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"Figgered to plug me while the horses was restin', knowin' I'd have to breathe them about here. Thought one shot would get me. Missed his reckonin'. Must be a mite peeved by this time." His gaze became intent again, but this time it was directed to some underbrush about two hundred yards distant, back of the rocks.
"I'm reckonin' to be. I'd have gone before this, but I was waitin' for you boys. Nobody is sayin' anything to anybody. You're stickin' close to the Rancho Seco, not lettin' Barbara out of your sight. That's what I wanted you an' the other guys for. I'm playin' the rest of it a lone hand."
It it's kinda thrown me off my reckonin'! Are you are you figurin' on goin' right away?" Dryad spun about and threw her head far on one side to scan the whole bare room. "Tomorrow, maybe," she decided, when she turned back to him. "Or the next day at the very latest. You see, everything is about ready now, and there isn't any reason for me to stay, on and on, here is there?"
She sat on the edge of the bed for a long time, and Harlan said no word to her, standing motionless, his arms folded, one hand slowly caressing his chin, as he watched her. After a time, drawing a long, shuddering breath, she looked up at him. "How did you know what made you come here?" she asked. "I wasn't reckonin' to sleep tonight havin' thoughts about things," he said.
But it is strange to me how you find your way so clearly out here with never track nor trail to guide you. It would puzzle me, Ephraim, to find America, to say nought of the Narrows of New York." "I am somewhat too far to the north, Amos. We have been on or about the fiftieth since we sighted Cape La Hague. To-morrow we should make land, by my reckonin'." "Ah, to-morrow! And what will it be?
An' men is worth more to me than horses right now. I reckon," he finished, eyeing Calumet with a certain vindictiveness, which had undoubtedly lasted over from his acquaintance with the latter in the old days; "that you ain't a heap smart at breakin' broncs, an' you won't want the black now." "I'm reckonin' on ridin' him back to the Lazy Y," said Calumet.
"You tell her anything you want to tell her, my boy," whispered Uncle Jepson. "An' if I don't miss my reckonin', she'll listen to you, some day." Masten's note to Ruth contained merely the information that he was going to Lazette, and that possibly he might not return for two weeks.
"They never came into the story at all. I'm jes' mentionin' this to yo' to show yo' that thar's reason in my advisin' yo' to keep clar o' this district. If you're reckonin' on doin' census work, yo' go somewhar that you're not known to any one. Thar's trouble enough even for a stranger in the mount'ns, an' a stranger would find it easier than any one else."
"Oh, I don't know; leastwise I ain't put up no white flag yet. You're game fer a try at gettin' out o' yere, ain't yer, old man? I've sorter been reckonin' on yer." "I'll take any chance there is," returned Westcott heartily, staring into the other's face. "Have you some plan?"
"'Sartinly not, ma'am, says I; an' I was reckonin' she was wantin' to borrer money. But what do ye s'pose it was, Norman? She goes and she says, says she, kinder hesitatin' like yet, 'Would ye mind, capt'in, a-eatin' with yer fork, 'stead of yer knife?
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