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I, for my part, had my own secret cherished plan, which made my heart beat quicker whenever I thought of it. But I wanted somebody's counsel and help; and on the whole I thought my Aunt Gary's would be the safest. So after breakfast I consulted Preston only about my mysterious little box, which would not open. Was it a paper weight?
Cotton, Gary's companion, a light-haired, amiable but rather dull youth, stated that Houck was over to the ranch. "I reckoned he'd come hisself," said Pete. "He knows this country better 'n most." "Oh, I dunno," sneered Gary. "Some of us been here before." "They wasn't no line then," said Pete quietly, "but they's goin' to be one." "You makin' it?" queried Gary. Pete smiled.
The control exercised over him by the opinions of his employers and his readers, is not the control of truth by prejudice, but of one opinion by another opinion that it is not demonstrably less true. Between Judge Gary's assertion that the unions will destroy American institutions, and Mr.
"Any kid that's got nerve enough to down Steve has got a right to git away with it. If you corner him he's goin' to fight and git bumped off by a bunch of growed men mebby four to one. That ain't my style." Houck turned to several cowboys who had not spoken. They were Gary's friends, of his kind in a measure. "How is it, boys?" asked Houck. "We stick," said one, and the others nodded.
"On guard!" I said. "Is he? Why, he was on guard only a day or two ago. Does it come so often?" "It comes pretty often in Gary's case," said my companion. "Does it?" I said. "He does not like it." "No," said Mr. Thorold merrily. "It is not a favourite amusement in most cases." "Then why does he have so much of it?" "Gary is not fond of discipline." I guessed this might be true.
They'd be hell a-poppin' all over the range. Speakin' personal, I'm with you to the finish, for I know how you feel about Pop Annersley. But you ain't growed up yet. You got plenty time to think. If you are a-hankerin' for Gary's scalp, when you git to be twenty-one, why, go to it. But you're a kid yet, and a whole lot can happen in five or six years. Mebby somebody'll git Gary afore then.
He was a good sailor and a nervy sort of a man, but there was something so peculiarly devilish in the contrast presented by Gary's slight, feminine person and his abnormal exhibition of rage that the second mate began to doubt whether he had done wisely in shipping with an unknown captain on an unknown voyage for the sake of mere high wages.
"Captain Drummond," she said, with a grave dignity that was at the same time perfectly childish too, "I have told you about myself I can't tell you about other people." "Daisy, you are not angry with me!" "No, sir." "Don't you sometimes permit other people to ask your pardon in Preston Gary's way?"
The foreman of the T-Bar-T found him valuable as a sort of animate scarecrow. Gary's mere presence often served to turn the balance when the T-Bar-T riders had occasion to substantiate a bluff or settle a dispute with some other outfit riding the high country.
This yere lad hed got onter the racket somehow, an' say, he wus plumb mad; he wus too damn mad ter talk, an' when they git thet fur gone it's 'bout time fer the innocent spectator ter move back outen range. So he lassoed me down at Gary's barn fer ter show him the ol' trail, an' we had one hell of a night's ride of it. But, gents, I would n't o' missed bein' thar fer a heap.
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