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"Shut up!" snapped Red, anger glinting in his eyes, and Billy subsided. Lanky and Skinny soon returned from accompanying the procession. "I had to look twice to be shore it was him. His face was plumb happy, like a baby. But he's gone, all right," Lanky reported. "Deader'n hell," remarked Skinny, looking around curiously. "This here is some shack, ain't it?" he finished.
"All right. Take the trees. Y'u'll be able to get into the game some then." They debouched from the road to the little grove and slipped from their horses. "Deader'n hell," murmured Missou, as he lifted the limp body from his horse. "But I guess we'll pack what's left back to the little lady at the Lazy D."
That's all it cost." "Well, it ain't worth eleven hundred and fifty-five cents. You ought to know that. I don't get your idea. That stuff's deader'n Adam's cat!" "It might be worth something some day." "How?" "It mightn't be so dead not if we went into it," said Bibbs, coolly. "Oh!" Sheridan considered this musingly; then he said, "Who'd you buy it from?" "A broker Fansmith."
He must be deader'n a doornail down there." The mystery seemed to be explained. But Walter was still thoughtful and curious. "What's over this way?" he asked, pointing to the hill east of the gulch. "More gullies," Rhoda said. "And somewhere is the bear den we're going to." "Is it far?" Walter asked. "It's in the gulch right next beyond this one," said Tom Collins, with confidence.
"Judgin' by what I've seen in the cove for the last month, he's gettin' better of it fast. I ain't no worse than he is, by time! . . . Wonder where he is! This place looks deader'n the doleful tombs." He hitched the horse to the back fence and assisted his wife to alight from the buggy. They entered the kitchen.
Along the middle of the floor, with bedclothes from the bunk heaped awkwardly upon it in the little one's efforts to warm it back to responsive life, sprawled rigidly the lank body of Joe Godding. Red McWha stared for a moment in silence, then stooped, examined the dead man's face, and felt his breast. "Deader'n a herring!" he muttered.
I fell off my hoss dead, an' I'm deader'n a door nail. I dassn't git up to git no film for nobody. I'm dead!" And the man rolled over and closed his eyes. "What's the matter over there?" called Russ to Paul. "Is he going to get my film?" "He says he can't." "Can't? Why not? Has he lost his legs?" "No. But he's dead. This is carrying realism to the extreme." "Oh, good-night!" cried Russ.
That'll kill our business proposition deader'n it is now. If he stays it will give a tone to the new management, and he can straighten the thing out for us." Not only did Cap'n Sproul fail to become enthusiastic, but he was so distinctly discouraging that Hiram forbore to argue, feeling his own optimistic resolution weaken under this depressing flow of cold water.
He was all knocked an' cut up, deader'n a stone. There'd been somethin' of a scrap in the hut. I calkilate Girty murdered Kate, but I couldn't think then who did fer Silver, though I allowed the renegade might hev done thet, too. I watched round an' seen Girty come back to the hut. He had ten Injuns with him, an' presently they all made fer the west.
"Aw, shut up! How the devil do I know? I don't talk with my arms." "Are you superstitious, Red?" "No! Shut up!" "Well, I am. See that feller over there? If he gets in front of us it's a shore sign that somebody's going to get hurt. He'll have plenty of time to get cover an' pick us off as we come up." "Don't you worry his cayuse is deader'n ours.
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