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Judge Stillman gasped and backed against the desk, but McNamara idly swung his leg as he sat sidewise on the table. His only sign of interest was a quickening of the eyes, a fact of which Dextry made mental note.
"Oh, well, the world's round. There's a schooner outfittin' for Sibeery two years' cruise. Me an' Dex is figgerin' on gettin' out towards the frontier fer a spell." "Sure!" said Dextry. "I'm beginnin' to feel all cramped up hereabouts owin' to these fillymonarch orchestras an' French restarawnts and such discrepancies of scenery.
"Don't wonder! Why weren't you aboard sooner last night? I saw you 'most got left, eh? Served you right if you had." Then his voice dropped to the confidential: "I'd advise you to cut out those women. Don't misunderstand me, boy, but they're a bad lot on this boat. I saw you come aboard. Take my word for it they're a bad lot. Cut 'em out. Guess I'll step inside and see what's up with Dextry."
"All I want for myself," he said, "is the chance to run the big risk. It's mine by right." Dextry spoke, breathlessly, to Slapjack in the pause which ensued: "Ain't he a heller?" "We'll go you," the miners chimed to a man. And the chairman added: "Let's have Glenister lead this forlorn hope. I am willing to stand or fall on his judgment."
To wrest from reluctant earth her richest treasures, to add to the wealth of the world, to create here was satisfaction. "We ain't robbin' no widders an' orphans doin' it, neither," Dextry suddenly remarked, expressing his partner's feelings closely. They looked at each other and smiled with that rare understanding that exceeds words.
Look at the freight!" ejaculated Dextry. "If a storm come up it would bust the community!" The beach they neared was walled and crowded to the high-tide mark with ramparts of merchandise, while every incoming craft deposited its quota upon whatever vacant foot was close at hand, till bales, boxes, boilers, and baggage of all kinds were confusedly intermixed in the narrow space.
They made him recount his adventures to the tiniest detail, following his description of the fight with absorbed interest till Dextry broke into mournful complaint: "I'd have give my half of the Midas to see you bust him. Lord, I'd have screeched with soopreme delight at that." "Why didn't you gouge his eyes out when you had him crippled?" questioned Slapjack, vindictively. "I'd 'a' done it."
Application was made for orders directing the enforcement of the writs steps which would have restored possession of the Midas to its owners, as well as possession of the treasure in bank but Stillman refused to grant them. Wheaton called a meeting of the Swedes and their attorneys, advising a junction of forces. Dextry, who had returned from the mountains, was present.
He felt that he would never again lose mastery of himself, that his passions would never best him hereafter. Dextry spoke. "We had a meeting of the 'Stranglers' last night." He always spoke of the Vigilantes in that way, because of his early Western training. "What was done?"
His eyes narrowed, and the good- fellowship fell away, leaving him the stiff and formal officer. "Ah," he said, "not feeling well, eh? I thought I had met all of our lady passengers. Introduce me, Dextry." Dextry squirmed under his cynicism. "Well I ah didn't catch the name myself." "What?" "Oh, there ain't much to say. This is the lady we brought aboard last night that's all."
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