182Are you alone?
26182Are you alone?
26182Are you an officer?
26182Are you aware that he came close to hurting us? 26182 Are you boys going to tell me the plain truth, or not?"
26182Are you certain of this?
26182Are you fellows going to sleep?
26182Are you going to blame me for going wrong?
26182Are you going to give us a pretty good supper, Aleck?
26182Are you going to mind?
26182Are you hurt, Grace?
26182Are you hurt?
26182Are you hurt?
26182Are you on foot?
26182Are you perfectly safe, Sam?
26182Are you safe?
26182Are you sure it ai n''t no catpob?
26182Are you sure it was Baxter?
26182Baxter, have you joined this crowd?
26182Bound for the Denton plantation, so I hear?
26182Bud Cashaw? 26182 Build our own camp fire, and all that?"
26182But I do n''t see so much as a cow, do you?
26182But did n''t you recognize the other?
26182But had n''t we better get inside again? 26182 But what''s his game?"
26182But why did they have it covered with hay?
26182By the way, how''s your heart?
26182By the way, who was your friend?
26182By the way,he went on,"do you know a man around these parts named Sack Todd?"
26182Ca n''t we go on horseback?
26182Ca n''t we pick out one or two stones?
26182Can I help you in any way?
26182Can I trust you boys to keep a secret?
26182Can he be following us?
26182Can you get a hold?
26182Can you guess whom?
26182Caught you good and proper, did n''t we?
26182Coming?
26182Counterfeit money, you mean?
26182Crime? 26182 Den vot of der Rofer poys?"
26182Den vy not do dot?
26182Dere do n''t been noddings to laugh at by a murder, not so?
26182Dick, ca n''t you see it?
26182Dick, what shall we do now?
26182Did anybody call?
26182Did anybody else see them?
26182Did he bite you?
26182Did it kill anybody?
26182Did n''t I, though?
26182Did n''t he come in on the wagon?
26182Did n''t he hurt you at all?
26182Did n''t we strike something, Captain?
26182Did n''t you deserve it?
26182Did n''t you say that I looked like your son Bud?
26182Did n''t you see Tom?
26182Did n''t you try to get away?
26182Did the raft stop here?
26182Did the snag poke a hole into us?
26182Did the tree knock you overboard?
26182Did ye ever hear of Pluggins?
26182Did you fire those shots?
26182Did you fish me out?
26182Did you hear?
26182Did you intend to stay at the ranch?
26182Did you mean to said dere vos a house floating der rifer town, Dick Rofer?
26182Did you see anything of my watch?
26182Did you see anything of two strangers last night?
26182Did you see those two boys last night or not?
26182Do I know him? 26182 Do n''t I, though?
26182Do n''t you believe in ghosts, Hans?
26182Do n''t you know Dick and me? 26182 Do n''t you know that these men are counterfeiters?"
26182Do n''t you remember, the tree knocked you overboard?
26182Do n''t you see the wires? 26182 Do we need anything in particular in the shape of provisions?"
26182Do you belong in town, or out here?
26182Do you hear?
26182Do you imagine they will find Tom and the others?
26182Do you know Bud Cashaw?
26182Do you know that Lew Flapp is under arrest?
26182Do you know the way to Mr. Carson Denton''s plantation?
26182Do you know what I think? 26182 Do you know what I think?"
26182Do you live at Red Rock ranch?
26182Do you live here now?
26182Do you mean that for me?
26182Do you mean those rascals might leave them in the ranch, prisoners?
26182Do you think he is still following the houseboat?
26182Do you think he will make more trouble?
26182Do you think that lumber raft will tie up somewhere below here?
26182Do you think the ranch is surrounded?
26182Do you think there are any rattlers here?
26182Do you think we are on the wrong trail?
26182Do you want him back?
26182Do you want to turn back, Sam?
26182Do you work steadily for Sack Todd?
26182Does Sack Todd know him?
26182Does he run the ranch for a living?
26182Does he treat you kindly?
26182Down below?
26182Eh?
26182Eh?
26182Eh?
26182Eh?
26182Fooling? 26182 For how long?"
26182Forget what?
26182Found out you was n''t me, eh?
26182Getting ready to leave, stranger?
26182Give me a chance fust?
26182Go for help?
26182Got a light?
26182Had about enough, eh?
26182Had n''t we better place the horses in the woods and investigate?
26182Had n''t we better stop him?
26182Hans, what will you take for him?
26182Has Bud ever been to Red Rock ranch?
26182Has he really joined?
26182Has n''t a house got a right to take a float if it wants to? 26182 Has we struck a stone wall?"
26182Have they come back, Tom?
26182Have they got back?
26182Have we got enough provisions on hand until to- morrow?
26182Have you a horse here?
26182He told you that, did he?
26182Hi, what''s the matter here?
26182Horses?
26182How about butterflies''wings on toast?
26182How about fifty dollars?
26182How did you escape?
26182How did you get here so quickly?
26182How do you do, Dick Rover?
26182How do you do, boys?
26182How do you like it, Wags, old boy?
26182How in the world did you get here?
26182How in the world did you get here?
26182How many did you catch?
26182How many were there in your party?
26182How much do you think we ought to pay?
26182How much longer are you going to stay here?
26182How will that do?
26182How?
26182Hullo, what do you want?
26182Hullo, what''s that?
26182Hullo, what''s up here?
26182I must say this adds to the mystery, does n''t it, boys?
26182I reckon you remember him?
26182I suppose that other fellow came back with an officer, did n''t he?
26182I suppose the others have gone on?
26182I suppose you are on a case down here?
26182I won- der what the next act in this drama will be?
26182I wonder if anybody lives here?
26182I wonder if he would be any good after game?
26182I wonder if it is the party that went to look for Tom and the others?
26182I wonder if that one stopped here that tried to run us down?
26182I wonder where Sam and Dick are?
26182I''se ready to go to work fo''you, sah,said each, and added:"Kin I hab dat dollah?"
26182If he was, why did n''t he stop us, then?
26182If that is farming machinery, why are they taking it into the house?
26182If they are still prisoners, what will become of them?
26182If they go, what will they do with us?
26182In what way? 26182 In what way?"
26182Is anybody hurt?
26182Is anybody to stay on guard to- night?
26182Is dot so?
26182Is he a spy?
26182Is he dead?
26182Is he sure it''s a counterfeit?
26182Is it a good road?
26182Is it a private road?
26182Is it really too shallow?
26182Is it? 26182 Is n''t the steer worth something as meat?"
26182Is n''t this the trail to Caville?
26182Is she moving?
26182Is that so? 26182 Is that your name-- Peter?"
26182Is there an old man working for him-- a fellow with thin shoulders and reddish hair?
26182Is there another way?
26182Is there any danger?
26182Is this where you intend to keep us?
26182It might be that you are related to him?
26182Kind of a sign to set a feller to thinkin'', eh?
26182Left-- for good?
26182Look here, what does this mean?
26182Look out? 26182 Lost?"
26182Mape I vos make some boultry vonce, ai n''t it?
26182May I ask what you are doing here?
26182Maybe of you vos killed, you vould sit ub and laugh at him, hey?
26182Maybe you''d like to have a taste of this?
26182Maype you did n''t haf some ghosts drouble you?
26182Me?
26182Might I ask your name?
26182Mine life insured?
26182Now, do me a favor, will you?
26182Now, the question arises: what is best to do next?
26182Now, vosn''t dot lofly alretty?
26182Now, what''s to do?
26182Oh, Dick, are we really aground?
26182Oh, Dick, do you think he will try to harm us further?
26182Oh, Dick, do you think there is any danger?
26182Oh, Tom, you would n''t have shot him, would you?
26182Oh, but would n''t it be fine on such a hot day as this?
26182Old boy, you know we are worried, do n''t you?
26182Or milkweed stewed in onion fat?
26182Out for a day''s sport?
26182Pepper?
26182Perhaps he is the fellow Mr. Monday is watching?
26182Peter must not--"Peter, do you want to be drowned in the river?
26182Peter what?
26182Prisoners?
26182Put blease ton''t forgot dat da pistols haf got, und da can shoot, hey?
26182Quite a party o''ye, hain''t there?
26182Sam?
26182Say, Massa Tom, ai n''t you a- foolin''dis darkey?
26182Say, are this a hold- up?
26182Say, is my pap anywhere around this yere ranch?
26182Say, whar''s my pap?
26182Say, what you a- talkin''about?
