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" Ramerrez' band's everywhere," completed Ashby with a start, his quick and trained ear having caught the sound of horses' hoofs. "But if a road agent did come here, I could offer 'im a drink an' he'd treat me like a perfect lady," contended the Girl, confidently. "You bet he would, the durned old halibut!" was Sonora's comment, while Nick took occasion to ask the Girl for some tobacco.

He spent a great deal of his pocket money in buying cartridges for his revolver. He shot at everything which offered a taking mark, and became so expert that Dan bowed down before him, and Mrs. Pratt considered him dangerous. "It ain't natural fer to be so durned sure-pop on game," she said one day. "Doggone it, I'd want 'o miss 'em once in a while just fer to be aigged on fer to try again.

The damned dago told me " He stopped in confusion, with a scrape and a bow to the lady. "Sir, I demand an explanation of this most unwarrantable intrusion," spoke the ranger haughtily, in his best Spanish. A patter of soft foreign vowels flowed from the stranger's embarrassment. "You durned old hawss-stealing greaser, cayn't you talk English?" drawled the gipsy, with a grin.

He did not speak for some seconds, and when he did, it was to make a remark that was not understood. He said: "Well, I'll be durned!" His expression was not forbidding, and Roldan recovered himself at once. He stood up and bowed profoundly. "Senor," he said, "I beg that you will pardon us.

I brought it all the way from Nebraska with me, and if it's good for horses it ought to be good for prize fighters, too. That was surely a hefty chap who fought you. If you didn't have his pistol as proof I'd say that he gave you a durned good licking. Isn't this a pretty cut down the right cheek bone, George?" "Undoubtedly, but nothing can take away the glory of that left ear.

Tresler grabbed at the blanket and pulled it off his shoulders. "What's this?" he asked sharply. Joe looked up, his little eyes sparkling with resentment. "'Tain't yours, anyway," he said. Then he added with less anger, and some uncertainty, "Guess I slept some down at the bushes. Durned plug got busy 'stead o' waitin' around. The fool hoss ain't got no manners anyways." "Manners? Don't blither."

Ere he had more than seen the words, he was interrupted by Joe, who, glass in hand, left the bench and came to the rider, where, in a low voice, he said: "You see, squire, the independents has outsharped the other party, and got the thing passed before Howe got here. It was a durned smart trick, and don't leave either side nothing but to fight.

"It's cur'us that you git more o' them black pelts around here than anybody else higher up north. You're a sight better hunters than any durned neche on the Peace River. An' them hides is worth more'n five times their weight in gold. You're makin' a pile o' bills. Say, you keep them black pelts snug away wi' other stuff o' value." Gagnon paused and took a deep draught at his coffee.

Here you are without a liar or a fool among you not a durned one made a clean sweep of all the intellect and honesty and incorruptible worth in the country and hold on to it too, and then let out on these fellows because there isn't any left for 'em. I'm a lazy man myself and not much on argument, but I must say that's a weak place in your logic.

Of couse we'll give you another show. Come right along in your old place, and welcome." There was but one dissenting voice. It was that of Jake Alspaugh: "No, I'll be durned if we want ye along any more. We've no place for sich fellers with us. We only want them as has sand in their craws." But the protest was overslaughed by the multitude of assents.