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He was smoking a cigar and looking at Thirkle. Behind them were piled the sacks of gold, close to a wide crack in the cliff, a sort of cañon, wide enough for a man to enter, and overgrown at the top with brush and green fronds, for the cliffside was wet and dripping, and veiled with mosses. "Got it in yer old skull that Bucky was a fool, hey?" said Buckrow, blowing a cloud of smoke at Thirkle.
"Mind ye, don't," growled Buckrow, who was still in an angry mood and perhaps thought he had made a mistake in giving Thirkle freedom again. "Oh, limber up a bit, Bucky," said Thirkle. "What's the use of us all going to Kingdom Come over a little fight, when we've had so much fighting to get this? The gold turned all our heads, no doubt, but we can't be fools through it.
He laughed it out flippantly, buoyantly, though it was on his mind to wonder whether the choleric little officer might not kill him out of hand for it. But Chaves merely folded his arms and looked sternly at the American with a manner very theatrical. "Miguel, disarm the prisoner," he ordered. "So I'm a prisoner," mused Bucky aloud. "And whyfor, lieutenant?"
No one would ever know why he was playing the game as he had planned to play it. Bucky would never know. Down at headquarters they would never know. And yet deep down in his heart he hoped and believed that Isobel would guess and understand. To save Deane, to save Isobel, he must keep them out of the hands of Bucky Smith, and to do that he must make them his own prisoners.
"And if in the meantime he should discover those rifles, or one of those slant-eyed senors should turn out a Benedict Arnold, what then, my friend?" "Don't talk in that cruel way. You make me neck ache in anticipation," returned O'Halloran blithely. "I think we'll not travel with you in public till after the election, Mr. O'Halloran," reflected Bucky aloud. "'Twould be just as well, me son.
"Six months' time in here'll have this stuff with whiskers on it like a Singapore tramp that hasn't been docked in a dog's age." "I say gold don't rust," persisted Petrak. "How about it, Thirkle? Does gold rust? I say it don't, and Bucky says it do." "You're right, Reddy, but don't quarrel now," said Thirkle. "It won't rust because gold doesn't rust."
Was it possible that these were people of his own kind? Had a madness of some sort driven all human instincts from them? He saw Thompson's red eyes fastened upon him, and he turned his face to escape their questioning, stupid leer. Bucky was turning out the can of beans he had won. Beyond him the door creaked, and Billy heard the wail of the storm. It came to him now as a friendly sort of sound.
Mebby the woman would have cheated me, but I had Hauck on the hip because I saw him kill a man when he was drunk a white man from Fort MacPherson. Helped him hide the body. And then oh, it was funny! I ran across Bucky! He was living in a shack a dozen miles from here, an' he didn't know Marge was the O'Doone baby.
"But if it was good enough for me and my pardner, here, I reckon it's good enough for them. Anyhow, we'll let them try it, won't we, Frank." "If you think best, Bucky." "You bet I do." "And what about the governor's daughter?" asked Gabilonda. "You don't say! Is she a guest of this tavern?"
It was not until the following summer that he learned the facts of Henry's madness, and of the terrible manner in which he avenged himself on Bucky Smith by sticking a knife under the latter's ribs. Billy now found himself in a position to measure the amount of energy contained in a slice of bacon and a cold biscuit. It was not much. Long before noon his old weakness was upon him again.
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