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Stop it. Hand me an assignment o' that desert entry o' yours by three o'clock, an' get out o' town by four o'clock. Hear me?" "An' if I don't?" demanded O'Rourke. "If you don't," repeated Mr. Hennage calmly, "I shall cancel the entry at one minute after four o'clock." "You can't bluff me." "I'm not bluffin' this time, you dog. Do I get that assignment of entry?"
I had been corralin' a heap o' city langwidge since I had been cooped up with Locals an' Hammy, but my heart failed me. I knew I was still some shy on society manners; but I also knew 'at the' was a heap o' bluffin' goin' on, so I stuck up my bet an' called. "Artie," I sez, holdin' out my hand, "you 're the first lord my eyes has ever feasted on; but I like you you're game.
As Shandy swept his wisp of straw along the sensitive skin of Diablo's stomach, the latter shrunk from the tickling sensation, and lashed out impatiently with a powerful hind leg as though he would demolish his tormentor. "He's not cross at all just," explained Mike; "he's bluffin', that's all. Shure a child could handle him if they'd only go the right way about it."
I knew 'at if things was changed an' I was in his place he'd give me my way, so I sez to the doctor, "Dock, ol' Monody here is a cure-all himself; he give me the best salve ever I see for my own shoulder, an' when he sez it's all up with him, he ain't bluffin'. I reckon you'd better just let him alone."
It's one thing for a bluffin' Ute to walk up in the daylight when you've got a fair chance to give him as good as he sends, and its another thing for him to get a bead on you a sittin' in the light o' yer camp fire him in the dark." Elmer saw and understood. So night fell in silence with Buck and Elmer keyed up and ready to meet any possible attack.
"If he told you to do something this Jake Houck you wouldn't think it was so free," the girl retorted without any life in her voice. He jumped up, laughing. "Well, I don't expect he's liable to tell me to do anything. He ain't ever met up with me. I gotta go peel the spuds for supper. Don't you worry, June. He's bluffin'." "I reckon," she said, and nodded a careless good-bye.
"I heard it all," said the Irishman, "and until the last word I thought you were a lot of bluffin' cowards." "You had your chance, Harrigan," said Hovey, "an' you turned me down. Now you get what's due you." The sailors crouched a little as if at a command to leap forward in the attack. Cochrane was perilously near. "If I get my due," said Harrigan coolly, "you'll go down on your knees.
"We couldn't help startin' late," grumbled the little man. "An' as fer that kid, I'd sure 'a' kep' him with us. Who's to say he ain't handed us a fool game? He's a crank, anyways, an' orter be looked after by State. He guessed he see the rustlers at work, but didn't rec'nize 'em. I said right then he was bluffin'. D'you think he wouldn't know Jim Thorpe?"
He was one o' these fellers what can take a lickin' without gettin' all broke up over it, an' he'd be just as gay about bluffin' the next stranger as ever, an' he'd be just as dominatin' over them what he had already bluffed. "Well, I'm goin' out for a little stroll," sez I, "but I'll be back in time for supper, an' I'll likely be hungry."
"Maybe your bluffin' goes with some people, but it don't go with me. You git to hell out of here!" "In your place and time I'll talk to you, you sneaking hound!" Colonel Landcraft answered, throwing Chadron one blasting look. "Take off that sword, surrender those arms! You are under arrest." This to Major King, who stood scowling, watching the colonel as if to ward an attack.
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