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O'Brien's manner rather pleased the simple easterner, for his unspoken contempt was beyond the reach of the latter's understanding. He smiled his perfect amiability. "Thanks," he cried readily. "I've got to go that way back, so I'll chase around there." He half turned away, as though about to depart, but turned again immediately.
Months later, the cowboy was frying pork over the stove of a little ranch near the Dakota line, when there was a quick thud of hoofs outside, and presently the Easterner entered with the letters and the papers. "Well," said the Easterner at once, "the chap that killed the Swede has got three years. Wasn't much, was it?" "He has? Three years?"
In this case the conditions would have rendered an Easterner incapable of hitting a feather pillow at three yards. And now began the most terrible part of this terrible day. A dozen of the warriors dismounted, made a short circle to the left, and disappeared in a thin growth of dried grasses, old mulliens, and stunted, scattered brush barely six inches high.
In one building there are alone four hundred native schoolgirls, rows upon rows of them that never seem to come to an end, sitting on the ground in their sober blue coats and trousers, peacefully combing each other's hair, or working on sandbags with the imperturbability of the Easterner who is placid under death.
Once when he jabbed out harpoon-fashion with his fork to pinion a biscuit, the weapon nearly impaled the hand of the Easterner which had been stretched quietly out for the same biscuit. After supper, as the men filed towards the other room, the Swede smote Scully ruthlessly on the shoulder. "Well, old boy, that was a good, square meal."
Weir stepped out for a moment to make a round of the camp and the horse corrals," the easterner replied in answer to an inquiry from the doctor. "Will you be seated?" And he politely placed chairs for Janet and Mary, while his look scrutinized the party with discreet interest. "Oh, Mr. Martinez, you've escaped!" Janet exclaimed, after a surprised stare at the lawyer.
Then, as though in doubt as to whether he had seen correctly, he tried it again. "Which do you mean?" he asked, puzzled. "The one in red. Now, she " The Westerner snorted irrepressibly. "What's the matter with you?" inquired the Easterner, looking on him with suspicious eyes. The other choked his laugh in the middle, and instantly assumed an expression of intense solemnity.
He looked up at the newcomer with dull resignation. "He takes it hard, poor fellow!" thought Fay. "Well, what's to be done?" asked the Easterner in a strained voice. "I suppose you know all about it, or you wouldn't be here." "Yes, I know all about it," said Fay gently. "You mustn't take it so hard. Perhaps we can do something.
Now let me tell you one thing. Let me tell you something. Listen! Johnnie was cheating!" "'Johnnie," said the cowboy, blankly. There was a minute of silence, and then he said, robustly, "Why, no. The game was only for fun." "Fun or not," said the Easterner, "Johnnie was cheating. I saw him. I know it. I saw him. And I refused to stand up and be a man. I let the Swede fight it out alone.
"When things comes as easy as this, you want to watch out for a change in the weather. We ain't through with the bunch yet." The Easterner, making the evening fire, nodded. "How are we to get provisions?" he asked. "First, I was thinkin' of packin' 'em in from Gophertown, over yonder. She's about thirty miles from here, across the alkali. 'T aint a regular town, but they got grub.
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