26182See here, do you think you are treating me fairly?
26182See here, you young imp, do you mean to call me a-- er-- a donkey?
26182Shall we join in?
26182Shall we put him with the rest?
26182So Sack Todd is rich?
26182So this is your style, eh?
26182So we meet again, Baxter?
26182So you escaped, after all? 26182 So you know these fellows?"
26182So you''re going to take a hand, eh?
26182So you''ve got yourselves in a nice pickle, eh?
26182Spooky?
26182Starving you?
26182Suh?
26182Supposing some wild animals came along to eat us up?
26182Supposing those men on the ranch come after us? 26182 Supposing we do n''t turn back?"
26182Tell me, how many were in your party?
26182That ai n''t payin''for the critter, is it?
26182That means as how I''m to stay whether I want to or not, eh?
26182The question is, now that we have learned so much: what''s to do about it?
26182The question is: how are we going to find the trail again?
26182Then we wo n''t have to go ashore for anything?
26182Then you do fear Baxter, Dick?
26182Then you do n''t intend to let us go?
26182Then you sent for help?
26182Then you would n''t run if you saw a ghost?
26182They sha n''t slip us; eh, Spud?
26182This is not the right trail, is it?
26182Tom, are you going to stay awake to watch the dog?
26182Ton''t you been afraid of dot beast?
26182True, but I want to know where I am swimming to, do n''t you?
26182Two boys about my own age?
26182Unless what?
26182Ve can haf some nice steak ven ve go into camp next dime, hey?
26182Vell, ton''t I vos here, too?
26182Vendilations, hey? 26182 Vere is dot horse?"
26182Vot for?
26182Vot has der porkerpint to do mit your hair?
26182Vot has mince bie to do mit boultry?
26182Vot is a popcat?
26182Vot is der madder mit cutting him ub for meats?
26182Vot kind of a play is dot Shakespeares?
26182Vot shall ve do?
26182Vot you laffin''at, hey?
26182Vot you said apout a stage?
26182Vot''s der madder, vos he a robber?
26182Vot''s dot?
26182Wade out in the mud?
26182Want to get there the easiest way possible, I reckon?
26182Want to scalp a few noble red men?
26182Wanted to shoot me, did n''t ye?
26182Was he killed?
26182Was he yours?
26182Was n''t he with you?
26182Was n''t it all right?
26182We ai n''t goin''to run no risks, understand? 26182 Well, he has told some truth anyway, for if Sam and Dick are free, why do n''t they show up here?"
26182Well, if I am, what of it?
26182Well, what do you intend to do keep us prisoners?
26182Well, what do you propose?
26182Well, what is it, then?
26182Well, why did n''t you look out for ruts?
26182Were they made prisoners?
26182Were they on horseback?
26182Wha-- what hit me?
26182Wha-- what''s dat?
26182Wha-- who are you?
26182What I want to know is: what do you intend to do with us?
26182What about the boy?
26182What about?
26182What are we going to do when night comes on? 26182 What are we to do just now?"
26182What are you doing here?
26182What are you going to do next?
26182What are you going to do with them?
26182What are you going to do with us?
26182What are you looking for?
26182What are you shooting for?
26182What business is that of yours?
26182What can you give me for dinner?
26182What did that shot mean?
26182What did you drop?
26182What did you say?
26182What do ye want to know fer?
26182What do you call this?
26182What do you do there?
26182What do you make of it, Dick?
26182What do you make of it, now?
26182What do you make of it?
26182What do you mean by that?
26182What do you mean?
26182What do you see?
26182What do you take them to be?
26182What do you think that can be?
26182What do you want me for?
26182What do you want of me?
26182What do you want''to know that for?
26182What does that mean?
26182What does this mean?
26182What fer?
26182What have I done?
26182What have beans to do with poetry?
26182What have you on the wagon?
26182What if I did?
26182What if I have?
26182What if it is n''t good?
26182What is it to be?
26182What is it?
26182What is it?
26182What is yer game, anyhow?
26182What letter?
26182What made you think there was something wrong with our internal machinery, whereby we might be wanting in a proper regard for victuals?
26182What made you think there was?
26182What of the others?
26182What of the prisoner?
26182What plan?
26182What put that into your noddle, Aleck?
26182What sort of an offer?
26182What were the men doing?
26182What will become of them?
26182What you a- talkin''about? 26182 What you want to know?"
26182What''s in the letter?
26182What''s that?
26182What''s the difference, so long as it passes?
26182What''s the matter with him?
26182What''s the matter?
26182What''s the matter?
26182What''s the matter?
26182What''s the news, Phil?
26182What''s the way, Hans?
26182What''s to be done about the steer?
26182What''s to be done?
26182What''s up now?
26182What''s up now?
26182What''s up now?
26182What''s wanted, boss?
26182What''s wrong now?
26182What''s wrong now?
26182What''s wrong, Hans?
26182What''s your name?
26182What''s your name?
26182What?
26182What?
26182What?
26182What?
26182Whe-- where does this lead to?
26182Where are Sam and Dick?
26182Where are the others?
26182Where are we going?
26182Where are you bound?
26182Where are you bound?
26182Where do you come from?
26182Where do you want Peter to go?
26182Where does it lead to?
26182Where is Bill Cashaw?
26182Where is it now?
26182Where is your brother?
26182Where shall we meet you?
26182Where to?
26182Where under the sun did you come from?
26182Where were the pair going?
26182Where were the prisoners put?
26182Where''s the dog?
26182Where''s the trail?
26182Where?
26182Where?
26182Which bill?
26182Which way now?
26182Who goes there?
26182Who is there?
26182Who said I was, then?
26182Who told you your dad was coming here?
26182Who vos dot?
26182Who wants to race?
26182Who went and shot that steer?
26182Who would n''t feel good on such a glorious morning as this?
26182Who-- where am I?
26182Whom do you suppose I saw on the road?
26182Why did n''t you wake me up?
26182Why do n''t you answer mine?
26182Why do n''t you finish him off, Puller?
26182Why not take our time and move on Red Rock ranch after dark?
26182Why not, Hansy, my boy?
26182Why not, I''d like to know? 26182 Why?"
26182Will he go back to the ranch, do you think?
26182Will you direct us to the right road?
26182Will you explain?
26182Will you leave us a light?
26182Will you let me have one of the horses?
26182Will you return my horses and wagon?
26182Will you stay with the boys until I return?
26182Will you tell us if that other trail runs to Caville?
26182With Mr. Sack Todd?
26182With the wagon?
26182Would they do that-- and leave us here? 26182 You are in our power, and the less you say, the better off you''ll be, see?"
26182You are sure it''s Sam?
26182You ca n''t fool me, suh,said the planter firmly.--"What, wo n''t you come after him?"
26182You came down the river on that big lumber raft, did n''t you?
26182You do n''t like it, do you?
26182You heard what Hans said about ghosts?
26182You mean Dan Baxter?
26182You mean it is a warning to keep away from Red Rock ranch?
26182You mean to- night?
26182You mean you are goin''to make me stay here?
26182You state positively that you do not belong to the crowd at the ranch?
26182You vos make a nice poem up apout dem snakes, hey?
26182Your watch?
26182Are they alive, or did they perish?"
26182Are you afraid to answer me?"
26182Are you all ready?"
26182Be still now, heah?"
26182But camping out makes such a difference, does n''t it, boys?
26182But dis am a queer country, ai n''t it?"
26182But how are we going to get out?
26182But would n''t you like an outing of that sort, just for a change?"
26182But, see here--""Do you know all the others at the ranch?"
26182CHAPTER VII A DAY ON THE ROAD"Vot kind of a horse you vos call dis, annahow?"
26182CHAPTER XVIII DICK AND SAM BECOME PRISONERS"Do you really think those are counterfeit, Dick?"
26182CHAPTER XXV IN WHICH TOM IS EXPOSED"Boy, who gave you this letter?"
26182Ca n''t he have all the spending money he wants?
26182Can the forest be on fire?"
26182Denton?"
26182Denton?"
26182Did n''t I go to school with him?
26182Did n''t expect to meet me ag''in, did ye?"
26182Did the grub suit ye?"
26182Did you ever see anything like it?"
26182Do n''t ye see the wire fence?"
26182Do n''t you love fire- fly fritters, especially when they are rolled in lemon skin and cheese?"
26182Do n''t you remember me?"
26182Do n''t you remember the machinery?
26182Do n''t you want a nap?"
