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Beth Norvell

CHAPTER VI
17/23

Now, vat you say, senor?
_Bueno_ ?" Thus speaking, she seized upon the discarded and somewhat disreputable garment, flung it carelessly about her shapely shoulders, shrugging them coquettishly, her great eyes shyly uplifting to his relenting face, and began swiftly to fasten up her already short dress in disregard of the exposure of trim ankles.

The agitated Mr.Brown coughed, his uneasy glances straying down the open shaft.

He would gladly, and with extreme promptness, have shoved the cold muzzle of his Colt beneath the nose of any man at such moment of trial; but this young girl, with a glance and a laugh, had totally disarmed him.
Disturbed conscience, a feeling akin to disloyalty, pricked him, but the temptation left him powerless to resist--those black eyes held him already captive; and yet in this moment of wavering indecision, that teasing hand once again rested lightly upon his shirt-sleeve.
"Please do dat, senor," the voice low and pleading.

"It vas not ver' mooch just to let a girl see your leetle mine.

What harm, senor?
But maybe it's so because you no like me ?" Startled by so unjust a suspicion, the eyes of the young giant instantly revealed a degree of interest which caused her own to light up suddenly, her red lips parting in a quick, appreciative smile which disclosed the white teeth.
"Ah, I see it vas not dat.


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