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It is to be feared that Valencia did not share in Dade's determination to keep the peace; for, before he slept, he promised himself that he would yet tell that pig-faced vaquero from Las Uvas what he thought of him. But outwardly the incident was closed, and closed permanently.
A man might as well put up his hands when he hears her coming huh? Unless he's absolutely woman-proof, like you. How do you manage it, anyway?" "By taking a squint at myself in the looking-glass every morning." Dade's face managed to wrinkle humorously. "H-m. You are pretty gorgeous, for a fact. Where's the riata?" Jack had forgotten that he had ever wanted one.
"Come, then, and I will reckon your wage," invited the don, coldly courteous as to a stranger. "You will excuse me, Señor? I shall not be long." Dade's impulse was to protest, to intercede, to say that he and Jack would go immediately, rather than stir up strife.
When he stepped off the porch, afterward, intending to go around the way he had come in order to enter the house, he heard a voice above him, and turned to see Dade, his head sticking out of an upstairs window, his hair in disorder, his eyes bulging, a forty-five gleaming in his hand. Back of him, his head over Dade's shoulder, stood Malcolm, and Bob's thin face showed between the two.
He would not have to dangle from that swinging rope, at any rate. "Hello, pard!" Dade's voice called thickly from close behind. "Looking for some rope?" Jack turned his head just as the looped rawhide slithered past him and settled taut over the head of the startled buckskin. Like a lightning gleam slashing through the dark he saw Dade's plan, and played his own part unhesitatingly.
"That's proper," laughed Dick Starbright, giving Inza an admiring glance. "Two much dignity robs the world of half its fun." Hodge and Morgan were the silent ones, but there was a light of eagerness in their eyes, and Dade's thin cheeks were flushed. The car entered the streets of Niagara, swung round a curve, slipped into a huge, covered building and stopped. "All out," called the conductor.
"I know I didn't say anything about running up against José but it wasn't anything beyond a few words; and, Dade, you've been almighty hard to talk to lately. If you've got anything against me " "Oh, quit it!" Dade's face glowed darkly with the blood which shame brought there. He opened his lips to say more, took a long breath instead, closed them, and looked at Jack queerly.
Behind the vines a girl's voice, speaking rapidly and softly with a laugh running all through the tones, hushed as suddenly as does a wild bird's twitter when strange steps approach. And just as suddenly did Dade's nostrils flare with the quick breath he drew; for tones, if one listens understandingly, may tell a great deal.
Hagan may be here any moment. Wouldn't have him see you for anything. Don't want him to know I've spoken to a soul since. That's right! Dig! You'll have to hurry." Starbright was somewhat bewildered, but he followed Dade's directions and hastened from the Iroquois. A few moments later Cavendale returned and announced that "Mr. Harrigan" would be right down.
Well, Jack had seen her, and Jack surely admired her; and the grim humor of Dade's plight struck through the ache and made him laugh, even though his jaws immediately went together with a click of teeth and cut the laugh short. He might have known but he was not the sort of man who stands guard against friend and foe alike.
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