26182Do you know what Todd said to me?
26182Do you know who this is?
26182Do you suppose I am going to argue with a kid like you?"
26182Do you suppose I am going to let you get out and blab about what you have discovered?"
26182Do you think I''ll allow a couple of boys to ruin me?
26182Friend o''yourn?"
26182Go to some ranch, or make our own camp?"
26182Going to stay in town, sah?"
26182Got your life insured?"
26182Had n''t yo''bettah gib me a dollah, sah?"
26182Hain''t I lived there nigh sixty- four years?"
26182Have any of you seen anything of Sam?"
26182Have n''t you any sense?"
26182Have ye a guide?"
26182Have you got the other one, Jimson?"
26182He turned to the boys:"Have you any friends near?"
26182How could I look out in such a pitchy darkness?"
26182How did you get here?"
26182How do you like it?"
26182How do you like that?"
26182How long vos dis to last, hey?"
26182I wonder how long it is going to last?"
26182Is n''t he here?"
26182Maype I vos hammer dot ghost, hey?"
26182Monday?"
26182Monday?"
26182Now, how did that happen?"
26182Odd case, was n''t it?"
26182One of them''personally conducted tours''a feller reads about in them magazines, eh?"
26182Peter must not tell--""Did Sack Todd see the boys?"
26182Prison?
26182Ready?"
26182Shall we ever, Or shall we never, Set the houseboat free?"
26182So they have feasts at the ranch, eh?"
26182Songbird, will you have it in tissue paper or a trunk?"
26182THE ROVER BOYS ON THE PLAINS CHAPTER I ON THE HOUSEBOAT"Say, Tom, what''s that big thing coming down the river?"
26182Tell me about''em, will you?"
26182That would suit, would n''t it?"
26182The one question is: where are we, and where is the right trail?"
26182Then you did n''t know the man?"
26182Then you really do n''t know what is going on at the ranch?
26182They gave you a fine scare, did n''t they?"
26182Vos it von of dem catpobs?"
26182Vot you know about him, hey?
26182Vot you vants to do, annahow, drow me your head ofer?
26182We might-- Hullo, what''s that?"
26182What are they doing here?"
26182What do you think it is?"
26182What do you want?"
26182What does he do at his ranch?"
26182What does this mean?"
26182What good will that do, if you have n''t any match?"
26182What has become of those we cherish?
26182What more does a fellow need?"
26182What place do you call this?"
26182What put such a notion in your head?"
26182Where are you bound?"
26182Where did you get it?"
26182Where does he live?"
26182Where''s my wagon and horses?"
26182Who is he?"
26182Wo n''t you han''ober dat dollah, sah?
26182You did n''t see him, did you?"
26182You do n''t want to sink through to China, do you?"
26182You vos jealous of me, hey?"
26182finished Tom, and added with a groan:"Hans, did you really make that all up by yourself?"
26182it''s getting pretty warm down here, is n''t it?"
26182so the others went to sleep, too?
26182who vos dot?"
27096A blind job, hey? 27096 All set for this new plan then?"
27096And I''m supposed to beat it out of here, hey?
27096And do you know what he was doing there?
27096And the Chink-- what happened to him?
27096And the car-- did you see it again?
27096And what''s that?
27096And you''re kind of hopin''we do, hey Kid? 27096 Any more instructions?"
27096Any of you see a Chink wanderin''around here?
27096Any questions, boys? 27096 Anybody seriously burned?"
27096Anything I ought to know?
27096Anything particular you wanted?
27096Are n''t they out of that furnace yet?
27096Are you all right?
27096Are you just going to ride over to the ranch openly?
27096Are you with me?
27096Aw say, do you know what I think, fellows? 27096 Beat me, hey?
27096Better go back, do you think?
27096Billee, will you do that?
27096Boss leave it here?
27096Bring any grub back with you?
27096Bring them yellow clings?
27096Bud, recognize him?
27096Bud-- is he in there? 27096 Bud?
27096But why did n''t Hawkins arrest him, then?
27096But-- but why did n''t you tell us?
27096Ca n''t the Chinese counterfeit this''chock gee''?
27096Ca n''t they get out? 27096 Can we have until to- morrow to think it over?"
27096Can you find it again?
27096Can you men all hear what I''m saying? 27096 Can you see anything-- any of Delton''s bunch?"
27096Can you sneak around the corner and signal to Bud?
27096Chase an auto on a horse?
27096Cook, hey? 27096 Delton, hey?
27096Dick, I thought you were going to see about eats? 27096 Dick, how about you riding back with me?"
27096Did I understand you to relate that you was goin''to eat some more pie?
27096Did n''t you say you heard someone talk about''even if Jake does n''t know about the Shooting Star''?
27096Did you get lost?
27096Did you? 27096 Did, hey?
27096Do n''t it strike you all kind''a funny that the Mex has got so much stuff on hand?
27096Do n''t you hear something?
27096Do n''t you know it''s rainin''here? 27096 Do n''t you think they figured we followed them, and are all set for us?"
27096Do you tuck her in bed at night, too?
27096Eh? 27096 First, did you work for this guy Delton?"
27096Get here in time?
27096Got any non- exploding sand in this machine, Nort?
27096Got away, did n''t he?
27096Great weather we''re havin'', ai n''t it? 27096 Has n''t, hey?
27096Has that smuggling been going on here-- near the Shooting Star?
27096Have a good trip? 27096 Have you tried eating raw onions?"
27096He did, hey? 27096 He has no right to stay there, has he?"
27096He''s gone, ai n''t he?
27096He''s your brother, is n''t he?
27096Hear it?
27096Heard the news?
27096Help-- men in there----"What is it? 27096 Here-- this do you?"
27096Hey, what the mischief you doin''here? 27096 His brother?
27096How about me? 27096 How about some more pie, Kid?"
27096How about their ponies? 27096 How are you feeling?"
27096How are you, Billee?
27096How did he look, Kid? 27096 How did you happen to come here, Dad?"
27096How do you feel, mister?
27096How do you get that way? 27096 How do you know?"
27096How far do you want to go?
27096How goes it?
27096How in thunderation did you all ever get in there?
27096How''s everything? 27096 How''s it feel to be a hero?"
27096How''s that? 27096 Hurt, Nort?"
27096I ask you once more, do you surrender?
27096I do n''t suppose you could tell us any more about this government business now?
27096I take it you boys are sensible?
27096I wonder if anyone was hurt when this car crashed?
27096If you started from the water hole do you think you could spot it at night?
27096In about two weeks? 27096 In there?"
27096Is n''t Nort out there?
27096Is n''t that where we left Bud, just ahead?
27096Is n''t that wonderful, Kid? 27096 Is that your last word?"
27096Kid?
27096Let''s see now-- have I heard that word before, or did I dream it? 27096 Like a passport, eh?"
27096Little feller, ai n''t he?
27096Lonesome, hey?
27096Lookin''for a''chock gee''was he? 27096 Lookin''for me?"
27096Lost your tongue, Mex?
27096Make it?
27096Me? 27096 Me?
27096Mind if I see it?
27096No but-- what''s that?
27096No more grub? 27096 No trace of anyone around; hey Bud?
27096No-- couldn''t you find him?
27096Nort, come over here a minute, will you? 27096 Not so good, hey?"
27096Now boys-- are you ready? 27096 Old?
27096Pie? 27096 Ready for work?"
27096Recognize him, Dick?
27096Say, Dick, remember the conversation we heard in Dad''s new bunk house? 27096 Say, Kid,"Bud called back, after a while,"what would you do if you saw a smuggler come along now with a herd of Chinks with him?"
27096Say, Mr. Hawkins, what''s the penalty for smuggling in this state?
27096Say, are you thinking the same thing I am?
27096Say, mister, what was that there you said about two thousand dollars?
27096Say, what''s all this about a''chock gee''?
27096Scared, eh? 27096 See what happened?"
27096Seems you want to hear something about my trip, hey? 27096 Shall we tell the others?"
27096Sleep good, boys?
27096Smuggler--''way up here? 27096 So that''s Delton, hey?"
27096So that''s Delton, is it?
27096So that''s what they were doing at the water hole? 27096 So you never really saw Delton?"
27096Some friend of yours? 27096 Take a ride around the place and see if you can locate someone; will you?
27096That will hurry up the deputy''s idea, wo n''t it? 27096 That would afford protection, but once I get in here how can I get out?
27096The Kid show up yet?
27096Then I take it you''ll go?
