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Updated: May 2, 2025
'The Baggage Car in Front! T'adora Mora! God bless 'er!" During the rendition of this affecting ballad the two cow-men remained draped uncomfortably over the barbed-wire barrier, lost in rapturous enjoyment. When the last note had died away, Stover roused himself reluctantly. "It's time we was turnin' in." He called softly, "Hey, Mex!" "Si, Senor!" "Come on, you and Cloudy. Vamos!
But along the sidewalk where the electric-lighted bar-rooms buzzed and hummed, brawny cow-men, booted and spurred, lounged about, talking in that odd but not unpleasant Western English that could almost be called a dialect. But it was not the Benton of the cow-men that I felt about me.
Over in the Sulphur Springs valley and the San Simon John Ringo nursed his grudge against the sheriff for having disarmed him when his guns were so sorely needed; he cherished that unpleasant memory while he directed the movements of Curly Bill and their followers, while he rode forth from Galeyville with them to raid the herds of border cow-men, or to ambush bands of Mexican smugglers, or to rob the stages.
Time and again he made the journey until the cow-men in the lowlands came to know his face well; until the sight of a deputy sheriff's star was no longer an unwonted spectacle in Galeyville. And as the months went by he enlarged the list of his acquaintances among the outlaws. But his errands were for the most part concerned with civil matters.
His hat was a Derby of the newest shape; and the cow-men beyond the range are impatient of such head-gear.
The woman and girl started toward them. Fascinated, the cow-men watched them approach. "My Gawd!" Old Heck hoarsely whispered, "that's them!" "Let's go!" Skinny exclaimed, sweat starting in unheeded beads on his forehead. "Good lord, let's get in the car and go while we got a chance!" Old Heck made a move as if to comply, then stopped. "Can't now," he said gloomily, "it's too late!"
And when he came to Charleston he announced that so far as he was concerned the incident was closed; he was going to do his cattle-rustling henceforth over San Simon way where cow-men did not maintain rear-guards and scout out the country ahead of them for enemies. He changed his base of operations to Galeyville within a month and came to Charleston for pleasure only.
He had come to them out of the Nowhere, some four years previously, and while he never spoke of himself, and discouraged reminiscence in others, it became known through those vague uncharted channels by which news travels on the frontier, that back in the Texas Panhandle there was a limping marshal who felt regrets at mention of his name, and that farther north were other men who had a superstitious dread of undersized cow-men with spectacles.
I understood you weren't satisfied, and wanted to to leave." "Who told you that?" "Why Tex. Isn't it " Buck frowned, and then, conscious of the watching McCabe, his face cleared and he laughed. "He must have got me wrong, Miss Ma er Thorne," he returned lightly. "Perhaps he's heard me grumbling a bit; cow-men do that from force of habit sometimes, you know.
It was no great matter to fight Indians, that they had done many times and found more or less enjoyment in it; but there was a vast difference between brave and puncher, and the chances of their salvation became very small. They surmised that it was the work of the cow-men on whom they had preyed and that vengeful punchers lay hidden behind that death-fringe of green willow and hazel.
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