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He took hold of her bridle to shove her horse out of the way so he could run, I reckon, and she switched him till he squirmed like a puppy-dog! I laughed till I nearly split when Saul told me!" Mrs. Chadron surrendered again to her keen appreciation of the humor in that situation.
Chadron had not left anybody to guard the house, because he knew very well that Macdonald considered nothing beyond defense, and that he would as quickly burn his own mother's roof above her head as he would set torch to that home by the riverside. "Sing us that dreamy one, Banjo," Nola requested, "the one that begins 'Come sit by my side little you know the one I mean."
It beats all how she's takin' up with them people, and them with her. She's even bought lumber with her own money to help some of 'em build." "She's got a heart like a dove," he sighed. "As soft as a puddin'," Mrs. Chadron nodded. "But I never could git to it." Banjo sighed again. Mrs. Chadron shook her head, with an expression of sadness for his failure which was deeper than any words she knew.
She was lifting her foot to the stirrup, thinly dressed as she was, her head bare, the rifle in her hand, when Frances took her by the arm. "You can't go alone with Alvino, Mrs. Chadron." "I've got to go, I tell you let loose of me!" She shook off Frances' restraining hand and turned to her horse again. With her hand on the pommel of the saddle she stopped, and turned to Alvino.
A loud and impatient summons sounded on the front door, drowning Chadron's words. He turned, with an oath, demanding to know who it was. Frances, still covering him with her steady hand, heard hurrying feet, the door open, and Mrs. Chadron exclaiming and calling for Saul. The man at the door had entered, and was jangling his spurs through the hall in hasty stride.
Chadron was soothing her daughter, who was incoherent in the joy of her delivery, holding her clasped in her arms. Beyond that bright head there was no world for that mother then; save for the words which she crooned in the child's ears there was no message in her soul.
"Troops have come in here to restore order, and order will be restored." Chadron was gaping in amazement. That feeling in him seemed to smother every other, even his hot rage against King for this sudden shifting of their plans and complete overthrow of the cattlemen's expectations of the troops.
If he stood against the forces which Chadron had gone to summon, he would be slain, and the abundant promise of his life wasted like water on the sand. "I'll go with you, Nola," she said, rising from the table in quick decision. "I've stood up for that man, and I've stood by him," said Banjo Gibson, "but when a man shoots a friend of my friend he ain't no friend of mine.
Chadron stood looking in the direction that the rider had gone with his precious burden, her eyes straining into the dark. "Oh, if I'd 'a' come down here place of saddlin' that horse!" she lamented, with a pang for her lost opportunity. "He'd have been gone, even then I was past here and didn't hear him," Frances said.
"I'm afraid you're starved, honey," she said, in genuine solicitude, thus expressing the nearest human sympathy out of her full-feeding soul. "I'm hungry, but far from starving," Frances told her, knowing that the confession to an appetite would please her hostess better than a gift. "When do you expect Mr. Chadron home?"
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