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"If you'd open a bar here you'd do some business and run that Wyker fellow out. Steward, you and Jacobs are too danged satisfied with yourselves. We need some business spirit in this town if we want to get the county seat here," Champers declared.
"Danged if I ain't left that Pete-horse's blanket down at the Y.D.," he exclaimed. "Oh, well, you can easily ride back for it and catch up on us this afternoon," said Linder, who was not in the least deceived. "Thanks, Lin," said Drazk. "I'll beat it down an' catch up on you this afternoon, sure," and he was off down the trail as fast as "that Pete-horse" could carry him.
Applehead, smarting under the sarcasm, came ready for war, and Luck turned the crank until the sheriff was almost within reach of him. "Gol darn you, Luck, I'll take that there camery and bust it over your danged head!" he spluttered. "I'll show ye! Call me a bum that's wearin' a shurf's star fer the first time in his life, will ye! Why, I'll jest about wear ye out if "
"How's your alfalfa doin'?" Champers asked as he turned toward the level stretch of rich green alfalfa fields. "Danged money-maker for you," he added jovially. "We'll clear the place with the first cutting this year. It's just the thing for Uncle Jim," Leigh asserted. "Yep, Jim's in clover alfalfa, ruther.
They say that I am much too young to be entrusted with the responsibility of heading such an adventure." "Too young be danged!" exclaimed Radlett with energy. "They don't know 'e as well as I do, Garge, or they wouldn't talk like thicky.
"Ah, when I and my wife were married at Norcombe Church," said the old maltster, not pleased at finding himself left out of the subject, "we were called the handsomest couple in the neighbourhood everybody said so." "Danged if ye bain't altered now, malter," said a voice with the vigour natural to the enunciation of a remarkably evident truism.
I've done men to keep 'em from doin' me, or jest 'cause they was danged easy, but I never wronged no woman, not even my wife, who divorced me years ago back East 'cause I wouldn't turn my old mother out o' doors, but kep' her and provided for her long as she lived." Nobody in Kansas had ever heard Darley Champers mention his home relations before.
Wykerton, shut in by the broken country about Big Wolf Creek, was more uncomfortable than the open prairie. And especially was it uncomfortable in the "blind tiger" of the Wyker eating-house. Today the men of the old firm of Champers & Co. were again holding a meeting in this little room that could have told of much lawless plotting if walls could only tell. "It's danged hot in here, Wyker.
He says I've done first- rate, and if I go on, he'll run me up to thirty." "Well, I'm danged glad of it, lad, that I am!" Hutchinson gave in handsomely. "You put backbone into it." Little Ann stood near, smiling. Her smile met Tembarom's. "I know you're glad, Little Ann," he said. "I'd never have got there but for you. It was up to me, after the way you started me."
The president paused and glanced at him mildly, but Rimrock had thrown down his stock. "No," he said, "you can take this Navajoa or I'll quit and go somewhere else. I wouldn't put up a single share of Tecolote if you'd give me your whole, danged bank." "Very well," said the president with a fleeting smile, "we'll accept your Navajoa. My secretary will arrange it but mind this is on a call loan!
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