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Shuddering, she sank to her knees, one hand reached out to touch Marylyn. "Maybe Charley'll come, honey," she whispered hopefully. "Maybe, maybe!" And now it seemed as if she heard something outside. She crept to the door. Around the latch was a little space. She put her ear to it, and the icy air blew against her cheek. There it was again! The shriek of the gale. She went back to the bed.
"Talkin' soldier, when y' know Matthews could buy th' hull kit an' boodle with a swig o' whisky!" He arraigned the Fort with a crutch. "What do you think of doing, dad?" "Ah'll fin' out where thet cuss was las' night Charley'll help me, y' see " "And then?" "Ah'll see thet thet Oliver knows o' this, thet he keeps a' eye on thet dog-goned "
"You take Mar'lyn," he insisted, "an' th' pistol. Ah c'n git along fine by myself. Charley'll be comin', an' Ah'll hang on t' him. Ah reckon, between us, we'll be O. K. 'Sides, y' know, Ah got a weasel's tail." The mention of Charley won Dallas to her father's view. He would not be alone all day, for the outcast would surely appear.
"Charley'll find a trail, if he hasn't broken his fool neck," Kars said. "Guess he'd find a trail in a desert of sand that's always shifting. This darn gorge must be scored with them. If he don't, why, I guess we'll need to chance it up-stream past those workings." "Yes." Bill sat on the boulder Charley had used as a mooring. He had had his sleep, but a certain weariness still remained.
You've lived outside the law such a long spell I don't guess you need teaching a thing. If we're acting outside the laws of man now, I guess we're acting within the laws of justice. That's all that gets me where you figger. I guess we'll eat. Charley'll know how to hand you your food." The prisoner made no reply. It was the final blow. Kars had withheld it till the psychological moment.
Rachael was coming back to the normal. "She needs things for camp, and I've got a little shopping to do." "Then could you lunch with Mother? Little Charley'll be there: no one else. Bring Billy. Mother'd love it. You're a great favorite there, you know." "I may not always be a favorite there," Rachael said with a rueful smile.
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