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Two heavy candelabra the loot of some old cathedral, and of Spanish manufacture were set upon either end of the great serving table. All these treasures, found in the ranch-house of a cowman of the Panhandle, astounded the youth from Amarillo. Nothing Mrs. Bill Edwards had said of Frances of the ranges and her father had prepared him for this display.
The enclosure made the great stage for the spectacle which the Jackleg people, the ranchers and farmers from around about, and the visitors from Amarillo and other towns, had come to see. At the back of this enclosure, or stage, was a big sheet, or screen, on which moving pictures could be thrown.
Yes, my building had been burnt to the ground two months ago. A cable to Caracas had not been delivered to me. So, back to Amarillo to view the ruins. In the United States of America one cannot insure for the full value of a building; or at least only three-quarters can be recovered. So my loss amounted to 8000 or 10,000 dollars.
He would have been a bizarre figure at a city table; nevertheless, he presided at his own board with dignity, and was a splendid foil for the charming figure of Frances opposite. In the midst of the repast the Captain said, suddenly, to the soft-footed Chinaman: "Ming! telephone down to Sam at the bunk-house and see if a hobo has just struck there, on his way to Amarillo.
Talk of the Texas Rangers, and raiding over the Border, and looting a Mexican hacienda, was bound to set the young man's imagination to work. But the dinner, as it was served in courses, took up Pratt's present attention almost entirely. Never not even when he took dinner at the home of the president of the bank in Amarillo had he eaten so well-cooked and well-served a meal.
There was much rubber of the coronel's, worth much money at that time, in the camp they had raided. So, after driving me like a beast to their stronghold in the hills of Peru, they came back with boats and Indian porters to get out that rubber. "On that return journey I tried to kill the leader, who was called El Amarillo yellow-skinned.
The curtain was dropped, there was a swift change, and it arose again on a hastily-built frontier town a town of one-story shacks with two-story false fronts, dance and gambling halls, saloons, a pitiful hotel, and all the crude and ugly building expressions of a raw civilization. "My mighty!" gasped Captain Dan Rugley. "That's Amarillo Amarillo as I first saw it, twenty-five years ago."
"We done been talking about you and your hold-up most of the time since you went to Amarillo. Beats all how little it does take to set folks' tongues wagging in the country. Ain't it so? "Well! that feller got clean away. And he took chest and all. Them fellers that went down stream found the old punt. But they never found no place where he'd shifted the trunk ashore.
"Oh my! you don't mean for us to climb up there?" gasped Sue, as one or two of her friends tucked up their skirts and started to mount the fence. "Sure. Reserved seats at the top," laughed Mrs. Edwards, likewise mounting the barrier. "Why! I am afraid I could never do it," murmured the Boston girl. "You'll miss a lot of fun, then," declared one of the Amarillo girls, callously.
He had seen a half-tamed steer roped and tied at an Amarillo street fair; but that was nothing like this. It had all been so easy, so matter-of-fact! No display at all about the girl's work; but just as though she could do it again, and yet again, as often as the emergency arose.
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