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Butch, you take your men and ride for Wood's place. Then switch south and ride for Partridge's store; if we miss him at Drew's old house we'll go on and join you at Partridge's store and then double back. He'll be somewhere inside that circle and Eldara, you can lay to that. Now, boys, are your hosses fresh?" They were. "Then ride, and don't spare the spurs.
Soon they reached a little creek whose current, barely knee deep, foamed up around the shoulders of the horses and set them staggering. "The Saverack will be hell," said Nash, "and we'd better cut straight for the ford." "How long will it take?" "Add about three hours to the trip." "Can't do it; remember that little date back in Eldara to-night."
He thought of plague or some other disaster which might have overtaken the little village and wiped out nine tenths of the populace in a day. Only such a thing could account for silence in Eldara. There should have been bursts and roars of laughter here and there, and now and then a harsh stream of cursing.
If I thought it would be easy I wouldn't be tempted." "Well, if you like fighting you've sure mapped out a nice sizeable quarrel with me, Bud." "Good. I'm certainly coming back to Eldara. Now about this method of mine " "Throwing your cards on the table, eh? What you got, Bard, a royal flush?" "Right again. It's a very simple method but you couldn't beat it."
He should of gone due west, but I sent him south. There is a south trail, only it takes about three days to get to Eldara." "Maybe you think that interests me. It don't." Logan overlooked this rejoinder, saying: "Is it his scalp you're after?" "Your ideas are like nest-eggs, Logan, an' you set over 'em like a hen. They look like eggs; they feel like eggs; but they don't never hatch.
"This," he answered. "What d'you mean?" "You know me, Sally. I've worn out the other ways of raising hell, so I thought I'd start a little by coming to Eldara to kiss you." Her open hand cracked sharply twice on his lean face and she was out of his arms. He followed, laughing, but she armed herself with a red-hot frying pan and defied him. "You ain't even a good sport, Steve. I'm done with you!
"What's he done?" "The first trace I caught of him was at a shack of an old ranchhouse where he'd traded his lame hoss in. They gave him the wildest mustang they had a hoss that was saddle-shy and that hadn't never been ridden. He busted that hoss in a little piebald mustang, tougher 'n iron and that was why I didn't catch him till we hit Eldara."
Why, you poor, one-horned yearling, d'you think there's anybody in Eldara man enough to get fresh with me?" Bert retreated a step; caution was a moving element in his nature. From a vantage point behind a table, however, he ventured: "Then what is wrong?" Her woe, apparently, was greater than her wrath. She said sadly: "I dunno, Bert. I ain't the man I used to be I mean, the woman."
Hoss flesh is cheaper'n your own hides." The cavalcade separated and galloped in two directions through the town of Eldara. Glendin and Dr. Young struck out for the ranch of William Drew, but they held a moderate pace, and it was already grey dawn before they arrived; yet even at that hour several windows of the house were lighted. They were led directly to Drew's room.
They could never be trusted to help in the deception, so Drew summoned two of his men, "Shorty" Kilrain and "Calamity" Ben. Calamity had no other name than Ben, as far as any one on the range had ever been able to learn. His nickname was derived from the most dolorous face between Eldara and Twin Rivers.
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