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Updated: June 16, 2025
He was trying to see in what his advance theories had miscarried. For certainly it had seemed extremely unlikely that Chavez would have had three tens. Why, there were only four tens in the deck of fifty-two, there were four men playing, there remained in the deck, untouched, thirty-two cards 'Deal 'em up, said Barbee. 'Your deal, old boy.
Barbee shook his head and reached for his tobacco and papers. He was young after all, was Barbee, and this was his first man. "Andy Sprague, it was," said Barbee. "He's dead now." There fell a heavy, breathless silence upon the three standing there under the stars. Terry shivered as though with cold and drew a step closer to Steve; he felt her hand on his arm.
First into town that morning rode Yellow Barbee; with no urge to linger and a definite destination ahead, he always rode hard, his hat far back, his blue eyes shining.
Down in San Ramon Pony Lee knows; at the court-house it is known. Men give tips to their friends. Courtot's crowd knows. Out here my men know; Carr and Barbee know. Already there are a hundred men, maybe several times a hundred, who know. And you may be sure that already they are coming like a train of ants. Once gold has been uncovered the secret is out.
Steve had hardly expected this. But he answered calmly, even lightly. "I think I'd like a try at holding it." "That's two things," old man Packard said crisply. "Number three is this here: Blenham tells, me you've put Royce in as foreman under you?" "I offered him the place. He could have it yet if he wanted it. But he refused. I've passed the job on to a man named Barbee."
While he himself is kept in close confinement, his enemy may manufacture evidence which he alone would be able to disprove; and the chance is never given him to disprove it." The Judge turned and looked at Barbee in simple silence. Barbee sprang to his feet: "It is a damned shame!" he cried. "Damn the French! damn such a civilization." "Why damn the French code?
It was a great story, as Ike Webb told it how, still sitting on the floor, old Judge Barbee got his wits back and by word of mouth commissioned the major a special sergeant-at-arms; how the major privily sent men to close and lock and hold the doors so that the Stickney people couldn't get out to bolt, even if they had now been of a mind to do so; how the convention, catching the spirit of the moment, elected the major its temporary chairman, and how even after that, for quite a spell, until some of his friends bethought to remove him, Mink Satterlee slept peacefully under our press table with his mismated legs bridged across the tin trough of the footlights.
"He'll be late," said Blenham. "He won't be here for two or three hours. Suppose while we wait, let's me an' you talk!" he said sharply, sitting forward in his chair. "Well?" said Barbee. "Talk an' be damned to you, Blenham. Only you don't talk yourself out'n the hole you're in right now. An', I promise you, you make a quick jump for a get-away, an' I'll shoot you dead." "I know," Blenham nodded.
"I'll put him on at least temporarily." "There's Yellow Barbee," suggested Royce. "Somethin' of a kid, maybe kind of wild an' harum-scarum, maybe not worth much. But he ain't a Blenham man an' he did me a good turn." Already Packard was on his feet, going to the door. "Barbee!" he shouted. "Oh, Barbee!" The bunk-house door opened, emitting its stream of light.
On foot now he must make what time he could to the Pinchot farm, some three or four miles further on, demand a horse there, and pray that Barbee was equal to his task. But first he must not leave the big roan to suffer needlessly and hopelessly. He struck a match and made a flaring torch of a little wisp of dry grass.
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