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"And I rather think I am in the showdown," choked out the prisoner. "I'll need this money to defend myself when I come to trial." "You shall have it," assured Dan Badger "if you win it." "Well, I think I'll win it," said the ironed man, spreading out his hand. "I have four aces, and you can't beat that." "Oh, my dear saire!" cried the Frenchman. "Zat ees pretty gude, but I belief zis ees battaire.
The fixed population consisted of a few Mexicans and one white man, known as "The Spider," who ran the saloon and consequently owned Showdown body and but Showdown had no soul. Men arrived and departed along the several desert trails that led in and out of the town. These men seldom tarried long.
Suddenly he moved away from me, strode over to the curtained oval through which Norhala had gone. "Dick," I cried, following him hastily, "where are you going? What are you going to do?" "I'm going after Norhala," he answered. "I'm going to have a showdown with her or know the reason why." "Drake," I cried again, aghast, "don't make the mistake Ventnor did. That's not the way to win through.
When he learned from the messenger that Young Pete was in Showdown, he fumed and blustered until evening, when he saddled Blue Smoke and rode south toward the Flores rancho. From Flores's place he would ride on south, across the line to where he could always find employment for his particular talents.
"I think a number of us will bear out what Winckel says," O'Reilly spoke up. "For myself, and I think I speak for the other Irishmen here present and also for the forty thousand against England, but against the United States never. Not one Irishman can be counted on if it comes to a showdown against the U. S. A." "Nor very many Germans," added Winckel. "So be it," said Captain Knabe.
Flores turned and shuffled toward the corral. The Spider, standing in the doorway of the 'dobe, spoke to Flores's wife over his shoulder: "If I don't show up before next Sunday, señora, get your man to take you to Showdown. Juan will give you the money, and the things I left up there." "You will not come back," said the Mexican woman.
The mine was nothing; he could find him another one, but Virginia had played him false. He did not mind losing her he could find a better woman but how could he save his lost pride? He had played his hand to win and, when it came to the showdown, she had slipped in the joker and cleaned him. The Widow would laugh when she heard the news, but she would not laugh at him.
Dug Doble's big frame filled the entrance. The eyes of the two gunmen searched each other. Those of Doble asked a question. Had it come to a showdown? Steelman sidled over to the desk where he worked and sat down in front of it. His right hand dropped into an open drawer, apparently carelessly and without intent. Shorty knew at once that Doble had been drinking heavily.
Comes to a showdown we've got one table, four stools, and a bed that will make first-class fuel. We ain't so worse off." "If we only had some food," Mrs. Olson suggested. "Food!" Pete looked at her in assumed surprise. "Huh! What about all that live stock I got in the stable? I've heard tell, ma'am, that broncho tenderloin is a favorite dish with them there French chiefs that do the cooking.
"That's what you said before," retorted Collaton, his eyebrows and lashes even more invisible in this illumination than in broad day-light. "It's time, though, for a showdown. You drag me into dark corners and talk over schemes to throw the hooks into Johnny Gamble and I tell you I'm afraid of him!" "You're mistaken," asserted Gresham dryly. "It was I who told you that you were afraid of him."
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