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You don't think I was foolish enough to go close and try to get a line on what Hill was writing, do you? Well, after he left the telegraph office he went to the Renfrew House. I reckon that's where he stays." "I don't like this a little bit," commented Katz. "I allow we'd better duck and do it pronto.
You'd like that fine, you double-crossin' sidewinder. I'll come with a six-gun. That's how I'll come. An' soon. I'll give you two days to come through. Two days. If you don't hell sure enough will cough." Whatever else could be said about Cunningham he was no coward. He met the raving man eye to eye. "I don't scare worth a cent, Hull. Get out. Pronto.
And he can't say that I did, and prove it. Now, Frank, you just hold your hosses. I'll ride over to camp and get my outfit together and come over here. Then we'll throw Steve Brown's hosses into your pasture, and I'll see that Sneed's stock is out of here, pronto." "That's all right. But Sneed will trail his stock down here." "But he won't find 'em here.
Funny, but I felt exactly as if somebody had stolen that headstall and spurs right out of my hand, and I just had to get it back pronto.
So there were the three hundred gee golly, but it had cost, that short stay in the burg of Bland's dreams. A hundred dollars gone like the puff of a cigarette! Well, there were the three hundred left he'd have been broke, pronto, if he had stayed there much longer. Another hundred he had spent on the Thunder Bird golly, but propellers do cost a lot!
"Devil?" repeated Bull, astonished. "Why, he's as gentle as a kitten!" "Because you seen Tod ride him?" Bridewell laughed. "That don't mean nothing. Tod can bully him, sure. But just let a grown man come near him with a saddle! That'll change things pretty pronto! You'll see the finest little bit of boiled-down hell-raising that ever was!
"Gentlemen of the jury," said his honor, "you've heard the prisoner say he didn't do it. Now we'll get down to the truth of it. What's the witnesses for the prosecution got to say?" There was a pause of consideration. "Speak up pronto," said Sinclair. "Anybody know anything agin' the prisoner?" Larsen stepped forward. "Your honor, it's pretty generally known "
"Burn the wind out o' here and start pronto, before yuh get a bullet through yuh. Savvy?" Kid Wolf decided to make one last appeal. If Modoc were insane, it seemed terrible that these others should be led to their doom on that account. Only the Texan could fully appreciate their peril. The wagon train was loaded with valuable goods, for these men were traders.
"Well," said he, "I've been thinkin' that the man that gets you, Andy, won't be so sure with his money, after all. He'll have your Uncle Jasper on his trail pronto, and Jasper used to be a killer with a gun in the old days." "No more," smiled Andrew. "He's still steady as a rock, but he hasn't the speed any more. He's over seventy, you see.
"Afraid you girl!" taunted Carmena. "He's only a man. A single shot will kill him. You have only to " "Basta. Him big devil. Me no shoot him. Him say you go Cochise, muy pronto." The stubborn coward turned away toward the windlass. Carmena glared after him in agonized desperation. "All right all right, Pete!" she cried. "Lower me to Cochise. But listen! You needn't fight Slade or any one.
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