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Updated: May 15, 2025
"I will not stop at anything now. If I tell the cattlemen what I know they will go wild. I mean what I say, believe me!" "I know you will not stop at anything. I have seen that," Helen admitted. "A woman who can do what you've already done...." "Helen!"
"What are you out here for, anyway?" Jim glanced from the doctor to Smallbones, and then on at the rest of the men. They were all cattlemen, none of them were villagers. He laughed suddenly. "Say, is this an er inquisition?" "Sure." The doctor's reply rapped out tartly. "Well, that being the way of things, guess I'd best tell you first as last.
"If it was over yonder," he added, referring to a point of the compass almost opposite, "I would believe the boy fired the gun and had come in collision with some more of the scamps that are so plenty to-night, but he can't be over there, because that would lead him further from the camp of the cattlemen."
And his words had the effect of startling the other. "But I don't see " "They're rustlers. Ther's their tracks clear as day. This is their hiding. Wal, I guess there's jest one thing to be done. It's our duty to track 'em down. Our duty to the cattle world, Jeff, boy." "But what about Ronald?" Bud looked him squarely in the eyes. "We're cattlemen first, Jeff. The other'll come later."
If you know anything at all about cattlemen, you will know that the Quirt was a poor man's ranch, when I tell you that Hunter and Johnson milked three cows and made butter, fed a few pigs on the skim milk and the alfalfa stalks which the saddle horses and the cows disdained to eat, kept a flock of chickens, and sold what butter, eggs and pork they did not need for themselves.
This he felt Colonel Landcraft to be, measured against his own strength and importance in that country. Himself and the other two big cattlemen in that section of the state lorded it over an area greater than two or three of the old states where the slipping heritage of individual liberty was born. Now here was a colonel in his way; one little old gray colonel!
They were not cowards, nor was he, but he had had too much experience with such people to be deluded into believing that, when the showdown came, they would think of anything but their own precious skins. He had heard rumors of the activity of the cattlemen but he discounted such rumors because of many false alarms in the past.
A volley from the cattlemen penetrated the walls of the house. Whitey trembled for Injun, out there in No Man's Land. He need not have trembled, for that young person was safely crouching behind a boulder. For the first time Whitey noticed that a breeze was stirring.
They were to be shipped safely back to their place, where they would disperse, and walk free of all prosecution afterwards. For that one service to the cattlemen Major King could scarcely hope to win his coveted reward. She believed that Alan Macdonald would die. It seemed that the fever which would consume his feeble hope of life was already kindling on his lips.
Swarms of cattlemen filled the hotel, but they were mainly from Texas and Oklahoma, and no familiar face met his searching eyes. He was now so desperately homesick that he meditated striking one of these prosperous-looking fellows for a pass back to the cattle country. But each time his pride stood in the way.
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