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And that was a lagging trot, which now did not leave Torn behind. The ride up to Auchincloss's ranch-house seemed endless to Dale. Natives came out in the road to watch after he had passed. Stern as Dale was in dominating his feelings, he could not wholly subordinate his mounting joy to a waiting terrible anticipation of catastrophe.
That's a week from to-morrow. She'll take the stage to Snowdrop, where some of Auchincloss's men will meet her with a team." "A-huh!" grunted Anson as Beasley halted again. "An' what of all thet?" "She mustn't never get as far as Snowdrop!" "You want me to hold up the stage an' get the girl?" "Exactly." "Wal an' what then?" "Make off with her.... She disappears.
Auchincloss's house looked down upon barns and sheds and corrals of all sizes and shapes, and hundreds of acres of well-cultivated soil. Fields of oats waved gray and yellow in the afternoon sun; an immense green pasture was divided by a willow-bordered brook, and here were droves of horses, and out on the rolling bare flats were straggling herds of cattle.
"Swaller thet!" yelled Las Vegas, with terrible strident ferocity. "Listen man!... I take it back!... I'll give up Auchincloss's ranch!" Beasley was now a shaking, whispering, frenzied man, ghastly white, with rolling eyes. Las Vegas's left fist pounded hard on the table. "GREASER, COME ON!" he thundered. Then Beasley, with desperate, frantic action, jerked for his gun.
I'll rest a little, an' you can pack the girls' outfit then we'll go. Sure you're goin' with us?" "I'll call the girls to breakfast," replied Dale, and he moved away without answering Auchincloss's query. Helen divined that Dale did not mean to go down to Pine with them, and the knowledge gave her a blank feeling of surprise. Had she expected him to go?
His voice was cool, friendly; his manner was easy, natural; but the look of him was what made Mulvey pale and the Mexican livid. "Reckon he's home," replied Mulvey. "Home? What's he call home now?" "He's hangin' out hyar at Auchincloss's," replied Mulvey. His voice was not strong, but his eyes were steady, watchful. Las Vegas quivered all over as if stung.
Suddenly, then, all his thought revolved around the girl, and, thrown off his balance, he weltered in a wilderness of unfamiliar strange ideas. When he awoke next day the fight was on in earnest. In his sleep his mind had been active. The idea that greeted him, beautiful as the sunrise, flashed in memory of Auchincloss's significant words, "Take your chance with the girl!"
John essayed no reply, and his brothers all had that quiet, suppressed look of knowledge under restraint. "Listen to what I come to tell you, then you'll talk," went on Dale. And hurriedly he told of Beasley's plot to abduct Al Auchincloss's niece and claim the dying man's property. When Dale ended, rather breathlessly, the Mormon boys sat without any show of surprise or feeling.
But you're welcome to a place in the outfit an' I hope you won't never disappoint us." Auchincloss's tone, passing from jest to earnest, betrayed to Helen the old rancher's need of new and true men, and hinted of trying days to come. Carmichael stood before Bo, sombrero in hand, rolling it round and round, manifestly bursting with words he could not speak.
Senator BRANDEGEE. Do you object to having that put in the record, Senator Knox? Senator KNOX. No. Senator BRANDEGEE. I would like to have that put in. Senator KNOX. What I am anxious to get at is to find out what became of your report. Senator FALL. I should like to know whether Col. House approved Mr. Auchincloss's and Mr. Miller's report, or the report of the witness. Mr.