27096Then we''ll see you to- night?
27096Then when he beat it, you stayed here, hey?
27096Then why do n''t they come out?
27096They were the old- fashioned punchers, were n''t they?
27096Think so? 27096 Think so?
27096Think we all better go over and see him?
27096Think we want you bleedin''all over the landscape? 27096 This is the Shooting Star, is n''t it?"
27096Thought I tied her----"So- o- o you''re the coot that had her, hey? 27096 Thought you were going to bring someone with you?"
27096Thought you were out here to herd sheep?
27096Want another race?
27096Want to speak to me?
27096Was I smilin''? 27096 We''re pretty lucky, eh, Billee?"
27096We''ve been in a few tight squeezes before-- I suppose you heard of Del Pinzo?
27096Well, boys, what do you think about it?
27096Well, how about bunking with us to- night? 27096 Well, sonny, how does it feel to be talked to and not be able to talk back?
27096Well, what do you think of that?
27096Well, what do you think? 27096 Well, when do we start?"
27096Were you with Delton?
27096What about Billee?
27096What about him, Mex? 27096 What about the Mex?"
27096What about the broncs? 27096 What about these others?"
27096What are you doing here?
27096What are you talking about? 27096 What do you mean, get hold of it all right?"
27096What do you mean-- stupid?
27096What do you mean?
27096What do you mean?
27096What do you think about it, Kid? 27096 What do you think of it?"
27096What do you think of our little hide- an''-seek hole, Merkel? 27096 What do you want?"
27096What for?
27096What for?
27096What happened? 27096 What happened?"
27096What happened?
27096What is it-- keeping guard?
27096What is it?
27096What is it?
27096What makes you think someone started it?
27096What makes you think that?
27096What on earth are you doing here, Billee?
27096What time do you calculate we''ll hit the ranch, Kid?
27096What were those cracks we heard?
27096What''ll you have, gents?
27096What''s that?
27096What''s that?
27096What''s the matter with all of us going up there now?
27096What''s the matter, Billee? 27096 What''s the matter, Kid?"
27096What''s the matter? 27096 What''s the matter?"
27096What''s the sense of that?
27096What''s the trouble?
27096What''s the use of scarin''him? 27096 What''s this all about, boys?"
27096What''s your job? 27096 What, then?
27096What-- they did n''t even feed you? 27096 What?"
27096When you were here before, Bud, did they look as though they were getting ready to light out?
27096Where in the name of the spread eagle have you been?
27096Where in thunder is that lamp? 27096 Where you get all this?"
27096Where''s Delton, Mex?
27096Where''s my new bronc?
27096Where''s that Mex?
27096Where''s that Mexican?
27096Who gets the fifteen hundred dollars?
27096Who is he?
27096Who is it?
27096Who said we were goin''to get caught?
27096Who you talking to?
27096Who''s coming? 27096 Who''s this you got, Kid?"
27096Why do n''t you ask him yourself?
27096Why not? 27096 Why that smile, Kid?"
27096Why?
27096Why?
27096Will we really get a reward if we capture these smugglers?
27096Wo n''t someone see you?
27096Wonder how Bud is making out?
27096Wonder if it could have been the Kid?
27096Wonder if there''s anyone around?
27096Wonder what happened to the Chinks?
27096Wonder what he wants?
27096Wonder what time it is?
27096Wonder where on earth I am? 27096 Wonder where the Mex got all this food?"
27096Yea? 27096 Yea?
27096Yes, but do n''t you see they ca n''t get word to the others in time?
27096Yes, but you were n''t supposed to, were you?
27096Yes-- do you know him?
27096You did-- why?
27096You do n''t think I''d tell on you, do ya-- an''get twenty years myself? 27096 You have got the money ready-- yes?"
27096You heard someone talkin''about this here shootin'', Bud?
27096You just get in?
27096You know Jose Salvo?
27096You know what I think would be a good idee?
27096You know when the run is planned for?
27096You mean Pete Alvido? 27096 You mean comin''back here an''not findin''anybody?
27096You mean not letting him know we suspect him?
27096You mean pretty rough, hey?
27096You mean that shirt with the yellow dots on, Kid?
27096You mean they''ll think Delton is still here?
27096You mean to say you''re goin''to walk right up there in broad daylight, after what they did to Billee?
27096You mean trailin''your horse, Kid?
27096You mean you want some of us to watch the place and do a little shootin''so that they wo n''t come out?
27096You mean, where are the Chinks? 27096 You remember that water hole the Kid found the Chinaman at?"
27096You used to work a lot in the summer, did n''t you, Billee?
27096You want Nort an''me to watch the road in the other direction?
27096You what?
27096You with Delton? 27096 You''ll ride with us to the place now, you mean?"
27096You''ll what?
27096All right now?"
27096All set, ponies?
27096All set, you men?"
27096All set?
27096An''you tied her up tight, hey?
27096An''you was comin''to tell us?"
27096And how about that remark of''double crossin''?''
27096And what can I do for you?"
27096And what did they run for?
27096And what good are immigration laws if we ca n''t enforce them?
27096And what''s he doin''at this ranch?"
27096Any more cyclones?"
27096Anybody hurt bad?"
27096Anybody want anything?"
27096Are they in danger?''
27096Are you all right, Kid?"
27096Are you answered?"
27096Are you boys willing to take a chance?"
27096As for smuggling, who said we were smugglers?"
27096Bars, hey?"
27096Better now?"
27096Billee Dobb-- is-- is he dead?"
27096Billee, do you think it''s nice to run me around like that?"
27096Billee, how about it?
27096Billee, you want to come along?
27096Bring in some, will you?
27096Bud, have you a suggestion?
27096Bud, have you and Dick decided what you''re to do?"
27096Bud, you remember that Mexican we saw in the restaurant the first day you hit town?
27096Bud-- how did you get burned?
27096But apart from that, what do you make of this situation, Kid?"
27096But how can I break it without making a racket and bringing Delton and his gang rushing in?"
27096But where is Delton, Mex?
27096By the way-- wonder what happened to our cook?
27096CHAPTER IV THE HIDDEN GUNMAN"Who wants to know?"
27096Ca n''t you hear a noise like a horse walking?"
27096Ca n''t you, baby?
27096Can you get ready to shift by to- morrow morning, do you think?
27096Can you?"
27096Come here, baby-- where you been?
27096Cook?"
27096Could it be that he determined to stick it out until the last moment, and risk a horrible death?
27096Could n''t you see who the two men were?"
27096D.''--the one tendin''the ranch now?"
27096Dick voiced the thought of all as he whispered:"Say, what''s up?
27096Dick, hang on to this pony, will you?
27096Did Delton get hold of him?"
27096Did I understand you to say we''d have a load going back, Bud?"
27096Did n''t Bud say he was one of Delton''s men?"
27096Did n''t see my missin''bronc around, I suppose?"
27096Did this look like a sheep ranch to you?"
27096Did you tell him we was expectin''to find a sheep ranch?"
27096Did your dad hear from him, do you know?"
27096Do n''t want cold sody, do ya?
27096Do n''t you think it''s mighty queer behavior for a tenant of a sheep ranch?
27096Do we go out?
27096Do you surrender?"
27096Do you think Delton might be around back, or somewhere outside?"
27096Eats?"
27096Fear?
27096Feel as though you can control yourself now?
27096Feel better now?
27096Find that bread and meat, Nort?"
27096First of all, could you use one thousand dollars?"
27096First, though, are you sure that you can find that ranch where they held you, Bud?"
27096First, though, is there any chuck left?"
27096Food always do that to you?
27096Gettin''old?"
27096Gone?"
27096Got a blanket?"
27096Got a job and you do n''t know what it is?
27096Got any food inside?
27096Got someone with him; has n''t he?"
27096Got water over there for Billee, Kid?"
27096Has there been much action around your ranch?"
27096Have n''t you got one out here?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096Hawkins?"
27096He knows the country about here pretty well, does n''t he, Billee?"
27096He told you he would n''t leave?"
27096He''s in town, is n''t he?"
27096Hear me?
27096Herder?
27096Hey, Mex, what''s your name?
27096Hey, you-- cook for_ hombres_?"
27096Hey, you-- where did you keep her?"
27096Hey?
27096Hey?
27096Hey?"
27096Hey?"
27096His brother, eh?
27096His horse, was it?
27096How about it, Billee?"
27096How about it, Dick and Nort?
27096How about lettin''us in the ranch to get dry?"
