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The fool must have been drunk." "You'll have to excuse him. It was beginning to get dark. His intentions were good." There was a quick light step behind him, and Arlie came into the room. She glanced quickly from one to the other, and there was apprehension in her look. "I've come to see Lieutenant Fraser on business," Briscoe explained, with an air patently triumphant.
Briscoe nodded and rose at once. As he reached the door, Minnie said in a piercing whisper: "It's hard to be sure about her, but I'm right; it's gratitude." "There," he replied, chuckling, "I thought I shouldn't have the last word." Minnie began to sing, and the judge, after standing in the doorway till he was again summoned from within, slowly retired.
The men ceased thrusting at the tree-trunks as soon as Briscoe had given the word, and by slow degrees the boat came to a stand, and then began to float back in the opposite direction to that in which they had been forcing it. "Why, we're going wrong," cried one of the men excitedly, springing up. "Well, never you mind," said the American sharply. "Just you sit down and wait for orders.
They heard him cursing at his horse as he mounted. The cruel swish of a quirt came to them, after which the swift pounding of a horse's hoofs. The cow pony had found its gallop in a stride. The Texan laughed lightly. "Exit Mr. Briscoe, some disappointed," he murmured. He noticed that none of the others shared his mirth. Briscoe did not return at once to the scene of the round-up.
"Yo'll have company home, honey," he told his daughter, "and yo'll be able to give the boys a hand if they need it. These hill cattle are still some wild, though we've been working them a week. Yo're a heap better cowboy than some that works more steady at the business." Briscoe nodded. "You bet! I ain't forgot that day Arlie rode Big Timber with me two years ago.
"That'll be enough from you, Briscoe. I've stood about all I'm going to stand just now." "You'll stand for whatever I say," retorted Jed. "You've cooked your goose in this valley by to-night's fool play. I'm the only man that can pull you through. Bite on that fact, Mr. Struve, before you unload your bile on me." The convict's heart sank. He felt it to be the truth.
But no! Fairy-foot was a handful, even for so capital a whip as Briscoe. He obviously considered that the boy would be more secure stowed on the floor of the vehicle, half under the soft rug, and braced by the firm foot planted on either side against the dash-board. "How considerate!" the watching mother thought with a glow of gratitude, noting the caution.
They discussed this as they sat in the spacious reception hall, and had Bayne been less preoccupied he must have noticed at once the embarrassment, nay, the look of absolute dismay, with which Briscoe had risen to receive him, when, unannounced, he appeared in the doorway as abruptly as if he had fallen from the clouds.
In this, the solitary romance of his life, Ralph Briscoe overtopped even his own achievements of courage. The Roaring Girl was no more young, and years had not refined her character unto gentleness. It was still her habit to appear publicly in jerkin and galligaskins, to smoke tobacco in contempt of her sex, and to fight her enemies with a very fury of insolence.
"They deceived me, captain," said Briscoe. "So they did me, sir, at the first squint. I thought we were in for a scrimmage, and that before long I should be cutting up sticking-plaster and putting it on. Two fine old sticks of timber those, squire, and they must have come down some fierce falls to be stripped of their boughs like that.
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