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Out there by the fence a voice answered sullenly in recognition of the speaker and realization of failure: "I hain't ergoin' ter shoot no more. I gives up."
Ye richly merits ter die an' I misdoubts ef ye escapes fur but I hain't ergoin' ter suffer ye ter contam'nate this tree an' I aims ter give ye a few minutes' start, ef I kin." Now she rose from the ankle fetters and the man took a step, to find himself free. "Begone," ordered the woman, tensely. "Don't tarry an' don't nuver let me see ye ergin'!"
"Back in the spring when I seen thet her mind war made up ter be a nurse, an' I knowed thet my own time war comin', I sold the timber rights ter these hyar woods ter a city lumber company fer a thousand dollars. They haint ergoin' ter cut fer some years yet, an' by thet time I won't be hyar ter grieve, an' Smiles won't neither.
I been thinkin' all up the road from Virginny o' this 'ere gol demnable money an' what I were a-goin' to do with it an' what it could do to me. An', sez I, I'm ergoin' to ask Jack to take it an' use it fer a wall 'twixt him an' trouble, an' the idee hurried me erlong honest! Kind o' made me happy. Course, if I had a wife an' childern, 'twould be different, but I ain't got no one.
"Bud," said the gun-man with a slow, contemptuous drawl, "we hain't ergoin' ter kill this feller leastways not yit. Them's the orders. He hain't ergoin' ter pester us inter hit, but we're goin' ter take him along with us. He hain't got no gun. I reckon you kin put up yours."
Parish Thornton went forward and took the pitcher and pewter mug from his wife's hand, then he shook his head, and his voice altered to a new ring, quiet, yet electrically charged with dominance. "No," he ripped out, shortly. "I hain't ergoin' ter send her away.
The reverend drawed a last will an' testiment fer me, leavin' this hyar land ter her she haint blood kin of mine, yo' know, nor adopted by law-an' I reckons hit will be val'able some day, fer a city stranger told me oncet thet thar's coal on hit. So my leetle gal haint ergoin' ter start her new life penniless, an' ... an' now I wants ter name ye ter be her guardeen till she air growed up.
Old man McGivins lays over thar, mebby a-dyin' an' this means a master lot to him " "If it's a matter of pay," began Brent and left his suggestion unfinished. A quick glance of warning from Acup cautioned him that this was a tactless line and one of the men answered shortly, "Pay hain't skeercely ergoin' ter hold a man up on his legs when them legs gives out under him, stranger."
Thornton," he said, and the aged voice held a quaver of emotion which men were not accustomed to hearing it carry, "I wants ter talk with ye with ther severe freedom of an' old man counsellin' a young 'un an' hit hain't ergoin' ter be in ther manner of a Doane argyfyin' with a Harper so much es of a father advisin' with a son."
"Hit haint ergoin' ter hurt her much, air hit?" begged Lou, with all the solicitude of a young mother. "No. We'll give her an anesthetic something to put her sound asleep and I guess that she won't know anything about it."
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