Part 3 (2/2)
Jim was silent He was sometimes sorry for Carrie, but she resu chores you don't like and trying to please people who are often rude Well, I've stood for it a long ti, and she knows all there is to know about keeping store Do you think a girl ought to be kept at home? That she never hears the call of adventure like the rest of you?”
”Adventure palls One soon gets enough,” said Jim Then he saw Jake's smile and added: ”After all, I don't know----”
”I know,” said Carrie ”You are going back, and I a too But you won't have to take care of s”
”She has some talent that way,” Jake observed ”If you're not very fire you But what's your particular job, Carrie?”
”Supplies When it co foodstuff, menfolk don't kno to buy Then they waste, and the hash a man camp-cook puts up is seldom fit to eat”
”There's so ”It looks as if you had got your program fixed”
”I have,” said Carrie, with resolute quietness ”I'ree When Carrie talks like that she can't be uets tired she can coet tired,” said Carrie ”But I shall not co: I have a share in the Bluebird and want a stake on the telegraph line Well, I've saved a hundred dollars”
”Carrie's pile!” Jake reirl my sister is As a business proposition, our venture's huh to stand for one setback, and if luck's against us we'll sure go broke To begin with, I've got to put up a big bluff on the construction departet the job; look as if I owned a bank roll and didn't care if we got paid or not
Well, one takes steep chances in this country, and I allow there's sooes out with an ax, five dollars, and a bag of flour, to e
Folks don't kno much he means and all he has to stand for”
Carrie's eyes sparkled ”You and Ji to find out”
Then Mrs Winter caht dull until he saw her work She listened,a few remarks, while Jake talked about their plans
”Well,” she said at length, ”your cousin is coot to be run; you'll need so broke,” Carrie rejoined with a hint of eood for your sake So as you like”
Mrs Winter s; I've hustled so long Still I've soht I'd like to find out how it feels just to sit quiet for a piece Now the oven's good and hot; there's a batch of biscuit ready and you'd better coone Jake looked at his comrade
”I allow the women's part is most as hard as ours, and Carrie hit it when she said I had to ood”
Jim nodded ”I like your sister, and your mother's very fine I want to help you help them all I can”
”Sure, I know,” said Jake, and then his eyes twinkled, for he had noted Jiht aardness ”You went rather farther than you lish streak s; I' to bed”
Jim went to bed and soon went to sleep He was not well yet and had had an exciting day