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I've got to have you we can throw in our stock together!" There was a startled pause, in which each stared at the other as if wondering what had happened, and then Mary Fortune smiled. It was a very nice smile, with nothing of laughter in it, but it served to recall Rimrock to his senses. "I think I know what you mean," she said at last, "but don't you think you've said enough?
She coiled up lazily in her soft plush great-chair and regarded him with languid eyes, and Rimrock never suspected that the words he had spoken would go straight to Stoddard that night. He forgot his rejection of a get-together plan and his final refusal of common stocks; all he saw was this woman with her half-veiled glances and the firelight as it played on her arms.
Petty winners drifted off to try their luck at monte, the sports took a flier at roulette; and as the gambling spirit, so subtly fed, began to rise to a fever, Rimrock Jones, the cause of all this heat, bet more and more and still won.
But when you didn't come and complete your assessment work, I went up and jumped it myself. I got this great scar " she thrust back her hair "coming down the Old Juan that night. But I did it for you, I didn't do it for myself, and then you wouldn't take back your mine!" She bowed her head to brush away the tears and Rimrock stared and smiled at a thought.
"Would would four hundred dollars help you?" She asked it eagerly, impulsively, almost in his ear, and he turned as if he had been struck. "Don't speak so loud," she implored him nervously. "These women in the hotel they're listening to everything you say. I can hear all right if you only whisper would four hundred dollars help you out?" "Not of your money!" answered Rimrock hoarsely.
Sanders rode up as close to the west edge of Bear Cañon as he could endure. In two or three places the flames had jumped the wall and were trying to make headway in the scant underbrush of the rocky slope that led to a hogback surmounted by a bare rimrock running to the summit. This natural barrier would block the fire on the west, just as the burnt-over area would protect the north.
And then Rimrock seized her by both her hands and made her walk with him back to the hotel! It was no time for discipline, that night; Rimrock was feeling too happy and gay. He would shake hands with a Mexican with equal enthusiasm, or a Chinaman, or a laborer off the railroad. They were all his friends, whether he knew them or not, and he called on the whole town to celebrate.
I wouldn't cross that boy for anything in the world he's the best friend a man ever had. But put me down 'No' you will, won't you, Miss? I don't want Rimrock to know." "Mr. Lockhart votes 'No," broke in Stoddard peremptorily, "the 'Ayes' have it and the motion is carried. Is there any other business?" His cold, incisive words seemed almost to stab, but L. W. still swayed on his feet.
To Stoddard, at the same time, there would come nearly the same amount of money, but it would be gone within a few days. There were obligations to be met, as Rimrock well knew, that would absorb his great profits and more. The Tecolote Mine, before it began to pay, had cost several million dollars in dead work.
She's an Injun, once she makes up her mind." "Well, even so," went on Mrs. Hardesty placidly, "what reason have you to think she means trouble? Did you have any words with her before she went away? What reason did she give when she left?" "Well," began Rimrock, "the reason she gave was some operation to be performed on her ears.
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