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"In an hour or two: your friend has already gone before. Get ready." Klang and steps. Everyone very sore about me. I should worry, however. One hour, I guess. Steps. Sudden throwing of door open. Pause. "Come out, American." As I came out, toting bed and bed-roll, I remarked: "I'm sorry to leave you," which made T-c furiously to masticate his insignificant moustache.
"Roll out, you web-footed sons of guns, and hear the little birds sing praise!" Newmark, who had sat up the night through, and now shivered sleepily by the fire, began to hunt around for the bed-roll he had, earlier in the evening, dumped down somewhere in camp. "I suppose that's all," said he. "Just a case of run logs now. I'll turn in for a little."
Removing his utensils from the stove, so as to give the newcomers a chance to cook, he proceeded to take his meal from the top of his grub- box, himself sitting on his bed-roll. Between mouthfuls he talked trail and dogs with the man, who, with head over the stove, was thawing the ice from his mustache.
I put the bed-roll down. I stood up. I was myself. An uncontrollable joy gutted me after three months of humiliation, of being bossed and herded and bullied and insulted. I was myself and my own master. I have mentioned the length and breadth. The cell was ridiculously high; perhaps ten feet. The end with the door in it was peculiar.
And I placed my bed, bed-roll, blankets and ample pelisse under one arm, my 150-odd pound duffle-bag under the other; then I paused. Then I said, "Where's my cane?" The v-f-g hereat had a sort of fit, which perfectly became him. I repeated gently: "When I came to the bureau I had a cane."
"The law is all right, in spots. But they's a whole lot of country between them spots." Cheyenne cached the bed-roll, saddles, and cooking-outfit back in the brush, taking only a canteen and a little food. He proffered a pair of moccasins, parfleche-soled and comfortable, to Bartley. "You wear these. Them new ridin'-boots'll sure kill you dead, walkin'. You can pack 'em along with you."
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