Soon as some of the shine wore off,
and you got so you acted like a real person."
"I saw it coming, when it first heaved in sight," chirped Miss
Georgie, in a more cheerful tone than she had used that day; in
too cheerful a tone to be quite convincing, if any one there had
been taking notice of mere tones.
CHAPTER XIV
THE CLAIM-JUMPERS
"Guess that bobcat was after my ducks again, last night,"
commented Phoebe Hart, when she handed Baumberger his cup of
coffee. "The way the dogs barked all night--didn't they keep you
awake?"
"Never slept better in my life," drawled Baumberger, his voice
sliding upward from the first word to the last. His blood-shot
eyes, however, rather gave the lie to his statement. "I'm going
to make one more try, 'long about noon, for that big one--girls
didn't get him, I guess, for all their threats, or I'd heard
about it. And I reckon I'll take the evening train home.
Shoulda gone yesterday, by rights. I'd like to get a basket uh
fish to take up with me.
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