Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
More than likely they had assumed that he had crossed the mountains, and it was possible that most of the men on the hunt were on the east side of the range. He became more and more convinced of this as the afternoon wore on, but he did not relax his vigilance. His face had clouded. "We made a mistake, hoss," he muttered, "in not remembering to hunt up Mike Eagen first thing."
"No?" asked Eagen contemptuously. "Well, you watch an' see! If you try to stop me you'll stop lead!" He leaped forward and grasped Doane by the shoulder, jerked him forward, and stepped backward himself. He turned, dragging his victim, then stopped dead in his tracks with a hissing intake of breath. Rathburn was standing quietly in the doorway.
"I knew it was a put-up job between you an' Doane, an' I figured you'd maybe meet aroun' here where Doane would be sure to come to try an' take this woman with him." Rathburn eyed him calmly. There was something of a deadly calm in his very posture, as he stood just within the threshold. He looked past Eagen to Doane. Then he tossed the sack on the table.
'Eagen' will do." "All right," he laughed, "I sabe. Eagen it is." "I'll be aboard at six," said I. "I've got to make some arrangements." "Wish you could help with the lading," said he. "Still, I can get along. Want any advance money?" "No," I replied; then I remembered that I was supposed to be broke. "Yes," I amended. He gave me ten dollars. "I guess you'll show up," he said.
He chased them forward, and he chased them aft, and every time the pins fell, blood followed. Finally they dived like rabbits into the forecastle hatch. Captain Selover leaned down after them. "Now tie yourselves up," he advised, "and then come on deck and clean up after yourselves!" He turned to me. "Mr. Eagen, turn out the crew to clean decks."
Laura still stood in the doorway, stunned by the rapid and extraordinary turn of events. Eagen turned on Mallory with a snarl. "Shut up, you old fool! Don't butt in where you ain't wanted, an' on something you don't know anything about." "I know you're in my house!" Mallory retorted sternly. "I'll only be here a minute," said Eagen with a sneer.
He saw the few men at the bar turn and look in their direction, and he realized instinctively that these men were gamblers and shady characters who were probably friends of Eagen and his gang. "I give you my regards," cried Gomez in a frenzy of rage. "You gringo!"
"Neither she, nor you, nor Doane, nor all of you together can talk me out of it!" roared Eagen. "It was a frame-up!"
The pregnant silence was broken by the thundering roll of many horses galloping into the yard about the house. "There!" yelled Eagen in a voice of triumph. "There's your sweet little posse, Coyote!" "I expected to see Bob Long when I came down here!" said Rathburn coolly, looking at Laura Mallory for the first time. Several men stamped across the porch to the jingle of spur chains.
"Wonder what they've done?" There was no answer to this, and the sea lawyer took a new tack. "I suppose we're all getting double wages." "That's so." "And that's say four hunder' for us and Mr. Eagen here. I suppose the Old Man don't let the schooner go for nothing." "Two hundred and fifty a month," said I, and then would have had the words back. They cried out in prolonged astonishment.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking