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It don't do to pet cowhands." "Too bad you took all that trouble, Dug," the old cattleman began mildly. "The fact is " "Trouble. Say, I'd ride to Tombstone to get a crack at that young smart Aleck. I told him what I'd do to him if I ever got my fists on him." "So you did catch up with him." Dug drew back sulkily within himself. He did not intend to tell all he knew about the Gunsight Pass episode.
"You loaned me money, but you treated me like dirt now take it or I'll ram it down your throat." L. W. took the money and stood gnawing his cigar as the train slowed down for Gunsight. "Say, come over to the bank I want to speak to you," he said as they dropped off the train. "Nope, can't stop," answered Rimrock curtly, "got to go and see my friends."
No, he hated them passionately as the living symbols of Gunsight fraud and greed; the soft, idle women of those despicable parasites who now battened on what he had earned. But Mary Fortune, how else was he to meet her without envious eyes looking on; or stealthy ears of prying women, listening at keyholes to catch every word?
He set and looked off across the range toward the Gunsight Gap, at the head of the river, and I could see him get white under his freckles. He was game, but he was scared. "We can't help it, Curly," says he. "We've raised the girl between us and we've got to stick all the way through. You've been my foreman here and you got to be my foreman there in the city.
Even the driest formula, sent from one to another, may spell out that magic word; may spell it unconsciously and against the will, if the heart but rules the hand. Mary Fortune had told him in that briefest of messages that she was back in Gunsight again; and furthermore, if he wished to see her, he could do so in thirty days.
Well, the mine paid big, and if I didn't manage it just right I certainly never meant any harm. Of course I spent lots of money some objected to that but I made the old Gunsight pay. "Then " he raised his finger and held it up impressively as he marked the moment of his downfall "then this McBain came along and edged into the Company and right from that day, I lose.
"But I tried that before, when he robbed me of the Gunsight. My God, you wouldn't have me go to law!" "You didn't need to go to law," she answered, suddenly flaring up in anger. "I warned you in plenty of time. All you had to do was to go to your property and be there to warn him away." "Aw, you don't understand!" he cried in an agony. "Didn't I warn him to keep away?
A magnificent hotel, with the offices of the Company, was springing up across the street from the Gunsight; at the mine there were warehouses and a company store and quarters for the men on the flats where Rimrock had once pitched his tent. But the man who built them was Abercrombie Jepson the master hand was slack. It had killed a man and for that offense Rimrock Jones must wait on the law.
I lost the old Gunsight just by trusting my friends, and this time I'm not trusting anybody." "Oh, you're one of these cynics, these worldly-wise fellows that have lost all their faith in mankind? I've seen them before, but it wasn't much trouble to find somebody else that they'd wronged!" She said the words bitterly with a lash to her tongue that cut Rimrock Jones to the quick.
In the second place the transfer for the nominal sum of ten dollars proves collusion to perpetrate a fraud. And in the third place " "You're a liar!" broke in Rimrock, his breast heaving with anger, "he's as much a citizen as you are. He's been registered in Gunsight for twenty years and his vote has never been challenged."
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