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If it had been Peth, Trask would not have admitted his own identity. "Then it's all right," said the other. "I'm Bevins. Where's the skipper?" "In his room asleep," answered Trask, still cautious, and not to be fooled into telling the truth. If they expected Jarrow, it would puzzle them to be told the captain was not there to meet them. "Look out for him," said Bevins, hastily.
Bevins said that Doc had once killed a man, and Jarrow knew about it, with the result that the captain held the Negro under his control. During the night they heard Peth halloing to the schooner, calling for Jarrow, but they gave no answer.
Hester Bevins, of a mother who died bearing her and one of those disappearing fathers who can speed away after the accident without even stopping to pick up the child or leave a license number, was reared no, grew up, is better in the home of an aunt. A blond aunt with many gold teeth and many pink and blue wrappers.
Scogin Bevins threw out her hands to Mrs. Burkhardt in a wide gesture, indicating her mother with a forefinger, then with it tapping her own brow. "Crazy as a loon! Bats!" "If your father had " "Ma, for Gossakes " "You talk to Kittie, Hanna. My girls won't none of 'em listen to me no more. I tell 'em they're fightin' over my body before it's dead for this house and the one on Ludlow Street.
If the three in the boat had been in league with Jarrow, it was improbable that they would tell Trask that the captain was a menace. Bevins then asked to see Jarrow. So Trask sent him aft and gave him matches to examine the captain's room. He came back presently, and with considerable satisfaction assured his companions that they need have no further fear of the skipper.
"Come up closer so I can look into the boat," commanded Trask. "You better lock the skipper in his room," said Bevins. "We don't want to come aboard if he's going to make a row. He's a slick one, and he thought we stood in with him thought we'd come out with Mr. Peth to put you ashore, but we give 'em the dish Mr. Peth and the nigger. You better git the skipper or he'll be down on ye."
Trask searched him from head to toe while Locke and Tom kept watch on the others in the dinghy. Trask believed that Bevins was telling the truth. His warning about the captain and his reluctance to come aboard until he was assured that Jarrow could do no harm were convincing.
I at once covered Bevins with my revolver, but as I saw that he could hardly stir, and was making no demonstration, I lowered the weapon. Just then Doc came in swearing "a blue streak," and announced that Williams had escaped.
Green then disarmed him and brought him out. We looked through the house and found their saddles, pack-saddles, blankets, overcoats, lariats and two Henry rifles, which we took possession of. The horses and mules we tied in a bunch, and with the whole outfit we returned to Denver, where we lodged Williams and Bevins in jail, in charge of my friend, Sheriff Edward Cook.
Often her childish sleep in a small top room with slanting sides would be broken upon by loud ribaldry that lasted into dawn, but never by word, and certainly not by deed, was she to know from her aunt any of its sordid significance. Literally, Hester Bevins was left to feather her own nest. There were no demands made upon her.
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