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"What you calculate I'm wuth visible prop'ty?" "I'd say a million and a half to two millions." "Backin' enough to suit you, Mr. McKettrick?" asked Scattergood. McKettrick wore a dazed look. Scattergood did not look like two millions; he did not look like ten thousand. His bearing became more respectful. "I'll listen to any proposition you wish to make," he said.
"Down they come to Lemon County, a lot of those New York beauties, men and women, togged out so properly you'd think they'd spent their whole lives in the huntin' field; but at the first obstacle you'd see their faces go white as their stocks, and then all over you they'd ride from tail to ears, their arms sawin' at your mouth fit to rip your under jaw off, like they thought it was a backin' contest they were entered for.
"It ain't possible. Sally ain't the kind to make a fool of herself about any man, let alone a gun-fighter." "That's what I thought, but I seen her back up this Bard ag'in' a roomful of men. And she'll keep on backin' him till he's got his toes turned up." "That's another reason for you to get Bard, eh? Well, I can't send you after him, Nash. That's final." "Not a bit.
I bound up my wounds as well as I could but it was tough work backin' my bark canoe over the carryin' places on Bog River, and across the Ingen carryin' place, and from the Upper Saranac to Bound Lake, with them holes in my leg and arm, and the other bruises I received.
And when Harlan halted in front of them they stood, not moving a muscle, their eyes searching Harlan's face for signs that they too, were to receive a demonstration of the man's uncanny cleverness. "You was backin' Latimer's play," said Harlan, shortly. "I'm aimin' to play the string out. Pull or I'll blow you apart!" Poggs and Lanky did not "pull."
"Mees Burr, she in bookrary, yes," says she. "Oh!" says I. "The cousin? That'll be all the better. Good chance for me to be gettin' in right with her. Tell her what to expect, Helma." That's the sort of social plunger I am regular drawing-room daredevil, facin' all comers, passin' out the improvised stuff to strangers, and backin' myself strong for any common indoor event.
But I don't say that Arguilla won't try to raid the Olla and get that money back, after he's got the cattle movin' south. You see the high-steppers that are backin' Arguilla ain't trustin' him with a whole lot of cash, personal. 'Course, what he loots is his. But their money is goin' for grub and ammunition. They figure if he gets enough cash, he'll quit. And they don't want him to quit.
"John John Kendrick, if you dast to set there and tell me you're cal'latin' to you can't do it! You can't be goin' to try such a " "Oh, yes, I can. I may not succeed, but I can try." Captain Obed seldom lost his temper, but he lost it now. "By the everlastin'!" he roared. "And this is the young feller that I've been holdin' up and backin' up as all that's fair and above board!
"No use tryin' to bust his luck," he said, indicating Cheyenne. "Oh, I don't know," said Panhandle. "And he's got good backin'," continued Wishful. Panhandle slanted a narrow glance toward Bartley, and Bartley felt that the other had somehow or other managed to convey an insult and a challenge in that glance, which suggested the contempt of the tough Westerner for the supposedly tender Easterner.
"There's not a second to lose, but we can't do anything without Phil. He must lead us. There's been a plot worked up here for three nights in Conlow's shop, to burn' every Union man's house in town. Preacher Dodd and that stranger named Yeager and the other fellow that's been stayin' at the tavern are backin' the whole thing. The men that's been hanging round here are all in the plot.
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