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Morrow gave me a bill of sale from you calling for a hundred head of Three Bar she-stock, rebranded Triangle on the hip." Slade nodded shortly. "I gave Morrow that for two years' back pay when he quit. He could sell out to you if he liked." "And now I want to sell out," Carp said. "And be gone from here." "How many head have you got?" Slade asked. "Three hundred head," Carp stated.
"I even run your rebrand on fifty or so Three Bar cows. You knew there wasn't a dollar changed hands when Morrow gave me that paper which licensed me to rustle my own she-stock. We can't even prove that you didn't owe him two years' back pay and square up by giving him that bill of sale. There's never a check of yours made out to Morrow that's gone through the bank.
There would be no calf roundup proper that spring, for all calves were branded as they were gathered. Many there were among the she-stock that would not cross the river again; their carcasses made unsightly blots in the coulee-bottoms and on the wind-swept levels.
Bentley greeted her cheerily. Carp nodded without a word. "What are you two doing up here?" she demanded without parley. "I repped with the Three Bar wagon and Carp worked with you for a spell so we sort of know the range," Bentley explained. "Slade sent us up to drift any strays back south." "Those you were driving are Three Bar stuff every hoof," she said. "All two-year-old she-stock."
In addition to the steers and older cows that comprised every trail herd, the off-color she-stock had been carefully culled from the range. Harris pointed to the bunch. "Look that assortment over well, Billie," he advised.
We'll gather our own cows close to the home ranch and shove other brands off our range, throw forty white-face bulls out close round the place and start building up real beef; steers that will bring fifty a head where those runts bring twenty-five. And big red she-stock will bring more money too.
"To the devil with your money and your she-stock! I'll get out all right but I'll make my own way." "You're a stubborn fool, Robert. The Scotch now and then shows itself like that in a man. I got my start from my father and I'm not ashamed of it. A thousand pounds and I brought it to America and to Texas, and got cattle."
Warren squatted on a quarter of land. Harris bought a few head of she-stock and grazed his cows north and west across the Kansas line into the edge of the great unknown that was styled Nebraska and Northwest District.
All Carp has to do is to run Slade's Triangle on the hips of any number of Three Bar she-stock. Like I told you, there's no way to check Slade up on the number of our rebrands. If Carp gets caught it's his own hard luck." A dozen men from the Halfmoon D swarmed in the door. Mrs. McVey, the owner's wife, stationed herself in one corner with the Three Bar girl while the men gravitated to the bar.
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