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Updated: June 27, 2025
He recalled that Elsie had said something about mavericking and brand-blotting by the Apaches. Unless Farley and the girls were conniving with Cochise, the Indian could not be carrying on any work in the Hole unknown to Slade, and he had just intimated that brand-blotting was some kind of harmful or criminal action. At the supper table Slade returned to his jovial praises of Elsie as a cook.
For though the net of the round-up had gathered hundreds of stolen cattle and most of those engaged in the business of brand-blotting, Prince knew his job would not be finished if Roush and Albeen escaped. He quartered over the ground foot by foot. The camp of the rustlers had been here and the footsteps showed there had been three. Yankie was accounted for. That left Roush and Albeen.
"First to make Dad believe the brand-blotting was a part of his honest cattle business, and then " "What's that?" interrupted Lennon. "You mean he deceived your father? I did not understand it that way." "Yes. He lied. Dad was an Easterner like yourself. Slade had him incriminated before he knew it was stock stealing. Then he forced tizwin making upon us. You know the consequences to poor Dad.
Carmena answered his unspoken question: "They're brand-blotting the last bunch of cattle brought into the Hole." "Brand-blotting?" "Yes. You wouldn't care to see it especially when Cochise takes part." Elsie uttered a smothered little gasp that quickened again all of Lennon's repressed tenderness and compassion. He looked around, trying to think of some means to divert her.
"So you think a man as big as Slade is stupid enough to try his hand at brand-blotting on all sides at once?" she asked. "No; nor even once on one side," he returned. "Not him. The one fact that the similarity of brands would make it easy to fall into the habit is enough to keep every outfit watching him. He couldn't start and knows it." "Then what does it all amount to?" she asked.
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