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He saw them watching him always with curling lip and truculent eye; he heard references to his ability from them scraps of conversation in which such terms and phrases as "a false alarm, mebbe," "he don't look it," "wears 'em for show, I reckon," were used. He had learned the names of the men; there were three of them, known merely as "Lanky," "Poggs," and "Latimer."
"I guess you wouldn't talk about bein' slow, Jason Day, if you was arrested," Aunt 'Mira interjected. "Ma's right," said Marty. "Mebbe they'll put him in the cell under the Town Hall 'fore you kin get downtown." "There ain't no sech haste as all that," stated Uncle Jason. "What's the matter of you folks?" He spoke rather testily, and Janice looked at him in surprise.
"I wish that Pelliter could see you just for a moment," he added. "It would make him live again." Something in the soft glow of her eyes urged other words to his lips. "Mebbe you don't know what it means not to see a white woman in in all this time," he went on. "You won't think that I've gone mad, will you, or that I'm saying or doing anything that's wrong?
'Whether I want to git holt o' that prop'ty myself ain't neither here nor there. Mebbe I do, an' mebbe I don't, but anyways, I says, 'you don't git it, nor wouldn't ever, for if I can't make you sign over, I'll either do what I said or I'll back the widder in a defence fer usury. Put that in your pipe an' smoke it, I says. "'What do you mean? he says, gittin' half out his chair.
"Then mebbe you kin explain too," broke in Patterson with gloomy significance, "why he has bought up most of Spencer's debts himself, and perhaps you're satisfied it ISN'T to hold the whip hand of him and keep him from coming back openly. Pr'aps you know why he's movin' heaven and earth to make Don Jose Santierra sell the ranch, and why the Don don't see it all." "Don Jose sell Los Cuervos!
"Mebbe they will. Seems to reason they must have some kin even if they ain't nigh." Then the silence reigned again and the woman at the bed's head gave her undivided attention to the slow, regular motion of her palm-leaf fan.
"Although it's likely I'd seen them wheel tracks an' hoss tracks made where we turned off. But supposin' he does." "Milt, listen. I told you Snake met us boys face to face day before yesterday in Show Down. An' he was plumb curious." "But he missed seein' or hearin' about me," replied Dale. "Mebbe he did an' mebbe he didn't.
"Billy, you ain't going to hunt him up, are you? That wouldn't be fair to me or to the kid. My Jeanne 'll love her, an' mebbe mebbe some day your kid 'll come along an' marry her " MacVeigh rose to his feet. Pelliter did not see the sudden look of grief that shot into his face. "What do you say, Billy?" "Think it over, Pelly," came back Billy's voice, huskily. "Think it over.
He was holding him tight; and Deane, looking up into his eyes, saw that he was no longer looking into the face of the Law, but that of a brother. He smiled feebly. "Cabin back there in edge woods," he gasped. "Saw you coming. Thought mebbe you'd pass so came out. I'm done for dying." He drew a deep breath and tried to assist himself as Billy raised him to his feet.
Mebbe it dies, an' everything's all wasted. There ain't anything to tie to. It's like lookin' in a glass all the while. It's seemin', it ain't bein'. We ain't certain o' nothin' but our breath, an' when that goes, what hev you got? What's the use o' plannin' Thanksgivin' for anybody?" "Well, if you're hungry, it's kind o' nice to get fed up," said Calliope, crisply.
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