27096How are all the babies-- and Aunt Sarah?
27096How are you, son?
27096How did you get over here?"
27096How do you like the feel of that?
27096How does she look, Nort?"
27096How far can she go on a gallon?"
27096How many do you think can ride, Kid?
27096How''s the boy, Nort?
27096Huh?
27096Huh?
27096Hurt yourself?"
27096I do n''t suppose you boys saw anything of him?"
27096I do n''t think your father bought the sheep with this ranch, did he, Bud?"
27096I suppose you boys are lookin''for a job; eh?"
27096I wonder if my belt buckle would do?"
27096I''m going to----""But what can you do?"
27096I''m sure he''ll pull through O. K. Kid, is Bud coming with us?"
27096If I get a crack at Delton----""How''d it happen, Bud?"
27096If you were n''t listenin''what were you doin''?"
27096In another moment----"Hey, you guys, what''s the idea?"
27096In the meantime, where''s that meat and bread you brought, Nort?
27096Is he dead?"
27096Is n''t there something about the room I could use?
27096Is the kitchen all cleaned out?"
27096Is there a water hole near here, Kid, or shall I use my canteen?"
27096It''s all set for to- morrow night, then?"
27096Just because I found that pit by the water hole?
27096K.?"
27096Kid, Nort-- know who that is?"
27096Kid, where''s Billee Dobb resting?"
27096Know what that means on the range?
27096Know where they keep them?"
27096Know where we are?"
27096Listening were n''t you?"
27096Merkel?"
27096Mex, listen here: Did you set that fire?"
27096More pie?
27096No spik?
27096No_ habla_?"
27096Not a thing in-- what was that?
27096Now do you see what I mean?"
27096Now how about tellin''us who you are?"
27096Now is there anything you boys want before we leave?"
27096Now that you''re here, what are you going to do?"
27096Now what, boys?"
27096Now where would a poor Chink get fifteen hundred dollars?
27096Now who''d think of a stunt like that?"
27096Now why did they go to all this trouble?
27096Now, boys, are you all set?"
27096Now, boys,"and he turned to the five standing near him,"what can I do for you?
27096Oh, by the way-- keep an eye on that Mex cook of yours, will you?
27096Oh, say, Dad, do you know Mr. Hawkins?
27096Or is it just a friendly visit?
27096Quick-- do you understand?"
27096Ready?"
27096Reckon you could stand a little sleep, eh?"
27096Remember how he stared at that cyclone coming until he forgot where he was?"
27096Remember, Mr. Hawkins?
27096Rustlers, or disease?"
27096S''pose you- all would like to know what it''s all about, hey?"
27096Savvy?"
27096Say, Billee, you a de- tect- a- tive by any chance?"
27096Say, I thought you fellers were headed for the Shootin''Star?"
27096Say, I wonder who started this thing?"
27096Say, Mr.--what did you say your name was?"
27096Say, by the way, I wonder where that Mex cook of ours went?"
27096Say, is that a new pony you''re ridin'', Kid?"
27096Say, see any Chinks in the car?"
27096Say, where did you say the others were?"
27096Say-- got anything to eat?"
27096Say-- what happened here?
27096See that spot above his eye?
27096Seems to me I remember takin''a subway train at Times Square-- or was that last year?
27096Shannon, is n''t it?
27096So she could n''t get loose?
27096So that''s what Dad meant when he said there might be trouble, eh?
27096So they got him spotted, have they?
27096So you''re the new owners, hey?
27096So you''re the one that lifted the cyclone, hey?
27096So your friend in the house told you he''d give one thousand bucks if you''d let him stay, did he?"
27096Some shootin''been goin''on?"
27096Something like that Mexican cook of yours, hey?"
27096Still asleep?"
27096Suppose the Kid did meet a smuggler-- how''d he know him from any other man?"
27096Suppose we tie them as close to the house as we can without being seen?"
27096Take a run to the kitchen, Dick, and look, will you?"
27096Takes old birds like us to show these youngsters up, eh, Billee?"
27096That right, Mex?"
27096That sort of puts it up to us, do n''t it?"
27096That sure means smuggling, does n''t it?"
27096The Kid had been gone ten minutes when Bud said:"Thought Yellin''Kid said he''d be right back?
27096The Kid will be glad to see him, eh, Kid?"
27096The father''s glance evidently convinced him that Bud was all right, for he turned quickly and said to the others:"Where''s Billee Dobb?
27096The one I told you to watch out for?
27096The one you pointed out; is n''t he?"
27096The store got a buckboard, deputy?"
27096The stranger reined up sharply as he came within talking distance and looked piercingly at the ranchers as he called out:"Anything I can do for you?"
27096Then he says,''you still want go America?''
27096Then in a moment----"Who are you-- John Law?"
27096Then without even a halt for breath he went on:"What do you think of this here team?
27096There, about a mile away, lurching from side to side?
27096Think of anything, Bud?"
27096Think that Mexican cook is on the job?"
27096Think we better leave them?"
27096Think we ought to kick him out?"
27096Think you can take it easy a short spell?"
27096Think you''d recognize the voices if you heard them again?"
27096Thirsty?"
27096Throw your head back at me, will you?
27096Try it-- see that bush up ahead?
27096Understand?"
27096Vaquero?
27096Want me to go over and see how he''s makin''out?"
27096Want to see him?"
27096Want to wait he comes, before going closer?"
27096Was it fair to ask----?
27096Well, boys, it''s time you knew what this smuggling is all about, hey?"
27096Well, now-- what kind is there left?"
27096Well, what''s the dope?
27096Well-- when do we start?"
27096Well----""Got a few suspicions up your own sleeve, eh?"
27096What I''m aimin''to find out is, what''s yours?"
27096What am I supposed to do; stay here?"
27096What are you doin''around here?"
27096What are you goin''to do, Bud, put them woolies to sleep with music?"
27096What chance have they got now?"
27096What did you find out about the sheep- man, Dick?"
27096What did you see, Kid?"
27096What do I do?
27096What do you say, Bud?
27096What do you say, boys?
27096What do you say, boys?
27096What do you say, boys?"
27096What do you say, boys?"
27096What do you think about it all?"
27096What do you think of her?"
27096What do you think of the place, Bud?"
27096What do you think of this idea?"
27096What do you think this is, a circus?
27096What had happened to Delton?
27096What happens to be your special line?"
27096What have you men been feeding Bud-- leather?
27096What is the paper?
27096What of it?
27096What say we get off and walk?
27096What time is it, do you know?"
27096What was his idea in pulling me off like that?
27096What was in their minds as they made ready for that desperate charge?
27096What was the idea of the whole thing, anyhow?
27096What''ll you have-- a song?
27096What''s fifteen hundred in the land of''plenty dollah?''
27096What''s he want to come sneaking around for?
27096What''s that?
27096What''s the idea of that?"
27096What''s the matter, are you tied to the floor?"
27096What''s their name again?
27096What''s your name?"
27096What?
27096When the edge had been taken off his hunger he asked the Kid:"Where''s the rest of the bunch?"
27096When they had satisfied their hunger Bud leaned back in his chair and said:"Well, what''s on the program this morning, Kid?
27096Where can those birds be keeping themselves?
27096Where were the horses?
27096Where were you, Bud?"
27096Where you men bound for-- if you do n''t mind me askin''?"
27096Where you- all countin''on headin''for?"
27096Where''s Billee Dobb?
27096Where''s Bud?"
27096Where''s the boss?
27096Where''s the kitchen?"
27096Where?"
27096Where?"
27096Who''ll do it?"
27096Who, me?
27096Whose mount is missing?"
27096Why did they sneak in a deserted bunk house to talk about a cook?
27096Why does n''t he come out?
27096Why should we surrender?"
27096Why they no come out?"
27096Why you no go with Delton?"
27096Why you run, hey?
27096Why, did something happen to you, too?"
27096Why, even Billee here wants to trail the smugglers-- don''t you, Billee?"
27096Why?
27096Why?"
27096Will that do you?
27096Will you?"
27096Wise sort of a bird; is n''t he?
27096Wonder how in thunder this fire ever got going?"
27096Wonder if we can see anything by lookin''in the window?"
27096Wonder what the idea was?
27096Woolworth tower fall on me?
27096Would he cross safely, or would he be shot down like a dog?
27096You anxious to begin sheep herdin''?"
27096You did n''t know Billee Dobb was a champion racer, did you?"
27096You figgerin''on pluggin''someone, youngster?"
