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And remember, as sure as there's a God in heaven, if you make that girl's life a misery, or in any way hurt her, you'll sicken at the thought of Barnriff. Now you can go." Peter's quiet manner carried unpleasant conviction to the departing man. The conviction was so strong that he obeyed him to the letter.
And now the fall was advancing, and the hopes of winning through with the people of the place seemed as far off as ever. Prejudice still clung. Barnriff, willing enough to accept his actual innocence on the double charges made against him, still could not forget that he had helped the real thief to escape. It mattered nothing to them that in the end the man had died a violent death.
He had an axe to grind and wanted a sympathetic audience. While Rocket, observing his customers with shrewd unfriendly eyes, set out the glasses and the accompanying bottles he never needed to inquire what these men would take; he knew the tipple of every soul in Barnriff by heart Abe opened out. He was unctuous and careful of his diction.
A faint light of amusement crept into every eye, every eye except the doctor's. Suddenly his lean figure pounced forward and stood before the beflustered speaker. "I said 'how much?" he rasped, "'cause Barnriff knows its manners. Wal, the social etiquette o' Barnriff is satisfied, so I ken talk straight.
And by the time he reached the boarding-house all his irrigation scheme was forgotten in this new toy. Eve Marsham was in two minds of hailing Peter Blunt as she saw him pass on his way to his hut. She wanted him. She wanted to ask his advice about something. Like many others who needed a sympathetic adviser she preferred to appeal to Peter Blunt rather than to any of her sex in Barnriff.
"Yep." Then the freighter perceived the interest he had created, and promptly became expansive. "From the Æolian Musical Corporation, Highfield, Californy. To order of William Henderson, shipped to wife of same, Barnriff, Montana. Kind o' musical around these parts?" "Wal, we're comin' on comin' on nicely," observed Silas, winking at his friends gathered round.
Now I ast you, Gay, as man to man, if you'd know'd we was goin' to be ast to ante up fer her grub stake, wot could you ha' done him handsome an' moderate fer?" Gay squared his fat shoulders. For the moment he was important. Moments of importance are always precious, even in places like Barnriff.
"Which was a real mean trick o' fortune on us folks o' Barnriff," he murmured. In the midst of the laughter Peter moved away to the tables. He looked on here and there watching the varying fortunes with all the interest of his intensely human mind. The weaknesses of human nature appealed to his kindly sympathy as they can only to those of large heart.
It was a quaint, old-fashioned vehicle just such a conveyance as one would expect him to possess. It had lain idle during most of his time in Barnriff, and had suffered much from the stress of bitter winters and the blistering sun of summers. But it still possessed four clattering wheels, even though the woodwork and the tires looked conspicuously like parting company.
It kept his mind from brooding on the disaster to himself, and, to a man of his sensibilities, this was healthy. He had all the grit to face his fellow men in self-defense, but, to his proud nature, it was difficult to stand up under the knowledge of a disgrace which was not his due. He was within a few miles of Barnriff when his mind suddenly lurched into a fresh channel of thought.
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