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If there was anything crooked about the deal, and I set it down that there was with Sorenson mixed in, and with Vorse and Burkhardt the witnesses named in the deed and Judge Gordon taking the acknowledgment of Joseph Weir's signature, as the record shows, then there should be some weak spot that could be attacked.
Steele Weir turned his gaze on the saloon-keeper, Vorse. The man's right hand was under the bar and he seemed to be awaiting the engineer's next move, taut, tight-lipped, malignant. "That was for you too, Vorse," was flung at him. "One Weir went out of here, but another has returned." And he led his companions away.
If only I dared leave the place, I'd ride to Rosario, but the instant we vacated it, those yellow jackals down yonder would come swarming in." "Dot is right," agreed Geisler, with a frown, "dey know, vorse luck, aboudt der amount of goldt vot is stored in der strong room. I bet you your life, dey iss yust votching for a chance to make idt a addack py der mine."
Start the car, Meyers." The roar of the machine drowned the indignant lawyer's protest, the crowd hastened to give an opening and the conference was at an end. "Drive to Vorse's saloon; I want a look at Vorse," said Weir. "I see the place a short way ahead."
Wheaton says, 'There's vorse troubles hin the vorld. Now that we know and have faced the worst we can turn our hopes and thoughts toward the best." Poor child! It was well the future was veiled. The mode of Belle's activity was a problem, but that incipient young woman practically decided it herself. She was outspoken in her preference. "I don't want to work cooped up at home," she said.
Of one thing he was certain, however. His prolonged examination of the county records had revealed an old bill of sale of a ranch and several herds of cattle from one Joseph Weir to Sorenson, Vorse, Gordon and Burkhardt.
Presently a man came running to him, Miguel, his bartender, who had been one of the two men serving out whiskey to the workmen at the old adobe house and who at the break-up of the spree had hastened back to town to report to his employer. Now, it seemed, he had fresher news to give. "Yes, it is the engineer, for a certainty," he exclaimed panting, as he stopped before Vorse.
"They dragged me to Vorse's cellar," Martinez whispered fiercely. "They beat me with their fists, Vorse and Burkhardt. Then they tied me and squeezed my eyeballs till I could stand the pain no longer and told. I've been there ever since, bound and without food or water, the devils! Sorenson came with them last night, afterwards.
"We're all in it," Vorse added. Burkhardt brought his fist down on the desk with a sudden crash. "If he has proofs, then it's him or us," he exclaimed, while the blood suffused his face. "Him or us and that means him! I'll never go behind bars!" "Sure not. None of us," Vorse said. "It will mean " Judge Gordon began in an agitated voice, but did not finish. Sorenson gave a nod of his head.
"Then we'll give him another dose of our medicine." "If I know anything about men, he told the truth," Sorenson said. "Well, if the girl has it, we've got to get it from her if I have to wring her neck to do it." It was Burkhardt's inflamed utterance. A pause followed. "Sorenson, your boy is engaged to her," Vorse stated. "Yes." "Then it's up to him to get it first thing in the morning.
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