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Theah's a new cattlemen's organization theah and they've decided on drastic measures." "Yuh can't prove a thing!" Gentleman John shot at him loudly. The Kid raised his eyebrows. "No?" he said softly. "Yo' men slipped up a little and left evidence when they murdahed Joe Morton. They left the bill o' sale he wouldn't sign! It'll go hahd with yo, but I'm givin' yo' one chance."
Take my word for it there's some white man behind this. There's twenty thousand dollars in the express box " His words trailed off, and with a moan, he breathed his last. Kid Wolf gently drew a blanket over his face and then turned to the others. "I think he's right," he mused, as he took off his wide-brimmed hat. "When Indians murdah, theah's usually a white man's brains behind them."
Happen you don't take to Texas, why, theah's New Mexico, the Arizona territory ... clean out to California, wheah they dip up that theah gold dust so free. Ain't nothin' sayin' a man has to stay on one range all his born days " "Looks like the war ain't doin' too well." Drew was watching the activity in the stockade. "Well, we lost us Atlanta, sure enough.
"Lissen, hombre, me I'm from West Texas, an' that theah's Comanche country, leastwise it was Comanche country 'fore we Tejanos moved in. Now Comanches, they're an unfriendly people, 'bout the unfriendliest Injuns, 'cept 'Paches, a man can meet up with. An' they have them some neat little ways of makin' a man talk, or rather yell, his lungs out.
"My dear señor," the governor said with suave courtesy, "the people you wish to rescue are not subjects of mine." Kid Wolf tried not to show the irritation he felt. "Surely, sah, yo' are humane enough to do this thing. I thought I told yo' theah's women and children in the wagon train." Quiroz rubbed his chin as if in thought.
Guess I'll trail 'long with you for a spell. You gotta cross Tennessee to git to Kaintuck." "Goin' home, Will?" "Guess so. Heard tell as how they burned out m' old man. Dunno, that theah's sure hard-scrabble ground; we never did make us a good crop on it. Maybe so, we'll try somewheah's else now. Sorta got me an itchin' foot. Maybe won't tie down anywheah for a spell." "What about you, Injun?"
"We're savin' our strength they'll be plenty of fast ridin' to do latah." The Kid could not resist the temptation to break into song. His soft chant rose above the faint whisper of the desert wind: "Oh, theah's jumpin' beans and six-guns south o' Rio, And muy malo hombres by the dozen, We're a-watchin' out fo' trouble south o' Rio, And when it comes, some lead will be a-buzzin'."
It was brief, but to the point: I, Gentleman John, do hereby give and hand over all my estates, land, holdings, and live stock to Red Morton, of Skull County, New Mexico, for consideration received. "Theah's a bill o' sale fo' yo' to sign." The Texan smiled grimly. "If I sign under pressure, it won't hold good," blustered Gentleman John.
In its folds was a greasy package which did indeed give up a treasure a good four-inch-thick slab of bacon squeezed in with a block of odd, brownish-yellow stuff. They crowded around, dazzled by the sight of bacon, real bacon. Then Drew pointed at the accompanying block. "What's that? New kind of hardtack?" "Nope. That theah's vegetables." Kirby spoke with authority. "Vegetables?" "Yeah.
An' theah's javalinas, the wild boars of the Rio country. Then theah's men what have had to ride fast on a day as hot as this, swallerin' dust an' thinkin' what they're gonna do when they catch up to them as they're chasin'; an' those men're 'bout as mean as the boars " Drew lifted his hand to Jim Dandy and followed the other two through the pasture gate. Now he grinned.
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