27096You got fifteen hundred dollah?''
27096You got papers, I suppose?"
27096You hurt?"
27096You know him?"
27096You know what happened to that last bird who arranged for me to meet up with the cops?"
27096You know, Bud?"
27096You remember what your Dad said about smugglin'', Bud?"
27096You rent the place, do n''t you?
27096You say you want to ride around a bit, Kid?"
27096You speak to me?"
27096You spent enough time sneakin''up on a whole lot of nothin'', did n''t ye?"
27096You want go America?
27096You want to choke?"
27096You will, will you?
27096You''d forgot all about it, had n''t ye?
27096You- all know what to do?"
27096he whispered, so as not to disturb the others,"do you hear anything?"
52194Admitting all that, though I do n''t, what harm can he do, Mary, while I am here to protect you?
52194Aha, my young friends,he said, with a pleased glance at their soiled clothes,"so you have returned?"
52194Ai n''t that a high figger?
52194Altogether?
52194And I wo n''t have to give it to Massa Bob?
52194And are you willing to undertake this, Robert? 52194 And did n''t find it?"
52194And how much am I to have?
52194And said nothing about the interest?
52194And what luck did you have, may I ask?
52194And what were you going to do with the razor?
52194And you agreed to take him?
52194And you are afraid of him?
52194And you did n''t drink this dipper full, then?
52194And you did n''t find the money?
52194And you expect to get two dollars and a quarter a bushel?
52194And you gave them to him?
52194And you pay him a large interest?
52194And you thought that, after loving such a man as Richard Burton, I would be satisfied to take such a man as you?
52194And you will wait for the other four?
52194And you wo n''t let that ugly woman take me away?
52194And you wo n''t take back the money?
52194And you, Bob?
52194And you, I suppose, are a relative of his?
52194Are the boys all right?
52194Are them your two companions?
52194Are they boys like yourself?
52194Are you Clip?
52194Are you a regular boarder?
52194Are you coming back with me?
52194Are you goin''back to bed, Massa Bob?
52194Are you goin''to stay in dat place all night?
52194Are you going to row or are you not?
52194Are you hurt, Massa Wolverton?
52194Are you in charge of this boat?
52194Are you sure there is no whisky on board?
52194Are you sure?
52194Are you the captain?
52194Are you three all that are on board-- I mean all that man the boat?
52194Are you traveling through the country?
52194Be you in charge of this boat?
52194Bound down the river?
52194Business, I suppose?
52194But do n''t it trouble you, Clip?
52194But he says, with some show of reason, if the interest was paid, why did n''t your father take a receipt?
52194But how can I get it by to- morrow night?
52194But how did it come into your pocket, Clip?
52194But in what way has he ill- treated you?
52194But suppose, Sam, I am charged with abducting you?
52194But what can I do, sir? 52194 But why should he make you work hard?"
52194But, Robert, to get into a fight with a man so much older?
52194But, ma''am, why do n''t you take passage on a river steamer?
52194By the way, Sally, have you seen a stray paper about the floor in my room?
52194By the way, have you heard anything of your nephew, Sam?
52194Ca n''t we get off down de river afore he comes, Massa Bob?
52194Ca n''t you hide me somewhere without their knowing I am on board?
52194Ca n''t you put it off till eight? 52194 Can I go, too?"
52194Can no receipt be found?
52194Can she pay?
52194Can this be true?
52194Can we carry on the ranch now that your father is gone?
52194Can you bring me a glass of water?
52194Can you row good, Clip?
52194Can you tell me the number?
52194Clip,said Bob, gravely,"has Sam Wolverton engaged passage with us?"
52194Could n''t you have sent them?
52194Dey wo n''t''sassinate us?
52194Did I not tell you so?
52194Did he do it a- purpose?
52194Did he mention having seen any suspicious party, or any man who seemed to be running away?
52194Did he mention his name?
52194Did he pay you anything in advance?
52194Did he say that?
52194Did he show you the money?
52194Did my papa send you for me?
52194Did n''t I tell you it was a cat?
52194Did n''t I tell you so?
52194Did n''t I, Massa Bob?
52194Did n''t de old man look mad, dough? 52194 Did n''t he leave any property?"
52194Did the little girl say anything in your hearing?
52194Did you ever know that Aaron Wolverton was once a suitor for my hand?
52194Did you ever mention this to your uncle, Sam?
52194Did you find this money, too?
52194Did you have the money to buy it?
52194Did you just come?
52194Did you leave no one on board?
52194Did you receive a birthday present?
52194Did you shoot them this morning, Robert?
52194Did you wish to speak to us?
52194Disappeared?
52194Do n''t you know my name?
52194Do n''t you see you are running the boat ashore?
52194Do n''t you wish you knew, old woman?
52194Do those boys sleep sound?
52194Do you carry freight, then?
52194Do you doubt my word?
52194Do you doubt my word?
52194Do you expect me to pay it to you, then?
52194Do you know my uncle?
52194Do you know of any private house where we can stay till that time? 52194 Do you know of anybody around here that wants a boat?"
52194Do you know what''s in this?
52194Do you know who I am?
52194Do you live here, sir?
52194Do you live in Rocky Creek?
52194Do you mean this, Sam?
52194Do you mean to insult me? 52194 Do you mean to say that it was not paid to you?"
52194Do you mean to say you sneezed, Clip?
52194Do you mean to tell me you found all these coins on the sidewalk?
52194Do you really think there is a chance of our succeeding?
52194Do you see that, Clip?
52194Do you still tell me that you found all this money?
52194Do you think I am made of money?
52194Do you think Mrs. Burton pretty?
52194Do you think he left any property?
52194Do you think that is kind?
52194Do you think they would take me as passenger?
52194Do you think we can get him on de boat, massa?
52194Do you want me to thrash you, too?
52194Does Mr. Wolverton ever take any notice of you, Robert?
52194Does n''t that settle it? 52194 Does that mean that you have left him?"
52194Does you, Massa Bob?
52194Ef you do, what''ll''come of you, Massa Wolverton?
52194For my own self?
52194From you?
52194Got a thousand bushels, I reckon?
52194Had n''t you better send your son out of the room? 52194 Has any steamer touched here to- day?"
52194Has anybody been here, Clip?
52194Has he been quiet?
52194Has that man any claim on you?
52194Has your uncle got a gun?
52194Have n''t I the care of the child? 52194 Have n''t you seen her?
52194Have you any idea as to the amount of your wheat crop?
52194Have you any wheat to sell? 52194 Have you been here all the time?"
52194Have you come from a distance?
52194Have you ever seen him before?
52194Have you got anything to eat on board which you can bring me by and by?
52194Have you heard any bad news of Robert?
52194Have you just found that out?
52194Have you missed any money, Aaron?
52194Have you searched your desk?
52194He said that, when he had the money in his pocket?
52194He was, hey?
52194He wo n''t die?
52194Hev you got the money about you?
52194Hi, Massa Wolverton; what''s the matter?
52194How came he to do dat?
52194How can it fail to be bad news for me?
52194How can there be? 52194 How could he walk round with a broken leg?"
52194How dare you insult me by such a charge?
52194How did I know his leg was broken?
52194How did this happen, Clip?
52194How did you come?
52194How do you expect to get your grain to market?
52194How do you know?
52194How do you make that out?
52194How do you make that out?
52194How do you, a boy, dare to talk in this impudent way to a man who has you in his power?
52194How far are we from home, Massa Bob?
52194How far do you intend going?
52194How is that?
52194How is that?
52194How is your aunt? 52194 How long do you mean to keep me here?"
52194How long have you lived with your uncle?
52194How long have you owned the boat?
52194How long will you stay, Massa Bob?
52194How many bushels now, about?
52194How many days do you think we shall need for the trip, Bob?
52194How many have you got?
52194How many have you on board?
52194How much do the steamboats charge?
52194How much do you calc''late to get?
52194How much money have you got?
52194How much more is Brown to pay you?
52194How much?
52194How old are you, Sam?
52194How old are you?
52194How on earth did this accident happen?
52194How shall we arrange to get anything? 52194 How shall we help it, Clip?"
52194How should I know? 52194 How soon will we start, Massa Bob?"
52194How then do you account for its being written?
52194How will that benefit us?
52194How will you help it?
52194How''s he coming?
52194How?
52194I cared for him and kept him from starving, and how has he rewarded me?
52194I hope you''re not going to say that you are not ready to pay your rent?
