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"That was the willingest horse I ever rode, and I hated to sell him, but he was tolable used up when I got across the line." Those marks on my arm? Oh! I got 'em playin' horse-thief. Yes, playin'. I wasn't a real one, you know Well, I s'pose it was sort of a queer game. Came near bein' my last too, and if Black Hawk hadn't been the best horse in Texas the old Colonel would've killed me sure.
"I been up and tried to look in, but they got curtains drawn. I would've like to 've seen how many gents are present. Nothin' doin'. It's a strictly private party." Dave told him what he had learned from the daughter of Emerson Crawford. "Might make a gather of boys and raid the joint," suggested Hart. "Bad medicine, Bob. Our work's got to be smoother than that.
"There wasn't any mad dog at first but I made him think there was. You should have seen him climb that tree, Jack. It would've delighted your heart. He won't be scoring us again in a hurry but if there had not been a mad dog I guess I would have caught it." "Be careful how you play jokes on the Colonel, Billy," said Jack, when he heard the whole story and laughed over it.
He stopped abruptly and sat silent, twisting his horse's mane uneasily. Then he looked up, smiling curiously. "If you hadn't come up this year I would've killed some of them fellers," he said quietly. "I'm gittin' as crazy as old Bill Johnson and he hears voices. But now lookee here, Rufe, you don't want to believe a word I say about this trouble.
"I haven't been a good father to you," the man began after a pause, "and I'm not sure I could do better if I should stay on here with you. So I might as well go now as any time! Your mother would've done differently if she'd lived. You look some like her." "I'm sorry I don't remember her," remarked Virginia apologetically. "She went away when you were too little even to know her.
Now will you please write what I suggest? Dr. Bell is with my sister. At least, I suppose he is with her, as Dr. Walker desired to have his opinion. My sister is dying dying, you understand?" Enid's voice had sunk to a passionate whisper. The hand that she laid on David's shoulder was trembling strangely. At that moment he would've done anything for her.
And Sam and Archie, I could see, were working over to finish the Aurora's new crew, and would've got 'em, too, but Argand, inside the bar, picks up a bung-starter, sneaks down and gives Sam and Archie a couple of slick taps over the ear, and down they went just slid feet first away from the bar and on to the floor, flat and as they slid Argand reaches over and grabs the turkey out of Sam's hand.
Three weeks ago, up to the dock in Bayonne, a bunch lit a candle to look for something in the corner of an oil ship's tank, and the coroner couldn't tell the buttons of one from the other. Gas, yes. Another half minute and these chaps would've got the surprise of their lives.
"They'll get 'em," he muttered to himself. He was alone in his place, the Idle Hour. He had sent every available man, even his bartender, out on the chase. He wanted to finish, at all costs, what he had begun. "It was all due to that blasted hombre from Texas!" he groaned. "I wish I had him here, curse him! It would've all gone smooth enough if he hadn't meddled. Well, he'll pay!
"I told you his honor would come again!" said the woman, turning to her husband; "but I was really afeared it mightn't be in our time; and as we've no one to leave in our shoes, I'm of the 'pinion that the place would've dropped off to some stranger."
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