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"Carryin' a good deal of hardware, ain't they, Gus?" Ferril smiled. "Most of the boys are quittin' that foolishness, but some of 'em can't get it out of their heads that they look big when they're gun-toters. Kind of a kid business, looks to me." The eyes of the cattleman rested on Houck. "I wouldn't call that big black fellow a kid. Who is he?" "Don't know. Reckon we're due to find out.
McCloskey tilted his hat to the bridge of his nose, his characteristic gesture of displeasure. "I promised myself that I wouldn't join the gun-toters when I came out here," he said, half musingly, "but I've weakened on that. Yesterday, when I was calling Jeff Cummings down for dropping that new shifting-engine out of an open switch in broad daylight, he pulled on me out of his cab window.
"I reckon his next move will be to send a posse of gun-toters up from Fayetteville," said the squire. "That's just what he'll do," agreed Crenshaw, and looked disturbed. "They certainly air an unpeaceable lot them Fayetteville folks!
"Governor," a voice replied out of it, "there's a geek procession just landed from a water-barge in front, coming up the roadway to Company House. A platoon of Jaikark's Household Guards with a royal litter, Spear of State, gift-litter, nobles and such." "Gurgurk with indemnity for the riot, eh? Let them in, give them an honor guard of Kragans, but keep their own gun-toters outside.
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