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Heart’s Desire

CHAPTER VIII
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The prisoner at the bar, thrown violently upon the ground, now sat up, half leaning against a pinon log, and contemplated those present with a cynical and unfriendly gray eye.
"Now," said Doc Tomlinson, regarding him, "you get him a few drugs, and he'll be just as good as new, right soon." "All I got to say," grumbled Curly, "is, for a thing that ain't got no teeth, and that's dead, both, he can bite a leetle the hardest of anything I ever did see." "Yet it is strange," remarked Dan Anderson, "that the innocent bystander should sit up and take notice, after all.

How are you feeling, friend ?" This to Bill, who was now faintly fanning a wing and ruffling up his yellow crest.
"I'm mighty tired," said Bill.
"I don't blame you," remarked Dan Anderson, cheerfully, turning to put down Suzanne and Arabella safe within the door, "but as corporation counsel I am bound to protect the interests of my clients.

Run, you kids! "As to you, Curly," he continued, "you represent, in your ignorance, ourselves and all Heart's Desire.

We have intrusted to us a candy palladium of liberty, which, being interpreted, means a man's chance to be a grown man, with whiskers, in a free state of Heart's Desire.

What do we do then?
Ask in a railroad corporation, and shut our eyes!" "And a corporation," said Curly, meditatively, "can be a shore cheerful performer.".


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