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"Red," she said quietly without an attempt at preamble, "will yuh kill Matlock fer me?" He stared his astonishment undisguisedly. There was absolutely no doubt as to the seriousness of her question; the grim set of her jaws, the anxiety in her eyes and general tenseness of muscle throughout the whole lean body betokened that.
Yuh shore slipped in on us slick as a whistle." "I'm hopin' my bud, Joe, don't think it was my fault that Blacksnake got away with the herd," groaned the red-haired youth. "Reckon we'll have to sell out now." "That's it," agreed the eldest of the trio the man called Mike Train. "The Diamond D would be on Easy Street now, if we had the cattle back. The mortgage "
I stuck m' head out of the bedroom window oncet, an I let fly an' it landed on a lady; an' the missus went an' bought her a new hat an took my plug away from me. I had to keep my chewin' tobacco in the tool-box of my car, after that, an' sneak out to the beach now an' then an' chew where I could spit in the ocean. That's city life for yuh!"
But if he wasn't lame I'd have some! I'd show ye 't I admire gameness in a kid. I would so." Jeff nudged his neighbor into laughter. "There ain't a gamer old bird in the valley than Pop," Jeff cried. "C'm awn, Pop, I'll bet yuh ten dollars the kid beats me!" Pop was shuffling hurriedly out of the corral after the liniment. To Jeff's challenge he made no reply whatever.
"Not if it snows, it won't," Luck answered calmly, helping himself to the brown beans boiled with bacon. "We'll round up a bunch of cattle, and I'll shoot my blizzard stuff. I'll need more negative, though, for that. If I knew for sure it's going to storm " "I'm tellin' yuh it is, ain't I?" Applehead blew into his saucer of coffee, his table manners not being the nicest in the world.
"Gimme one of them dog-goned blankety bing-bing Ford auty-mo-biles," he commanded the garage owner who came to meet Casey amiably in his shirt sleeves. "Here's four horses I'll trade yuh, with what's left of the harness. And up at the third turn you'll find a good wheel off'n the stage."
"Afoot, air ye?" he exclaimed curiously. "What-fer idea yuh got in yore head now, young feller? Comin' back here afoot when ye rid two fast horses? Needn't be afraid of ole Pop not unless yuh lie to 'im and try to git somethin' fur nothin'. Made off with Lew's wife, too, didn't ye? Oh, there ain't much gits past ole Pop, even if he ain't the man he used to be.
"And say! yuh'd best keep your gun strapped on yuh, whilst you're down here," he told Weary, with some earnestness. "Spikes Weber is in this country come just after yuh left; fact is, he's got it into his block that you left because he come. Brought his wife along say!
"It'd be a good thing if you had some neighbour woman come in and stay with yuh," he said slowly. "But there ain't any I can think of that'd be much force. You take Snake and ride around close and forget things for awhile." He hesitated, his hand moving slowly back to his pocket. "If yuh feel like you want a gun " Lorraine laughed bitterly.
Looking at her mistress with blank astonishment, she exclaimed: "Ain't yuh goin' away, Miss Laura?" By a supreme effort, Laura pulled herself together. She was a fool to show such weakness. Why should she allow these men to interfere with her and dictate to her? Defiantly she cried: "No, I'm not! I'm going to stay right here. Open these trunks. Take out those clothes. Get me my prettiest dress.
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