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'Sadie, he said, 'if you don't promise to marry me to-morrow, I'll shoot myself to-night right back of the corral. And he'd have done it, too, and Sadie knew it, and said she would. Didn't they make love fast in those days?" "Oh, I don't know," Mary sniffed. "A week after you first laid eyes on Billy you was engaged.
Fie, for shame." But Racey Dawson had gathered up his clothing and fled to the back of the corral. Muttering to himself he was pulling on his shirt when Swing joined him at a safe distance. "Helluva trick to play on a feller," grumbled Racey. "Served you right," was the return. "You hadn't oughta called me half-witted.
The big bay alone, as though realizing the futility of such efforts and so conserving his strength for whatever was to follow, trotted proudly, boldly into the corral, where he stood, his eyes never leaving the riders, as his mates crowded and jostled about him.
Still grinning though there was now a quality in the grin that might have warned Lawson, had he seen it Harlan stepped down from the doorway, slipped into the shadow of the corral fence, and made his way toward the corner where Lawson had disappeared.
At the crest of a mesquite-dotted swell of white sand, several hours later, The Kid paused to look over the situation that confronted him. Ahead of him, to the westward, were the buildings of the Goliday ranch. Strangely enough, there was no sign of life around it save for the horses in the large corral and the cattle meandering about the water hole. Was the entire ranch personnel in San Felipe?
The houses were always of new boards, unpainted, perched on four-by-fours, in the middle of bare ground, perhaps surrounded by young poplars or cottonwoods, but more likely fully exposed to the sun. A trifling open shed protected a battered buggy on the thills and wheels of which perched numerous chickens. A rough corral and windmill completed the arrangements.
The bawling of a mother cow and a baby calf, separated by a corral fence, had quite drowned out the purr of her motor; her step as usual was light upon the porch. The first that Temple and Blenham knew of her coming was her form in the doorway, her face turned curiously upon them.
"Slone, if I don't know what you feel fer the loss of thet grand hoss, no rider on earth knows! ... Go in the house. Boys, take him in all of you an' look after him." Bostil wanted to be alone, to welcome the King, to lead him back to the home corral, perhaps to hide from all eyes the change and the uplift that would forever keep him from wronging another man.
Her blue-veined hands were so thin the light seemed to shine through them. Her long white dress clung to her slim form. From far back by the corral fence Cleve Whitmore watched her silently, his hands clenched hard. Tharon Last looked at her with wide eyes. She had forgotten all about this woman in the passionate hatred of Courtrey and the desire to pin his crimes upon him.
We've got to keep quiet." The cowboys seemed to know this, for none of them said a word. They kept very still and watched Trouble. Baby William thought he was going to have a good time. He had wandered out of the house when his mother was not looking. Seeing Ted, Janet and the cowboys down by the corral, he made up his mind that was the place for him.
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