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Updated: June 26, 2025
From it, too, there came faintly the sound of a voice, high and frightened, in which sobs and hysteria struggled. By means of a post the Arizonian climbed to the top of the little back porch. Leaning as far as he could toward the window of the lighted room, he could see Pasquale and Harrison. The woman, whoever she might be, was in the corner of the room beyond his vision.
The Arizonian was making play with a platter of bacon and fried eggs when I joined him. "How d'ye do? Ready for the round-up again?" he asked cheerfully, with his mouth full. "My arm's stiff, and when I move there's a pain jumps in it. Otherwise I'm fit as a fiddle. Anything new in the way of trouble?" "Not a thing. We've arranged a code of signals with our friends at the wheel.
For a moment Billie was shaken by the fear that the Arizonian might be dead, but he rejected it as not at all likely. Yet when he held his hand against the heart of the wounded man he was not sure that he could detect a beating. From the river he brought water in his hat and splashed it into the white face. He undid the shoulder bandages, soaked them in cold water, and rebound the wound.
"And you killed him," Jimmie breathed, his eyes popping out. "Killed nothing," answered the Arizonian in disgust. "I missed him a mile, but he was so plumb discouraged with the heat and with running his laigs off that he up and laid down and handed in his checks. He's the only Spaniard I've got to my credit and Mr. Blythe here always claimed half of him because he ran faster."
After having fought for it and won it the treasure was not ours. The thing hit me like a blow in the face. I spoke my thought aloud. Sam looked blankly at me. Yeager laughed grimly. There was a good deal of the primitive man still in the Arizonian. "If they want it let them come and take it. I reckon finding is keeping." But I knew the matter could not be settled so easily as that.
Two of you will have to carry him." "But if he tries to escape, señor " "Don't be a fool," snapped Holcomb curtly. The captain was troubled in his heart. Had he saved this fine young fellow to be the plaything of old Pasquale's vengeance? He knew well enough what would happen to the Arizonian if Ruth escaped. But as long as there was life there was a chance.
Our friends were hard pressed. Blythe was keeping the door against a mob, while Yeager was firing through the window. Twice I saw the captain's cutlas flash. Then I lost sight of him and I knew that Bothwell had forced the entrance. At the same instant the Arizonian disappeared from the opening which he had been using as a porthole.
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