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T'other had disappeared. You can guess how much time I lost getting back to camp. "'Kink, I says, 'we're a straddle of the raggedest proposition in this country. One of your dusters at this moment is jamming his cayuse through the horizon between here and the post. Pretty soon things is going to bust loose. 'Bout to-morrer evening we'll be eating hog-bosom on Uncle Sam. "'Well!
"Hold on!" shouted Ferris, murder in his eyes. "Don't you try that on me! I'll get one of you before I go; I'll shore get one! You can listen a minute, an' I can't get away." "All right; talk quick." Ferris pleaded as hard as he knew how and called attention to the condition of the prisoner. "If he did take the wrong cayuse he was too blind drunk to know it! Can't you see he was!" he cried.
Cribbens already owned and rode a buckskin cayuse that had to be knocked in the head and stunned before it could be saddled. "I got an extry saddle an' a headstall at the hotel that you can use," he said, "but you'll have to get a horse." In the end the dentist bought a mule at the livery stable for forty dollars.
Yu straddles that four-laigged cloudburst an' yu gets these, sabe? I ain't seen th' cayuse yet that yu couldn't freeze to, an' I'm backin' my opinions with my moral support an' one month's pay." By-and-by's eyes began to glitter as the meaning of the words sifted through his befuddled mind.
"None better. Ah, a jack!" "I say queen nope, king!" exulted the dispenser of liquids. "Say, mebby you can get a job around here when you quit the CG," he suggested. "That's a good idea," replied Fisher. "But let's finish this while we're at it. I got a good saddle outside on my cayuse go look it over an' tell me how much you'll put up agin it. If you win it an' can't use it, you can sell it.
"We didn't see that he was in trouble till one of the boys discovered you chasing his pony. Then we saw you rope the critter and pack the boss on your own cayuse." "Was was anybody killed?" asked Tad hesitatingly. "No. Mary got a bullet through the calf of his right leg, and Bat Coyne lost a piece of an ear. Guess that's about all." "Yes; but what of the others? Were any of the cowmen killed?"
The case, historical, but perhaps not unique, has never been widely known. As solemnly as doom itself, the council proceeded with its task. Some manner of balloting was adopted, and immediate members of the Cayuse totem drew lots as to which must perform the lawful deed. It fell to a brother of the prisoner a half-brother only, to be accurate, since the doomed man's father had been white.
Now, I'm owning up that the joke's on me, so you hand over my cayuse, an' I'll make up for lost time." Dave Wilkes' face expressed several things, but surprise was dominant. "Why, I ain't even seen yore ol' cayuse, you chump! Last time I saw it you was on him, going like the devil. Did somebody pull you off it an' take it away from you?" he demanded with great sarcasm. "Is somebody abusing you?"
The business of buying Glenmore's mine, he said, required unexpected dispatch. Perhaps both he and Glen might return by the end of the week. By that morning's train the body of Culver was shipped away and the camp began to forget him. The sheriff was after Cayuse.
"He can't do it in two not there an' back," he replied. "The trail is mud over the fetlocks. Give him three at the least." "They ain't shooting as much as they was before." "Waiting till they gets sober, I reckon," Johnny replied. "If we don't hear no ruction in a few minutes we'll know he got away all right," Barr soliloquized. "An' he's got a fine cayuse for mud, too."
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