B. M. Bower

Name: The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4
Author: B. M. Bower

The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

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“The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4”, published in 1914, is a work by B. M. Bower. It explores elements such as Shelton, Burney and Spooky.

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ Spider's eyes widened perceptibly, and he ducked quite frankly out of range. "Aw, I was only joshing, Shep!" he cried reproachfully. "You don't want to take things too serious. I never meant anything."
"Neither did I," retorted Shelton. "What are you going to do now? Go on playing snakes?"
"Nah." To prove it, Spider broke his gun, emptied the remaining cartridges in his palm, and threw the revolver on his bed. "What are you fellers grinning your heads off about?" he demanded fretfully of Spooky and Jim. "How'd I know the kid could hit where he aimed at? ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ Spider went over and stood guard before the shelf. His face was sober except for the lurking little devil of fun in his eyes. "Here's four letters from mamma and Susie and Sister Ann and the little fairy that works in the candy store on the corner," he informed Shelton. "If you can say Shelton She Sherman sells sea shells on the sheshore—say it right, I mean—you can have 'em."
"No, he can't!" interjected Spooky, rising up, recovered from his fit. "He can't have but one for every time he says it "
"He can't have but one try for every letter," put in Jim, coming up. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ He reached out a great paw and fumbled for the door latch.
"You want to cut out this shooting around here," he said to Spider, in the tone of the master speaking to his man. "Guns ain't made to play with." He pulled open the door and stood hesitating on the threshold. "Come out here, kid; I want to see yuh," he commanded, and went outside.
Shelton sighed and folded up his letter. The one thing he missed most at the Sunbeam, it seemed to him then, was neither companionship nor the creature comforts of life, but privacy. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ Why, anybody can read that right off. Anybody that ain't drunk," he amended.
"You try it," Spooky challenged. "Bet you four bits that you can't say it straight." He stood a third letter up, and after that a fourth. "Now read 'em all—just the names—one after another, and see who's drunk!" he urged. "Bet you four bits you can't do it."
"Shelton—C—Sherman. Shelton She—C—Sherman. Shelton She Sher—— Oh, thunder!" surrendered Spider, laughing ruefully. "Come on, Jim. You try it." ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ But Burney turned his back and bent farther over the coals, and gave Shelton to understand by his very posture that the subject was closed. So Shelton went back to the bunk house and read his letters in what one might call peace, since the rambunctious ones were wrangling amicably over a game of solo, and Pike had gone to bed. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ A man's liable to get bit."
Surprised, Shelton looked at him. It was a poor reason to give a man, he thought. "There aren't as many as there was," he returned amusedly. "The girl and I together killed about sixteen. Here are the rattles of half of them."
Burney never glanced toward Shelton's outstretched palm. "It ain't no place for you, over there," he reiterated vaguely. "You better keep away from them hills."
"Well——" Shelton was going to argue the point, to get some better reason from Burney than the one he had given. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 4 (1914)

“ Stands a feller in hand to duck, and duck quick, when a strange hand points a gun at yuh. No telling——"
"I didn't duck, did I?" Shelton cut in shrewdly. "And I didn't know how straight you could shoot, either. I took a chance, same as a fellow has to take if he wants to have any pleasure in life. Same as the girl said I took when I went down into the snakes' den to get the rattles off the dead ones."
"Yes, you did—not!" Spider might be momentarily taken aback, but he was not the one to subside permanently. ”

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