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He was a branded man before, but now, so long as he remained in Barnriff, or wherever he met a man who had lived in Barnriff at this time, so long as Will escaped capture, the pointing finger would be able to mark honest Jim Thorpe as a cattle-thief. He was powerless to do more than deny it. The horror of it was dreadful. He had done it for her. And her woman's heart told her why.
For, let it be known, the honour and pride of each ranger company is the individual bravery of its members. For two months the border was quiet. The rangers lolled, listless, in camp. And then bringing joy to the rusting guardians of the frontier Sebastiano Saldar, an eminent Mexican desperado and cattle-thief, crossed the Rio Grande with his gang and began to lay waste the Texas side.
Will, I mean. Will's the cattle-thief. He found him in the midst of re-branding. And he came right in and told told Doc Crombie." In an instant Elia was sitting forward defending himself. "I didn't tell him who he was. Sure I didn't, 'cos you said I wouldn't get that gold if I did if I give him away. I didn't give him away, sure sure. I jest told Doc where he'd find the rustlers. That's all.
Springer, of course, was much too sharp to tell how he came to be an inmate of the jail, and the boss cattle-thief, believing that he had been arrested while trying to carry out his instructions, treated him with the greatest consideration.
He need not have been so particular on this point, however, for the cattle-thief knew as much about the contemplated movements of General Ord's forces as George did himself.
He is a cattle-thief, a train-robber, a murderer, and a spy. I should not tell you this if you were not game to the last drop of your blood. But I think I know you better than you know yourself, though you never saw me until last night.
The cattle-thief remained in jail until the next full moon, and then Fletcher and his men suddenly made their appearance, just as Springer said they would. As no precautions had been taken to guard the prison, the raiders had an easy victory, and before assistance could arrive from the Pass, Springer and the murderers of the cowboy had been released and Fletcher was safe across the river.
Explanations and a broken harness strap mingled painfully in Buddy's memory for a long time afterwards, but the full effect of the beating was lost because Buddy happened to hear Bob Birnie confide to mother that the lad had served the old cattle-thief right, and that any man who could start with one thoroughbred cow and in four years have sufficient increase from that cow to produce eight calves a season, ought to lose them all.
"Of course he would not work against us directly, but he might work for himself in this crisis. It would furnish him with a good opportunity, you see. It would give him plenty of cover." "Yes, that is true, but still I somehow cannot help liking the chap." "Liking the chap?" echoed the Superintendent. "He is a cold-blooded villain and cattle-thief, a murderer, as you know.
A murmur applauded him from Doc Crombie's direction, and even Smallbones was silenced for the moment. Peter went on. "See here, I'm known to everybody. I'm known in most places where the grass of the prairie grows, and my name's mostly good. Well, I want to say right here, on my oath, Jim Thorpe's no cattle-thief, and, as God is my judge, I know that to be true.
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