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"Now, tell us, honest man, what through life has befallen thee to produce this sadness?" inquired the facetious major, adding, that he saw the tale of his trouble written in his face. The swine driver replied, that disappointment, and the malice of enemies, and the false reports of evil minded damsels, had reduced him to […]

"To the devil with your tinware; and if you cannot get it there fast enough by any other process, mount a South Carolina ass! for it occurs to me you would look well mounted upon such an animal!" This somewhat uncourteous retort disarmed the major, who stood for a time not knowing what to say […]

  "It’s a habit you have."   He rubbed his moustached lips along her bare arm and swung her again to his shoulder.   "Low bridge!"   She bent from her lofty perch until her cheek lay along his hair, and they passed into the kitchen, where he set her down with elaborate care.   […]

  Five hundred yards up the wide bottom of the valley the construction camp sprawled its ugly mass. From where he stood in the doorway he looked down on it over the grade–its straggling unformed planning; the flimsy shacks, half unhewn logs, half canvas, without respect for streets or angles or lines; its half-hearted struggle […]

  He reached for his tunic.   "You’ll have a chance to do credit to Blue Pete’s memory. . . . About Helen–wait till we see what size the cloud is."   He thrust his arms into the tunic and buttoned it tight to his chin.   "You leave on Saturday," he growled. Chapter 2 […]