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The man was a heavy-set, bowlegged fellow of about forty, hard-faced, and shifty-eyed a frontier miscreant, unless every line of the tough, leathery countenance told a falsehood. But he had made his experiment and failed. He knew what manner of man his captor was, and he had no mind for another lesson from him.
The man was short and fat, and greasy above the dark beard line. In addition, he was bowlegged as a greyhound, and just now he moved with a limp as though very footsore. His coarse blue flannel shirt, open at the throat, exposed a broad hairy chest that rose and fell mightily with the effort he was making. And therein lay the mystery.
He was hungry for the fleshpots of Malapi. If they dropped in late at night, stayed a few hours, and kept under cover, they could probably slip out of town undetected. The recklessness of his nature found an appeal in the danger. "Damfidon't trail along, Dug." "Yore say-so about that." "Like to see my own picture on the poles. Sawed-off li'l runt. Straight black hair. Some bowlegged.
I had no particular fancy for tailoring you get bowlegged in time!" the old spirit was fighting with the new "but here you were at work, and there I was idle, and I had been ill, and some one who wasn't responsible for me a stranger-worked for me and cared for me. Wasn't it natural, when you were playing the devil with yourself, that I should step in and give you a hand?
Buddy gave him one preoccupied glance and started for the cabin, walking with the cowpuncher's peculiar, bowlegged gait which comes of wearing chaps and throwing out the knees to overcome the stiffness of the leather. At thirteen Buddy was a cowboy from hat-crown to spurs-and at thirteen Buddy gloried in the fact. To-day, however, his mind was weighted with matters of more importance than himself.
Hair mouse-colored, thinning out over forehead, parted in middle, showing scalp beneath; mustache would be lighter than hair if not dyed; usually clipped to about an inch. Waxy complexion, light blue eyes a little close together, thin nose, a prominent dimple on left cheek may wear whiskers. Laughs in low key. Left ear lobe broken. Slightly bowlegged. While in conversation strokes chin.
"Bald?" "Yes." "With sunken eyes?" "I think he has." "Restless, stooping, and bowlegged?" "In truth, you draw Master Boxtel's portrait feature by feature." "And the tulip, sir? Is it not in a pot of white and blue earthenware, with yellowish flowers in a basket on three sides?" "Oh, as to that I am not quite sure; I looked more at the flower than at the pot."
"Oh, I'll stay," agreed the crestfallen youth. Maloney met them in front of the Jack of Hearts. "Dick, you go with me inside. Uncle Alec, will you keep guard outside?" "No, bub, I won't. I knew Luck before you were walking bowlegged," the old cattleman answered brusquely. Curly grinned. "All right. Don't blame me if you get shot up." Mrs.
In his despairing confusion, he sat down on the little bowlegged sofa and looked at her; Lily, sitting beside him, put her hand on his which quivered at the touch. "Don't you worry! I'd never play you any mean trick. You treated me good, and I'll never treat you mean; I 'ain't forgot the way you handed it out to Batty! I'll never let on to anybody.
So Mike left his story in the middle and went off to the water jug under a stubby cedar, walking bowlegged and swinging his arms limply, palms turned backward, and muttering to himself as he went. "A-ah, there goes a liar if ever there was one him and his crooked sthick!" Murphy brought out a plug of tobacco the length of his hand and pried off a corner with his teeth.
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