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"There!" he exclaimed, flinging the pieces from him; "you will never again disgrace that weapon by wearing it. Lead him away, Pedro; and if he attempts any nonsense, just choke him with that lariat."
The two north riders were making their get-away, also. The victory was complete. To their relief, Lefty and The Kid found that Red had received only a flesh wound above the knee. Kid Wolf tied the man he had caught with his lariat, then caught Red's horse and one of the loose outlaw ponies for Lefty. "Now yo' ought to be able to ease those Diamond D cattle on home," he drawled.
"I scents the aroma of dogma about Simpson in the way he throwed his conversational lariat at the yearling. He urbanes at her, and then comes his ’firstly,’ it being a speculation as to her late grazing-ground, which he concludes to be the East. His ’secondly’ ain’t nothing startling, words familiar to us all from our mother’s knee—’nice weather’—the congregation ain’t visibly moved.
As one of his listeners might have spoken of tea too strong at a Madison Square "afternoon," so he depicted the ravages of "redeye" in a border town when the caballeros of the lariat and "forty-five" reduced ennui to a minimum. And then, with a sweep of his white, unringed hands, he dismissed Melpomene, and forthwith Diana and Amaryllis footed it before the mind's eyes of the clubmen.
The sergeant raised his small, narrow, and rather piggish gray eyes to hers with a momentary expression of anxiety. "I must pe gareful what I zay," he answered, sinking his voice still lower. "We must poth pe gareful. I examined the lariat. I fear it was sawed. But we must not zay this." "Who sawed it?" demanded Clara with a gasp. "It was no one in the poat," replied Meyer diplomatically.
Eagle-eye shrugged his shoulders, if anything more indifferently than before. "No rope," he answered, as if it were a matter of no moment. "I'll get a lariat. That surely ought to be long enough," said Walter, darting away to the ponies. "Come back. There's no lariats there. They're all in the pack down at the bottom of the canyon," shouted Ned. "Then we're helpless," groaned the Professor.
He rode a mettlesome, half-broken bronco, a wicked-eyed brute, which required to be conquered twice within the first hour of travel; a second and more quiet animal trailed behind at the end of a lariat, bearing the necessary equipment. Hampton forced the two into a rapid lope, striving to make the most possible out of the narrow margin of daylight remaining.
No wonder he declines to tell what has occurred, so compromising to himself! But when the lariat is at length noosed around his neck, the loose end of it thrown over the limb of a pecan tree the other conditions being clearly expounded to him he sees that things can be no worse; and, seeing this, makes confession full, if not free.
"No, but perhaps I could lariat an old aunt for him, if he will like me better for it." "Aunt will do," said Strong. "Address the old gentleman in Sioux, and call him the 'dove with spectacles. It will please his soft old heart, and he will take off his spectacles and fall in love with you. There is nothing so frivolous as learning; nothing else knows enough."
The rider's face was hidden under his wide hat, but as he raised his whip hand there was the gleam of a yellow and black striped vest. Kiddie gripped his lariat ready to throw, but he did not throw it. Instead, he whistled loud and shrill, and, as the horseman came abreast of him, he called out "Nick Nick!" Nick Undrell drew rein, and, swinging sharply round, rode up to Kiddie.
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