52194I say, young man, is this here boat yours?
52194I suppose Joe''s all right?
52194I suppose you do n''t want to lift the mortgage?
52194I suppose you would n''t be willing to get into a grain bin?
52194I suspect him of running away, the ungrateful young rascal? 52194 I wonder what could have been his object in representing himself to me as a grain merchant?"
52194I wonder what he sees that interests him so much?
52194I wonder whether our boat is gone?
52194If you had any other purpose, what is it?
52194If you had the receipt why did n''t you show it to me before?
52194In what did the property consist?
52194In what direction?
52194In what way?
52194Is he dead?
52194Is he so mean as that?
52194Is his uncle so severe, then?
52194Is it about the interest?
52194Is my nephew Sam on your boat?
52194Is n''t that rather a small crew?
52194Is n''t you ever goin''to bed, Massa Bob?
52194Is the boat yours?
52194Is the boy crazy?
52194Is the mortgage for a term of years?
52194Is there a man named Wolverton who lives in your town?
52194Is this gold piece yours?
52194Is this really for me?
52194Is you wet, Massa Wolverton?
52194Is your mother at home?
52194Is your mother at home?
52194Is_ he_ the captain?
52194It''s good fun, ai n''t it, Massa Wolverton?
52194May I ask your name?
52194May I play with them to- morrow?
52194My darling Maud?
52194My young cousin accompanies you to help, I suppose?
52194No; do you?
52194No; has he any business with you?
52194No; have you seen him?
52194No; what makes you ask?
52194No; why should he come? 52194 Not the receipt for the money?"
52194Now what has happened, Sam?
52194Now, Margaret, can you give us something to eat?
52194Now, may I ask your advice as to how to proceed to regain possession of the boat?
52194Now, own up, Clip, were you not looking at something on the bank, so that you did n''t notice where you were steering?
52194Now, what you want, massa?
52194Now, where is Sam?
52194Now,said Bob to the little girl, as they descended the steep and narrow staircase,"will you do as I tell you?"
52194Of whom?
52194Oh, it''s you, Bob, is it?
52194Oh, so you''re back?
52194On what street does your father live?
52194Or the little girl?
52194Sally, has the Burton boy been here this morning?
52194Sally, where is Sam?
52194Sam, what was he going to whip you for?
52194Sam,said Wolverton, sharply,"what kept you so long?
52194Shall I get you the six dollars, sir?
52194Shall I have any difficulty in managing the boat on our course down the river?
52194Shall I mention the reason?
52194Shall I show you the paper in which I saw the quotations?
52194Shall you stay at the hotel this evening?
52194So do I, but why is it any the worse for him to hold it than for any one else?
52194So you raised the money after all?
52194So you want to get quit of your aunt and me, do you?
52194Suppose he did; is he your guardian or am I?
52194Suppose the boy does n''t touch here?
52194Surely it can not cost fifty cents a bushel?
52194Tell me the truth, Clip; have you been drinking?
52194That boy?
52194That is the earliest?
52194That''s what you like best to do, Clip, is n''t it?
52194Then I may go, mother?
52194Then he does n''t live in the village?
52194Then how am I to get aboard?
52194Then make me the promise?
52194Then you ca n''t accommodate me?
52194Then you ca n''t take me, no way?
52194There ai n''t anybody but you aboard, is there?
52194Wanted to go down the river? 52194 Was Clip with you?"
52194Was he here yesterday?
52194Was it my fault that he hid himself on my boat?
52194Was n''t your cargo stolen?
52194Was there anything said about our going back?
52194Was you calc''latin''to buy, Sam?
52194Well, did you find Sam?
52194What ails you, you vicious brute?
52194What are you about, Clip?
52194What are you about?
52194What are you driving at, Dan Woods?
52194What became of the money?
52194What business had he here?
52194What business has he there, I wonder?
52194What can happen, Massa Bob? 52194 What can he be doing here?"
52194What conditions?
52194What cursed luck sent the boy to the creek to- night?
52194What did he say?
52194What did she mean?
52194What did you do with it?
52194What did you do, Sam?
52194What did you go into Locke''s store for?
52194What difference does that make?
52194What do you ask?
52194What do you call a fair price?
52194What do you hear from your son?
52194What do you mean by that?
52194What do you mean, widder?
52194What do you mean? 52194 What do you mean?"
52194What do you mean?
52194What do you propose to do if we do n''t pay?
52194What do you propose, then?
52194What do you say to that?
52194What do you think?
52194What do you want money for?
52194What does all this mean?
52194What does he mean? 52194 What does that man want?"
52194What does your aunt say?
52194What fo'', Massa Bob?
52194What fo''?
52194What for I do dat?
52194What gentleman?
52194What has happened to you? 52194 What have I to live for now?"
52194What have you been doing while we were away?
52194What have you done to Mr. Wolverton, mother?
52194What have you got on board?
52194What have you to say, Sam?
52194What house shall you deal with?
52194What if I did?
52194What interest?
52194What is a receipt, missis?
52194What is it, Bob?
52194What is it, Sam?
52194What is it?
52194What is it?
52194What is my object?
52194What is that black ape grinning about?
52194What is that?
52194What is your hurry, Clip? 52194 What is your name?"
52194What is your object in putting all these questions?
52194What is your objection?
52194What is your other name?
52194What kind of a receipt-- from whom?
52194What little girl?
52194What made Massa Bob go so far?
52194What made him attack you?
52194What made you do such a thing? 52194 What made you do this, Clip?"
52194What made you get up?
52194What made you show it to him?
52194What makes you call me massa? 52194 What makes you say that?"
52194What makes you think so?
52194What more?
52194What on airth does a boy like you want of a ferry- boat?
52194What on earth is the matter, Sam?
52194What other business can you have with me?
52194What right have you to put questions to me, you young whelp?
52194What shall I do, Bob?
52194What should I mean?
52194What sort of a paper was it?
52194What sort of a trick?
52194What then became of the money-- the hundred and fifty dollars which he carried with him?
52194What was it like?
52194What was that?
52194What was you goin''to take down de ribber, Massa Bob?
52194What worries you?
52194What would you do with it, Massa Bob?
52194What you mean, massa?
52194What''ll I do about de boat?
52194What''ll you give?
52194What''s all this?
52194What''s come of Massa Burton? 52194 What''s dat mean?"
52194What''s dat, Massa Bob?
52194What''s dat?
52194What''s dat?
52194What''s dat?
52194What''s got into Clip?
52194What''s he searchin''Massa Burton''s pockets for?
52194What''s my name, Clip?
52194What''s that?
52194What''s that?
52194What''s the matter with those confounded boys?
52194What''s the matter, Sam?
52194What''s the matter, little girl?
52194What''s the matter?
52194What''s the matter?
52194What''s the price?
52194What''s up, old woman?
52194What''s your mother''s name?
52194What, Massa Bob?
52194What, then?
52194When and where?
52194When did you come on board?
52194When did you get it?
52194When did you lose the boat?
52194When did you wake up?
52194When do they start?
52194When do you expect it to arrive?
52194When do you start?
52194When is your birthday?
52194When will you know?
52194Where are they?
52194Where are they?
52194Where are you bound?
52194Where are you, Bob?
52194Where are you, Clip?
52194Where can Clip possibly have got it?
52194Where can I put you?
52194Where can you put me?
52194Where did he get them?
52194Where did it come from?
52194Where did it come from?
52194Where did you find it?
52194Where did you get that paper?
52194Where did you take it?
52194Where else should it be?
52194Where is he now?
52194Where is he now?
52194Where is he? 52194 Where is he?"
52194Where is it, Joe?
52194Where is your ranch?
52194Where on earth can it be?
52194Where was it?
52194Where was you raised, Massa Wolverton, not to understand rowin''no better dan dat?
52194Where will we stop to- night?
52194Where''d he get it? 52194 Where''s the money?"
52194Where''s the sick man?
52194Where''s the whisky?
52194Where''s your mother?
52194Where, and when, did you find it?
52194Where?
52194Where?
52194Whereabouts, Clip?
52194Who am I? 52194 Who are you, sir?"
52194Who are you?
52194Who asked you to bring him some whisky?
52194Who brought you to her?
52194Who can it be?
52194Who could have robbed him?
52194Who has been putting this into your head, widder? 52194 Who is de little girl, Massa Bob?"
52194Who is this?
52194Who saw him?
52194Who told you, Massa Bob?
52194Who was that black boy?
