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Coyote Pete, as angular, rangy and sinewy as ever, gazed as intently in the same direction as the lad, Jack Merrill, himself. The pause allowed the remainder of the party to ride up.
One on 'em is a big, long, rangy cuss, like a yearlin' colt, by gosh, and ther other's the dead spit of the school teacher at ther Four Corners, back er hum." "We must see into this." It was Ramon who spoke. As he did so, he advanced in his agile, cat-like way upon the altar. In his hand he held his revolver.
There were two of the men, beside Leviatt and Tucson tall, rangy looking their part. Ferguson watched them for half an hour, and then, convinced that he would gain nothing more by remaining there, he stealthily backed down the hillside to where his pony stood, mounted, and rode toward the river.
"Y'got the price?" "I ain't got even the makin's only an ingrowin' cravin' fer spiritual licker an' a hankerin' to see America first " "That hoss," the proprietor jerked a thumb toward the open door beyond which the big rangy black pawed fretfully at the street. "Mebbe we might make a trade. I got one good as him 'er better. It's that sor'l standin' t'other side of yourn."
The pigskin went sailing through the air impelled by the heavy boot of big Tom Curwood; it fell into the purple-covered arms of a rangy Wilton half-back who, instead of running with the ball, immediately sent away a long spiral punt that flew over the heads of the charging Ridgley players. Neil Durant yelled out a quick warning and turned with his team-mates.
"Well," ruefully, "they had a true Siberian trail all the way; it was clear and cold, and there was not a single blizzard. And the whole North knows that our rangy half-breeds are at their best when there are storms, and the route is rough and broken. The luck of the trail," sighing, "but at that, they were marvels."
Ward leaped into the sleigh, pulled his peaked fur cap down over his ears, and took up the reins and big whip. He brandished his great fist at the little group he had just left. "Better'n law!" he shouted again. "That for your law!" and he struck his rangy horse with a crack as loud as a pistol-shot.
With a last, breathless effort, she turned off the road and floundered through weeds and brush until she came to what proved to be the rear of the darkened house. Long, low, rangy it reached off into the shadows, chilling in its loneliness. There was no time left for her to climb the flight of steps and pound on the back door. The rain was swishing in the trees with a hiss that forbade delay.
"He said ye c'd make ut in two days?" he inquired. "Yes. The tote-road is well broken, and forty miles traveling light with that rangy team is not such an awful pull." "An' he towld ye phwere to camp. It'll be Melton's awld No. 8, where ye camped comin' in?" "Yes." Fallon nodded thoughtfully, and Bill wondered what was passing in his mind.
He liked an automobile, but he was too fat to sit in comfort on a rangy cow pony. "Keep head down!" he advised Nort, as he saw the lad apparently duck a bullet. "Guess that's good advice," admitted the lad with a sharp intaking of his breath. "Do same like soldiers," went on Buck Tooth. And, as I have said, the example of the troopers was one to be followed.
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