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Gail here wants to know what is coming next, and Mat wants a share in our councils. What do you want, Beverly?" "I want to practise shooting on horseback. I can hit a mark now standing still. I want to do it on the run," Beverly replied. I can see now the earnest look in Esmond Clarenden's eyes as he listened.
He turned left and made for the Clarenden's famous Chinese lounging room, which in turn opened into the main restaurant.
Esmond Clarenden's voice was deep and powerful now, filling the old church with its vehemence. Up by the altar, the little girl sat up suddenly and looked about her, terrified by the dim light and the strange faces there. "Don't be afraid, Eloise." How strangely changed was this gentle tone from the vehement voice of a moment ago. The little girl sprang up and stared hard at the speaker.
Louis and Kansas City men of Esmond Clarenden's type were sending out great caravans of goods and receiving return cargoes across the plains pioneer trade-builders, uncrowned sovereigns of national expansion against whose enduring power wars for conquest are as flashlight to daylight.
At Santan's words he paused and, flinging back the hair from his forehead, he caught his breath and his better self in the same heart-beat. And the instinct of the gentleman he was Esmond Clarenden's brother's son held the destroying hand. "You aimed at me! Well, learn your lesson on that right now. Promise never to play the fool that way again.
He's bigger than Bev, too," I declared, proudly. "Gail Clarenden, are you crazy?" Uncle Esmond exclaimed. "No, I'm not," I insisted, and then I told what had happened at the church, adding, "I saw Marcos with that man in the Plaza, and they went away together." Esmond Clarenden's face grew grave. "What kind of a looking child was she, Gail?" he asked, after a pause.
But in my dreams sometimes my other life returned to me, and a sweet face, with a cloud of golden hair, and dark eyes looking into mine, came like a benediction to me. Another face came sometimes now black, big, and glistening, with eyes of strange, far vision looking at me, and I heard, over and over, the words of Esmond Clarenden's cook: "If you get into trouble, Mr.
"And let the Cheyennes, and Kiowas, and Arapahoes, and other desperadoes of the plains gnaw clear into the heart of us? Not your uncle Esmond Clarenden's nephew. And, Gail, this won't be anything like we have had since those six Kiowas staked you out on Pawnee Rock once. The thoroughbred Indians are bad enough, but there is a half-breed leader of a band of Dog Indians that's worst of all.
A stricken woman listed with the dead, whose memory might have come again God knows if but the loving touch of childish hands had long ago been on her hands. It is years too late for all that now. A brave young ward rescued from your direct control by Esmond Clarenden's force of will and daring to do the right.
But Jondo had not slept, and his face was sterner than ever as the duties of the day began. Before sunrise I began to be missed. "Where's Gail?" Bill Banney was the first to ask. "That's Clarenden's job, not mine," another of the bull-whackers resented a command of Jondo's. "Gail! Gail! Anybody on earth seen Gail Clarenden this morning?" came from a far corner of the camp.
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