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Dale did not believe, now, that the man who had interfered to save Nyland was Will Bransford. Dale rode slowly homeward, scowling, inwardly fuming with rage, but unable to form any decided plan of action. It was several miles to the Bar D, Dale's ranch, and when he arrived there he was in an ugly mood. He curtly dismissed the two men who had accompanied him and went into the house.
"Now we'll give him Will Bransford's signature just as he used to write it. I've seen it more times than any other man ever saw it, and I can duplicate it to a flourish. Give me the paper!" He sat down at a table, where there was a pen and a bottle of ink and wrote boldly: "Will Bransford." With a grin he passed the paper back.
But they all have had good appetites," she told him, shaking a finger at him. "And if you don't eat heartily I shall believe your long absence from home has taken some of the Bransford out of you!" She pulled a chair out for aim, and took another at the table opposite him. Sanderson ate; there was no way out of it, though he felt awkward and uncomfortable.
Bransford, widow of Mr. H.W. Bransford, Commander and Mrs. James H. Oliver, U.S.N., and Miss Susy Carter. Mrs. Bransford and Mrs. Oliver are the daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Randolph Carter, and are the present owners of the plantation, Mrs. Bransford making her home there. Commander Oliver represents the third consecutive generation of naval officers in the Shirley family.
Apparently he was willing to forgive and forget, for he grinned at Owen, who was watching him from the door of the bunkhouse, and he politely doffed his hat to Mary Bransford, who met him at the door of the ranchhouse. "Well, Miss Mary," he said, "how does it feel to have a brother again?" "It's rather satisfying, Dale," smiled the girl. "Won't you get off your horse?"
"They've got a man ready to come on here to impersonate Bransford. They would prove his claim and after he was established he would sell out to them. They have forged papers showing that Mary is an adopted daughter though not legally. Don't you see that if you don't go on letting everybody think you are Bransford, Mary will lose the ranch?" Sanderson shook his head.
Then he disarmed the others, one after another, throwing the weapons near where he had thrown Dale's. He heard Owen tell Mary Bransford to get them, and he saw Mary gathering them up and taking them into the house. Sanderson made his search of the men thorough, for he had caught the spirit of the thing.
Says I can't drink any more booze. He's running the Double A, Bransford is. There's a lot I could tell you about Bransford a whole lot! He ain't " His maudlin talk broke off short, for Sanderson had stepped to his side and placed a hand over his mouth. Owen struggled, broke away, and shouted: "Damn you, let me alone! I'm going to tell these people who you are. You're " Again his talk was stilled.
"And he can dam the stream as much as he pleases, providing he don't cut down the supply that normally flows to his neighbors; and the gorge doesn't supply any water to the basin, so that Bransford would be justified in directing the gorge stream. "In other words, old Bransford's title to the land that the gorge runs through is unassailable.
Not until he had written to Bransford, and received a reply, did he acquaint Burroughs with his decision to leave. As a matter of fact, Sanderson had delayed his leave-taking for more than a month after receiving Bransford's letter, being reluctant, now that his opportunity had come, to sever those relations that, he now realized, had been decidedly pleasant.
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