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As the little old last year's car bore them to the north, some long sleeping-image seemed to stir in Breede's mind. "Got car like this m'self somewheres," he remarked. Bean was relieved. He didn't want the name of a woman to be brought into the matter just then. "'S all right for town work," he said. "Good enough for all I want of a car."
"Janice, here, an' me hev been havin' an argyment right along about that rum sellin' business " "About the drinking, at any rate, Walky," interposed Janice, gently. "Wal ahem! ya-as. About the drinkin' of it, I s'pose. Yeou said, Janice, that my takin' a snifter now and then was an injury to other critters as well as to m'self." "And I repeat it," said the girl confidently.
She askt me would I druther hav her buy it for me, or have the money and pick it out m'self, and I spoke up right quick and says, 'Oh, cousin Bessie, I wouldn't think of givin' ya all that trouble. I'd take the money ef it's all the same t'you, and she jest smiled and said all right, she expected I knew what I wanted better'n she did.
The sheepman glanced up warningly, but Matthews was going ahead full steam. "We're both older than we were in those days, MacDonald, older an' wiser, an' for m'self, A should add, a good bit steadier!
"A gun fighter lets hisself git stiff," he winningly began; "then, first thing he knows, some fine day crack! Like that! All his own fault, too, 'cause he ain't kep' in trim." He jauntily twirled one of the heavy revolvers on a forefinger. "Not me, though, pard! Keep m'self up and comin', you bet! Ketch me not ready to fan the old forty-four! I guess not! Some has thought they could.
He says it over and over to himself and at last we make out what it is. He is saying: "I'd like to buy a little drink for the party m'self." "The poor creature is delirious," says Jake Berger.
He regarded the corpse as he spoke. "He 's up an' gone, ain't 'e, an' we might as well begin t' look out fer ol' number one. This here thing is all over. He 's up an' gone, ain't 'e? An' he 's all right here. Nobody won't bother 'im. An' I must say I ain't enjoying any great health m'self these days." The youth, awakened by the tattered soldier's tone, looked quickly up.
Daintily her handsome horse set foot in the water, hesitated, bent his long, velvety neck, sniffed, and finally drank; then, satisfied, stepped quietly forward, hock-deep, in the swirling, yellow flood. "Foller them stakes, Miss," cautioned the older trooper; "I sot 'em m'self, I did." "Thank you. Keep close to me, Connor. I've crossed here before it was staked."
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