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"People in Gallatin offered a thousand dollars for one man catched putting matches in a threshing machine. Other ranchers was willing to give a thousand if they found out what made their hay get a-fire! Hah! They don't know how we set a bomb so the sun'll start it! They don't think that the very fellers running the threshing machine is the ones that drops the matches in!
"Who put that up?" he asked, almost angrily. "I did," said Johnny, and then, anxious to shift any responsibility of the spelling to the shoulders on which it belonged, he added, "but Ben spelled it." "Well, fix it," commanded the disturbed author. "If any of the fellers should see that they'd think we didn't know nothin' at all. Put it w-e-double l-k-o-m."
Driggs dug his hands deep into his pockets and wrinkled his brow in thought. At last he looked up hopefully. "I'll tell you what I've been thinking about, boys. The town will be laughing at young Ripley to-morrow. But Rip, he'll be passing the laugh around on you young fellers, too.
"Buck, as we're lookin' fer grub, an' not trouble, I reckon you'd better hang up out here," Stevens was saying, as he mounted. "You see, towns an' sheriffs an' rangers are always lookin' fer new fellers gone bad. They sort of forget most of the old boys, except those as are plumb bad. Now, nobody in Mercer will take notice of me.
Tracks are fresher around that' water-hole'n what they have been, an' Applehead, he's all enthused. I betche we land them fellers t'morrow." Out of the arroyo in a place where the scant grassland lapped down over the edge, Happy Jack led the way and the rest followed eagerly. Too often had they made dry camp not to feel jubilant over the prospect even of a brackish water-hole.
He lifted the lid of the stove, spat into it as if he were spitting in the face of an enemy, and turned again to Lorraine. "What you seen what you say you seen that was done at night when there wasn't no audience. All the fighting the Sawtooth does is done under cover. You won't see none of it they ain't such fools. And what us small fellers do, we do it quiet, too.
"We'd ought to have questioned him. If we only had proof that the race was crooked " "You can so gamble it was crooked," the little man averred. "Them Centipede fellers never done nothin' on the square. They got Humpy Joe, and fixed it for him to lose so they could get that talkin'-machine. That's why he pulled out."
"Oh " she said in a gasp of misery; and releasing herself from Harney's arm she went straight up to Mr. Royall. "You come home with me you come right home with me," she said in a low stern voice, as if she had not heard his apostrophe; and one of the girls called out: "Say, how many fellers does she want?" There was another laugh, followed by a pause of curiosity, during which Mr.
But you look all right to me-that is, as well as any of you city fellers ever do. The last one of you look as white as convicts out o' jail. I reckon thar is so much smoke over your town that the sun don't strike it good and straight." "Oh, I'm all right," Mostyn said, good-naturedly, "just a little run down from overwork, that's all." "Run down?"
Then she cheered up, and faced around and said: "Danged if I didn't begin to think you fellers was deef and dumb. I did, b'gosh. Here I've sot, and sot, and sot, a-bust'n muskeeters and wonderin' what was ailin' ye.
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