52194Who would believe your unsupported assertion? 52194 Who''s to pay us?"
52194Why are you so anxious to know whether any of the Burtons have been here?
52194Why did n''t he pay it, then? 52194 Why did n''t you send him back?"
52194Why did n''t you tell me that before?
52194Why did n''t you tell me this, Clip?
52194Why did you give that dollar to him?
52194Why did you select my boat in preference to a regular passenger steamer?
52194Why do n''t he come himself?
52194Why do n''t you run away, like I did?
52194Why do you ask?
52194Why do you wish to know?
52194Why should I do it?
52194Why so? 52194 Why, then, do you make the offer?"
52194Why, you young rascal, are you afraid to trust me?
52194Will Massa Bob, as you call him; be likely to look here?
52194Will no one help me?
52194Will they do you, mister?
52194Will you promise not to use it on Sam?
52194Will you take me back to my papa, certain sure?
52194Will you take me to my papa to- morrow?
52194Will you take me to my papa?
52194Will you take me with you, Massa Bob?
52194Wo n''t I never see my papa again?
52194Wo n''t it be too much trouble, sir?
52194Wo n''t there be risk?
52194Wo n''t, hey?
52194Wo n''t, hey?
52194Would he have the right?
52194Would it not be better to sell it?
52194Would you like to accept Mr. Granger''s invitation, Sam?
52194Would you like to be there now, Clip?
52194Would you run away, Clip, if you were in my place?
52194Yes, I do, Clip; and where do you think it comes from?
52194Yes, sir; will you walk in?
52194Yes; but how can we look after the other? 52194 You actually had a quarrel with Uncle Aaron?"
52194You are sailing with Robert Burton?
52194You do n''t think the little girl was any relation to the woman, Clip?
52194You do n''t, hey? 52194 You do, hey?"
52194You expect to harvest fourteen hundred bushels?
52194You have n''t got the whole of it? 52194 You have n''t seen anything of that black imp, Clip, have you?"
52194You have run away, then?
52194You here, Clip?
52194You mean dat, Massa Sam?
52194You mean in disposing of the cargo?
52194You recovered it?
52194You remember what I told you before you started?
52194You were not that way at his age?
52194You will be paying the mortgage next year?
52194You will take me, then?
52194You wo n''t let him succeed?
52194Young gentlemen,he said,"you are strangers here, I imagine?"
52194Young man, do you know I could have you arrested for abducting my nephew?
52194_ What?_"The little gal''s gone! 52194 Ai n''t that enough?
52194And if he does,"he continued, after a pause,"why should I lament?
52194And what has he done with your property?"
52194Are you all right?"
52194Are you in a hurry to get back to your uncle?"
52194Are you in charge of the boat?"
52194Are you sleepy?"
52194Are you the boy that came yesterday?"
52194At the saloon he was asked,"Do you want this for yourself?
52194Baker?"
52194Burton?"
52194Burton?"
52194Burton?"
52194But what could have become of the receipt?
52194But where could he take refuge?
52194But where on earth did you find it?"
52194But where''s the boy?"
52194But, if so, where could it be?
52194Ca n''t you invite me aboard?"
52194Can he be following us?"
52194Can he possibly suspect me?"
52194Could he have heard anything?"
52194Could my husband have been waylaid, murdered, and robbed?"
52194Could we go there to breakfast?"
52194Did he take it hard?"
52194Did n''t I see my nephew, Sam, come out of here just now?"
52194Did she treat you badly?"
52194Did you fall and hurt yourself?"
52194Did you search his wallet when he was brought home?"
52194Did you see him anywhere?"
52194Did you steal this money?"
52194Do n''t you see we are not more than fifty feet away now?"
52194Do you know you have got us into trouble?
52194Do you know, Minton, how large and valuable a cargo there is on that old ferry- boat?"
52194Do you live with your Uncle Aaron?"
52194Do you mean to say he did not call at your office?"
52194Do you mean to tell me that he did not pay it?"
52194Do you see?"
52194Do you still accuse Sam of robbing you?"
52194Do you want the strap again?"
52194Even if he had, what did it concern Wolverton?
52194Good idea, is n''t it?"
52194Got another cigar, Minton?"
52194Has your uncle got married?"
52194Have n''t I told you it was not paid?"
52194Have n''t you sided with that upstart, the Burton boy?"
52194Have you a stout rope on the place?"
52194Have you got any whisky aboard?"
52194Have you got such a thing as a clothes- brush on board this craft?"
52194He is n''t one of your visitors, is he?"
52194How am I going to get the boat back into the stream?"
52194How long you goin''to stay?"
52194How much do you charge?
52194How much have you got?"
52194How much have you got?"
52194How should I?"
52194How''s the widder left?"
52194I ca n''t save money like you, and that brings me round to the question: For whom are you piling up all this wealth?
52194I suppose a man can make an offer?"
52194I suppose you are not in need of the money?"
52194I suppose you have n''t forgotten that?"
52194I wonder if he destroyed the receipt?"
52194If Massa Bob knew you was here--""He is not to know, do you hear?"
52194If anything''s happened to him, what''ll''come of Clip?"
52194Is it anything very bad?"
52194Is it for Sam?"
52194Is it that boy of yours?"
52194Is she any better than your uncle?"
52194Is your mamma there too?"
52194It ai n''t no secret, is it?"
52194Louis?"
52194Louis?"
52194Louis?"
52194May I ask if you do not deal in wheat?"
52194Neither Bob nor his mother answered him, but Mrs. Burton asked anxiously, after his departure:"Do you think he will do anything, Bob?"
52194Now suppose the receipt were found, what would be the inference?
52194Now where shall we put him?"
52194Of course you know that you have property, and that your Uncle Aaron is your guardian?"
52194Oh, what will we do?"
52194Sam, how far away is Carver?"
52194See?"
52194Slocum?"
52194Slocum?"
52194So you had to walk back?"
52194Suppose he did,"said Bob, not yet understanding;"why should he give you money?"
52194Then why did you give him the dollar?"
52194Then, if you did n''t steal it, how did you get it?"
52194Then, noticing the frown upon her brother''s brow, she inquired,"Is anything the matter?"
52194Think, if anything should happen to you, what would become of me?"
52194This clearly was none of the questioner''s business, and Bob replied by another question:"Do you want to buy?"
52194WAS IT THE CAT?
52194WAS IT THE CAT?
52194Was n''t he jest ravin''?
52194Was n''t your husband a good enough business man to require a receipt for money paid?"
52194Was there anybody who was responsible for its disappearance?
52194What are you afraid of?"
52194What business have you to interfere between me and my nephew?"
52194What can I do for you?"
52194What did he give it to you for?"
52194What good''s a cent to me?"
52194What have I got to do with Sam?"
52194What have you done to compare with me?"
52194What have you to say to it?"
52194What is there to laugh at?"
52194What made you tell me that it was you who sneezed?"
52194What sum would have paid you for your disappointment?"
52194What would become of me if I should lose my mother also?"
52194What would he make by proving false to us?"
52194What''s your security?"
52194Where do you sleep yourself?"
52194Where is the other?"
52194Where is the woman that put you to bed?"
52194Where''d he get it, Aaron?"
52194Which of you legs is broke?"
52194Who told you?"
52194Why ca n''t you stay to supper to- night?"
52194Why ca n''t you tell me about it?"
52194Why did not Aaron Wolverton burn the receipt, and get rid once for all of the only proof that the interest had been paid?
52194Why do n''t he say five dollars at once?"
52194Why should he be on board?"
52194Why should he have such a spite against them?"
52194Why?"
52194Will you come in?"
52194Will you take me to him?"
52194Wo n''t Mrs. Burton feel bad?"
52194Wo n''t he stay to supper?"
52194Wo n''t they be s''prised, dough?"
52194Wolverton puckered up his face, and snarled:"Why should n''t I marry if I choose?
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Wolverton?"
52194Would his sickness be accepted as an excuse?
52194Would you have me bow down to him, and meekly yield up my rights?"
52194You admit that?"
52194You have n''t left any round?"
52194You know I hold a mortgage on it for three thousand dollars?"
52194You would n''t expect him to lend the money without security, would you?"
52194ai n''t dis fun?"
52194ejaculated Wolverton, awed in spite of himself by the sight,"who would have dreamed of this?
52194enough for you?"
52194he exclaimed, furiously, as he picked himself up,"what made you do that?"
52194was he to lose the only money of any account which he ever possessed?