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Updated: June 16, 2025
If you don't leave, I'll throw you off!" Red Jim flashed about under the shade of the arch. "Come get me, and be damned," he said. And then he was gone. The cowpunchers, furious at this open defiance of them all, boiled out into the patio, growling. "You see?" said Hervey to the girl. "He won't be satisfied till there's a killing!" "Keep them back!" she pleaded. "Don't let them go, Mr. Hervey.
"'Well, you didn't win, did you? says Gallager. "'Um, um, says Sam, lookin' at th' twig. "'Then th' twig's no good, is it? asks Gallager, lookin' Sam firmly in th' eye, an' Sam returnin' th' look. "'NO! says Sam, an' he throws th' twig away." The cowpunchers did not believe this story. They did not think that an Indian can be cured of his medicine. But I know it is true, for I knew the Indian.
The rush of her entrance in the dark startled the nervous horse, and she had to soothe it for a minute or more with a voice broken by excitement. After that, there was the saddling to be done and her fingers stumbled and stuttered over the straps so that when at last she led the bay out and swung up to the saddle there was no sound or sight of the cowpunchers.
Andy's loop sank neatly over it a second later, and the two wheeled and dashed away together, with Pink and Irish duplicating their performance at the other end of the tent. The dingy, smoke-stained canvas swayed, toppled, as the pegs gave way, and finally lay flat upon the prairie fifty feet from where it had stood, leaving the inmates exposed to the cruel stare of eight unfriendly cowpunchers.
He turned in his saddle and laughingly asked her: "How much time could your cowpunchers afford to devote to the Muses, Miss Grace?" "Genius knows no paltry restrictions of time and place," she said, with some acerbity, "and I know of at least one of the men you mention who has the ability if not the courage." He winced a little at that and the cloud of suspicion grew denser.
She swept the forms of the cowpunchers with one of those all-embracing glances of which few great men and all excited women are capable. Yes, old age would capture Alcatraz before such men as these. For this trail there was needed a spirit as much superior to other men in tireless endurance and in speed as Alcatraz was superior to other horses.
"That grey is fast as a streak but look! look!" For the red-chestnut was bounding away in pursuit of his last companion with a winged gallop. It seemed that the wind caught him up and buoyed him from stride to stride, and the cowpunchers with hungry, burning eyes watched without a word until the grey and the chestnut blurred on the horizon and dipped out of view together.
Half the bad men are only coltish cowpunchers gone wrong through rotten whiskey and luck breaking bad for them." "Is Soapy that kind?" she asked, but not because she did not know the answer. "He's the other kind, bad at the heart. But Curly was just a kid crazy with the heat when he made that fool play of rustling horses." A lad made his way to them with a note. Kate read it and turned to Dick.
Besides, he's a killer. That's his job. So is Sinclair a killer. Maybe he did fight Quade square, but Quade ain't the only one. Why, boys, this Sinclair has got a record as long as my arm." In silence they sat around the table, each man thinking hard. The professional gunman gets scant sympathy from ordinary cowpunchers.
Still trudge the prairie schooners; cowpunchers in chaps still stand at the doors of log cabins when they are tired of playing the automatic piano; and blanket Indians, Blackfeet and Crows, stare at five-story buildings when they are not driving modern reapers on their farms. They all waved to Claire.
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