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Updated: July 16, 2025
There was no use to fight or to put up a bluff, the men behind the wall were determined; and while, according to law, they held no title the law was far away. It was a weapon for rich men who could afford to pay the price; but how could he, a poor man, hope to win back his claim when it was held by Bible-Back Murray?
Even yet he could not trace the flaw in his reasoning which had brought him to earth with such a thump; but he knew, in general, that his error was the common one of trying to run a mine on a shoestring. He had set up in business as a mining magnate on eight hundred dollars and his nerve, and Bible-Back Murray had busted him.
The deputy warden stepped forward a little, then back to his place by the door; the professor rose but sank again to his chair; the bible-back of the fisherman pulsated as if a separate heart was beating in each great hump. Tess was as immovable as if nature had aided her to grow into her position. Skinner again tried to loosen the bare red arms.
Teams and motor trucks swung by, hauling in timbers and machinery, auto stages came and went like the wind; and old Mike McGraw, who had hauled all the freight for years, looked on in wonder and awe. Yes, Murray was a live camp, a copper camp with millions of dollars behind it; and Bible-Back himself was a king indeed, for he had tapped the rich body of ore.
She was now standing on her bare feet, but she bounded forward as the bible-back rose and fell, and large tears dragged themselves from the lowered lids of the fisherman's blue-gray eyes. She pantingly caught her father's hand in hers. "Kisses, Daddy Skinner, kisses on the bill for Tess before ye go ... Tess air a bad brat "
I can make or break any man in this country, and I'm telling you now don't you buy!" "I get you," answered Denver, and without arguing the point he rose up and went down the trail. When a man like Bible-Back Murray, the biggest man in the country a sheep-owner, a store-keeper, a political power goes out of his way to break up a trade there is something significant behind it.
Only when she heard her father pounding at the door did she lift her head. She jumped swiftly from the bed to let him in. No thought of supper for him had entered her mind. He looked his hunger as he noted the absence of a fire, and spoke rather mournfully, but Tess cut him short. The lithe young form bounded squarely upon the bible-back of the fisherman.
Murray's lawyer had known all this, but Murray had not; and when he suggested a suit to quiet title to the Silver Treasure old Bible-Back received a great blow. After all his efforts he found himself balked his work must even be undone. Denver Russell must be pardoned, or at least paroled, and as the price of his freedom he must give his word not to contest the title to his mine.
"Foreman, of the jury, have you found the prisoner innocent or guilty?" A pause, a hush; then a deliberate: "Guilty of murder in the first degree." A little higher rose the bible-back of the fisherman, lower sunk the large head between the deformed shoulders, like the receding head of a turtle, hiding itself under its shell when an enemy draws near.
"Who's this Bible-Back Murray?" demanded Denver, "has he got a clean title to his ground?" "You bet he has," replied Bunker Hill, "and he's got my name as a witness that his yearly assessment work's been done." "And you, I suppose," suggested Denver sarcastically, "have got his name, as an affidavit man, to prove that your work has been done.
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