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"See here, you hombres, I'm on to you," said Ted. "Now you've got to do the square thing. You've beaten the dancers out of the music, and you've got to get in and furnish it, or I'll tell these punchers who plugged the fiddler's bow." "How did you get on to it?" said Clay, with a grin. "Never mind. Is it a go?" "I reckon it'll have to be," said Clay, looking suggestively at Billy Sudden.
And then one of the men in charge of the animals came out and managed to corral the wanderer. "Gosh! I'm glad we didn't shoot!" exclaimed Nort, as their tour of duty ended and their relief came. "Same here!" added his brother. "How they would have laughed at us if we had plugged old Maud!" This was the only disturbing incident of the night, the remainder of which passed quietly.
He turned a startled face over his shoulder and jerked the rifle up from the rock. Ward raised his sights a little and plugged a round, black-rimmed hole through Buck's hat crown. "Throw up your hands, I told you!" he said, while the hills opposite were still flinging back the sound of the shot, and came closer.
"Davies, you remember our locking those papers in this drawer last night?" "Certainly." "Well, look at it now, and as I found it ten minutes ago." The drawer was absolutely empty. The closing week of March was marked by a furious snow-storm that swept the big prairie like a besom, but plugged up every coulée and ravine. For four days no communication had been held with the Ogallalla Agency.
There was, however, what seemed to be a little pantry at the other end, and to this Kennedy deftly led the wires and then plugged them in on the other oaken box. He turned a lever. Instantly from the wizard-like little box issued forth the strains of the dance music of the orchestra and the rhythmic shuffle of feet. Now and then a merry laugh or a snatch of gay conversation floated in to us.
I caught Blenkiron round the middle, scattering his cards to the winds, and jumped over the parapet. 'Don't apologize, Sister Anne, said he. 'The game was as good as won. But for God's sake drop me, for if you wave me like the banner of freedom I'll get plugged sure and good. My one thought was to get cover for the next minutes, for I had an instinct that our vigil was near its end.
But apart from financial matters they were fast friends, and either would have trusted the other with anything he possessed. "Say," said McHale, "there's something wrong. Our ditches ain't runnin' more'n half full." Casey put down the hammer. "Maybe the ditch is plugged somewhere." "She may be, but it ain't likely. I've followed her quite a piece.
The gunboat was accordingly hauled alongside the wharf at Antofagasta, her heavy guns were lifted out of her, and the vessel was careened in order that the shot-holes below her water-line might be plugged.
Danny Mains robbed Stillwell's money gone your roan horse gone thet little hussy Bonita gone an' this Greaser near gone, too. Now, seein' thet you was up late an' prowlin' round the station where this Greaser was found, it ain't onreasonable to think you might know how he got plugged is it?
"I like to square my own accounts. It's allus that way. I get plugged an' my friends clean the slate. There was that time Bye-an'-Bye went an' ambushed me ah, the devil! But I tell you one thing: when I get well I'm going down to Harlan's an' clean house proper."
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