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Frances shuddered for the homesteaders when she looked out of her window upon this formidable force of lean-legged, gaunt-cheeked gun-fighters. They were men of the trade, cowboys who had fought their employers' battles from the Rio Grande to the Little Missouri.
He accordingly laid his plans to kill Jack Crawford, who was chosen as miners' sheriff. Plummer undertook one expedient after another to draw Crawford into a quarrel, in which he knew he could kill him; for Plummer's speed with the pistol had been proved when he killed Jack Cleveland, one of his own best gun-fighters.
That'll stop him from doin' any more dirty work for the railroad. He was one of their top gun-fighters always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm." "Where does he live?" Saxon inquired. "Up on Adeline, near Tenth fine neighborhood an' fine two-storied house. He must pay thirty dollars a month rent.
A queer, cold chill had come over Deveny a vague dread, a dragging reluctance an indecision that startled him and made of his thoughts an odd jumble of half-formed impulses that seemed to die before they could become definite. He had faced gun-fighters before, and had felt no fear of them.
In my experience, I ain't never seen but one judge that couldn't be bought; money an' influence don't count a whoop with him. It's Judge Colt, gents! You all know him; an' with him on our side we can round up Moran an' his crew of gun-fighters, an' ship 'em out of the country for keeps. Now's the time!
"He's been telling you," she accused. "He did sort of mention it," Waddles confessed. "Then his idea is to import a bunch of gun-fighters," she said. "I won't have a bunch of hired killers living at the Three Bar." "These boys will just be the sort that's handy at knowing how to avoid getting killed themselves," Waddles evaded. "You can't rightly blame any man for that.
Your father, Ray, insulted in his own court by a rowdy ranger!" "Oh!" cried Ray Longstreth, in mingled distress and anger. "The ranger service wants to rule western Texas," went on Lawson. "These rangers are all a low set, many of them worse than the outlaws they hunt. Some of them were outlaws and gun-fighters before they became rangers. This is one of the worst of the lot.
MacRae would have shot him dead in his tracks if he'd tried to reach a weapon. But a man who is really game which no one who knew him could deny MacRae won't, can't shoot down another unless that other shows fight; and a knowledge of that gun-fighters' trait saved Major Lessard's hide from being thoroughly punctured that day. "Give me your side-arms, sergeant," he said, nervously.
There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, ranging from grizzly bears to "mean" horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. Most men can have the same experience if they choose. They will first learn to bear themselves well in trials which they anticipate and which they school themselves in advance to meet.
Duane knew beyond all doubt that the gun-fighters like Bland, like Alloway, like Sellers, men who were evil and had no remorse, no spiritual accusing Nemesis, had something far more torturing to mind, more haunting, more murderous of rest and sleep and peace; and that something was abnormal fear of death.
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