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Never saw hide ner hair of 'em afterward." "I've heard that he and Bill Lacy were in cahoots." "Likely enough; ain't much Lacy ain't into. He's been sellin' a pile of cattle over at Taylorsville lately, an' likely most of 'em was stole. But hell! What can I do? Besides, that's the sheriff's job, ain't it? What yer goin' in to see him about, Jim?" "Only to ask a few questions."
"I have no time now to go into those details. My business is more pressing, sir." "You're in cahoots with a mob! I saw you operating, with my own eyes, under my own roof," asserted Senator Corson, violently. "I have no time for discussing that matter." Morrison looked up at the clock on the wall. "This other business, I assert, is urgent."
But whatever it is, it's gotta do with the country round Farewell with the ranches on the Lazy. Aw right. Besides Dale's and Morgan's there's three ranches, ain't they, on the Lazy near Farewell?" Racey Dawson held up three fingers, doubling a thumb and forefinger behind them. "Three ranches," he continued, "and the manager of one is in cahoots with this Harpe of many strings."
It suit him faw a reason known on'y to yo's truly, yit which the said yo's truly would accede to transfawm to you, seh; yass, seh; in considerations o' us goin' in cahoots, aw else a call loan, an' yit mo' stric'ly a call-ag'in loan, a sawt o' continial fee, yass, seh; an' the on'y question, now much kin you make it?"
"You just bet your life I do! It's that crook of a Yellow Barbee, in cahoots with that crook of a Blenham who's taking orders from that crook of an old Hell-Fire Packard! Can't you see their play?" "I rather think I can. But I don't happen to be as positive about the unknown as you do." "You're just a man," said Terry. "That's why.
And again he laughed. "A cute trick, shore. That's what we got for bein' so plumb crooked ourselves. Why, o' course it was the queen, once. You see 'twas this way. That she-male and the capper in cahoots with her tolled you on straight for Montoyo's table; teased you a leetle along the trail, no doubt, to keep you interested." I nodded. "They promised you winnin's, easy winnin's.
I went out and got him some medicine guaranteed, by the doctor who wrote the prescription, to take the hoot out of the hootch Casey had swallowed. That afternoon Casey left off glaring at me, sat up, accepted a cigarette and consented to talk. " an' all I got to say is, Barney Oakes is a liar an' the father uh liars. I never was in cahoots with him at no time.
"So he works us for suckers, worms in here with us where he can learn all about you and your holdings; ropes a job with you, and gets off his report to that engineer Blake, first time he rides over to town." "Is that all your argument?" asked Knowles. "Ain't it enough?" rejoined Gowan. "Ain't he and that bunch all in cahoots together?
"If it was some one else, that some one else must have been in cahoots with Rabig and agreed to make him seem to be in his bunk. I'd hate to think that there was more than one traitor in the regiment. "One's more than enough," agreed Bart. "What do you think we ought to do about it?" asked Billy. "I don't know," replied Frank, with a worried look on his face.
But "Cahoots," who or what was he? My interest, not to say curiosity, was aroused. There must be a whole story in those two shafts with their simple inscriptions, a life-drama or perhaps a tragedy. And who was more likely to know it than the postmaster of the quaint little old town.
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