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"But if he was so game, why didn't Beaudry go back and take Meldrum's gun from him?" The buyer was on the spot with an eager, triumphant answer. "That just proves what I claim. He just brushed the fellow's gun aside and acted like he'd forgot the killer had a gun. 'Course, he could 'a' gone back and taken the gun.
"Sho, I got cranky and wouldn't eat. Yore folks treated me fine. I got my neck bowed. Can't blame them for that, can I?" "We must be going," she told him. "If you don't get over the pass before morning, Tighe might catch you." He nodded agreement. "You're right, but I've got to look out for young Beaudry. Do you know where he is?" "He is waiting outside," the girl said stiffly.
His unease communicated itself to the boy, who began to whimper softly. Beaudry, distressed, tried to comfort him. "Now, don't you, son don't you. Dad ain't going to let anything hurt you-all." Presently he touched the flank of his roan with a spur and the animal began to pick its way down the steep trail among the loose rubble. Not for an instant did the rider relax his vigilance as he descended.
Beaudry noticed that he did not take off his hat or lift his leg from the chair. "Mr. Street, this is my brother Hal. I don't need to tell you that he hasn't been very well brought up." Young Rutherford did not accept the hint. "My friends take me as they find me, sis. Others can go to Guinea." Beulah flushed with annoyance.
His proposition was to take Beaudry in as a junior partner, the purchase price to be paid in installments to be earned out of the profits of the business. "Course I don't want to take you away from the law if you're set on that profession, but if you don't really care " Dave lifted an eyebrow in a question. "I think I'd like the law, but I know I would like better an active outdoor life.
Beaudry bad an odd feeling that this was a call for help from somebody in difficulties. He quickened their pace. The nature of the ground, a good deal of which was deep sand, made fast travel impossible. "Look!" Beulah pointed forward and to the right. At the same moment there came a shout. "Help! I'm in the quicksands."
"You'll hear that he's got more guts than any man in Washington County that he doesn't know what fear is. Then likely you'll be told it's natural enough, since he's the son of Jack Beaudry, the fighting sheriff. Ever-rybody believes that excipt you and me, Dave. We know better." "What do we know, Pat?" "We know that the bye is up against a man-size job and is scared stiff." "Hmp!
"I don't care if he did come up here spying. Why can't they let him alone?" He passed a hand in a troubled fashion through his grizzled hair. "You can bet our boys won't touch him again, Boots. I've laid the law down. But I can't answer for Tighe. He'll do him a meanness if he can, and he'll do it quicker since I've broken off with him because you helped Dingwell and Beaudry to escape.
"Yes if young Beaudry has not been hurt." "You swear it." "Yes." She tossed him the knife, and moved swiftly back to the place where she had been standing. "Whatever my father wants you to do you'd better do," she said out loud for the benefit of Meldrum. Dingwell cut the ropes that bound his leg. "I'm liable to be Dan's guest quite awhile yet.
Somehow that pine reminded Beaudry poignantly of the girl they were seeking. She, too, had always stood aloof, a fine and vital personality, before the eyes of men sufficient to herself. But as the evergreen had stretched its hundred arms toward light and sunshine, so Beulah Rutherford had cried dumbly to life for some vague good she could not formulate. Were her pride and courage abased, too?
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