24/27 I've got a noospaper, an' only four weeks' old, the _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_." "Has the United States and Spain--" "Not so fast, not so fast!" The long Yankee waved his arms for silence, cutting off Frona's question which was following fast on that of Corliss. "Has--" "Now you keep quiet, Miss Frona, till I tell you about it reg'lar. The dummy could a-got a hundred fer it, easy, if he'd held on till he made town--" "But what does it say? It's the only one that come in. |