Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 31, 2025
We had a good lunch at Shepherd's Inn, and then ran home in time for dinner. We came by Calabasas, and just before we reached the Cahuenga Pass we turned off and went through Lankershim on our way to Alhambra. We all remarked that in no section of the state we had visited did the trees look as healthy, the alfalfa as luxuriant, the garden truck as vigorous, as they did at Lankershim.
De Spain arranged his business to wait at Calabasas for her, and was there, after two days, doing little but waiting and listening to McAlpin's stories about the fire and surmises as to strange men that lurked in and about the place. But de Spain, knowing Jeffries was making an independent investigation into the affair, gave no heed to McAlpin's suspicions.
No such defiance of the traditions of the Morgan rule along the reaches of the Spanish Sinks had been attempted in years and it was recalled more than once, when de Spain's feat was discussed at the ranches, on the trails, and in the haunts of gunmen in Calabasas, that no one of those who had ever braved the wrath of the Sink rulers had lived indefinitely to boast of it.
It could not be far, he knew, from the junction of the two great desert trails the Calabasas road and the Gap road. He felt sure Nan could not have got much north of this, for he had ridden in desperation to get abreast of or beyond her, and if she were south, where, he asked, in the name of God, could she be?
"McAlpin has a wife and children to support," suggested de Spain. "Don't think for a moment he does it," returned Lefever vehemently. "I support his wife and children, myself." "You shouldn't play cards, John." "It was by playing cards that I located Sassoon, just the same. And say, that man blew into Calabasas one day here lately with a twenty-dollar bill; it's a fact.
In their gropings through the blizzard the three had wandered nearer Calabasas than any one of them dreamed. And on the open desert, far south and east of the upper lava beds, it was Scott's horse that put a foot through the bottom of the overturned wagon box. The suspected mound of snow, with the buried horses scrambling to their feet, rose upright at the crash.
A second surgeon was brought from Medicine Bend, and heroic efforts were put forth to nurse again into life the feeble spark the assassin had left in the unlucky guard. Word of this cutting reached de Spain at Thief River. He started for Calabasas, learned there during a brief stop what he could which was, of course, next to nothing of the affray, and posted on to Sleepy Cat.
He rode the Gap trail from Sleepy Cat again and again for miles and miles in the effort to encounter her. He came to know every ridge and hollow on it, every patch and stone between the lava beds and the Rat River. Killing time in this way, after a fruitless ride, his persistence was one day most unexpectedly rewarded at the Calabasas barns.
A man that went through that ten minutes at Calabasas would naturally think a good deal about what he is getting out of his job, and what his future chances are for being promoted any minute, day or night, by a forty-five." "Perhaps his salary had better be raised," conceded Jeffries reflectively.
Her companion scolded her for stirring up talk that might make trouble; averred she didn't believe half the stories she heard; asserted that these men lived quietly at Calabasas, minding their own affairs. "And they're kind to poor folks, too." "Sure," grimaced the obdurate one, "with other people's money." De Spain had no difficulty in placing the two women.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking