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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I was just wondering. I got a curiosity to know why, thassall." "Then hogtie yore curiosity or you'll be gettin' yore time. I'm free to admit I need you, like I said before, but I can do without you if I gotta." "That's just where yo're dead wrong," Alicran promptly contradicted. "You can't do without me. Lanpher, I like the job of bein' yore foreman.
"Shucks," said Alicran, out of deference to the lady, "you don't believe me." "Shore I do," asserted Racey, "Shore, you bet you. I Careful, Lanpher! I can talk to somebody else and watch you at the same time!" "If Alicran was worth a " began Lanpher, furiously, and stopped. "You was gonna say what?" queried Alicran, softly. "Nothing," said Lanpher, sulkily.
"Lookit here, Lanpher," said he, quietly, "don't you try to start nothin' that I'll have to finish. I know you from way back, you lizard, and outside of my regular work I ain't taking no orders from you. Don't gimme any more of yore lip." "Aw, I didn't mean nothing, Alicran. You ain't got any call to get het. I need you in the business." "Shore you do," Alicran declared, contemptuously.
"That man," said Swing Tunstall, pointing a derisive finger at Luke Tweezy, "is a liar by the clock. I saw the whole thing. And all I gotta say is that Lanpher went after his gun first." "I ain't doubting yore word, Swing," Alicran said, tactfully, "but they seems to be a difference of opinion sort of, and "
"I was wondering where you was," Lanpher remarked with deep meaning. "I ain't rooting up nobody's gyarden," Alicran returned, cheerfully. "And don't wonder too hard. Might strain yore intellect or something. I'll always be where I aim to be always. You done scratched yore face, Lanpher." Lanpher turned from Alicran Skeel and spat upon the ground.
A few minutes later Alicran Skeel entered the office. "I thought I heard a gun," he drawled, his calm eyes embracing everyone in the room. "That man!" bubbled Luke Tweezy, shaking his fist at Racey. "That man tried to kill Lanpher! I call upon you not to let him leave the premises until I can go to Farewell and swear out a warrant for his arrest."
"See that wild currant bush." To Lanpher it seemed that the sixshooter was barely out of the holster before it was back again. But there was a swirl of smoke adrift in the windless air and the topmost branch of a wild currant bush thirty feet distant had been that instant cut in two. "What was that you was gonna say?" Alicran prompted, softly. "I forget," evaded Lanpher.
"Lookit here, Alicran," the peevish Lanpher burst forth when he and his henchman had forded the creek and were riding westward, "whatsa matter with you, anyway?" "With me?" Alicran tilted a questioning bead. "I dunno. I don't feel a mite sick." "What do you think I hired you for?" Heatedly. "Gawd he knows." Business of rolling a cigarette. "Yo're supposed to be a two-legged man with a gun."
"You need me to do anything you ain't got the nerve to do." "I got my duty to my company," Lanpher bluffed lamely. "Duty bedam. You ain't got the guts for a tough job, that's whatsa matter." This was rubbing it in. Lanpher plucked at the loose strings of his courage, and managed to draw out a faintly responsive twang. "I'll show you whether I got guts " he began. "Oh, look," said Alicran.
Was it a foreman you wanted or a gunman? And what did Racey mean about Jack Harpe a-bearing down on you so hard, huh?" "Nothing, nothing, nothing a-tall," Lanpher replied, irritably. "If Racey didn't mean nothing by it, what did yore eyes flip for and why didja shuffle yore feet?" "Whatell business is it of yores?" burst out the goaded manager. "None," Alicran replied, calmly.
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