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After a moment of staring through the window the scholar wrote again: "The major portion of Elkhead lies within plain sight of my window. I see a general merchandise store, twenty-seven buildings of a comparatively major and eleven of a minor significance, and five saloons. The streets "
The coming of the railroad had changed Elkhead from a mere crossing of the ways to a rather important cattle shipping point. Once a year it became a bustling town whose two streets thronged with cattlemen with pockets burdened with gold which fairly burned its way out to the open air. At other times Elkhead dropped back into a leaden-eyed sleep.
"Shall we give up the trail and take him over to Elkhead?" "An' break the heart of the ol' man?" "Buck is one of the gang, that's certain." "Get Silent an' there won't be no gang left." "But we caught this chap in red blood " "He ain't very old, Tex. Maybe he could change. I think he ain't been playin' Silent's game any too long." "We can't let him go. It isn't in reason to do that."
After a moment: "When are you going in to break the news to Kate?" Buck Daniels regarded him with angry astonishment. "Me?" he cried. "I'd sooner cut my tongue out!" He drew a great breath. "I feel like like Dan was dead!" "The best thing for Kate if he were." "That's a queer thing to say, Lee. The meat would be rotted off your bones six years ago in Elkhead if it hadn't been for Whistlin' Dan."
"There'll be a crowd in the saloon, but not a hand will stir to arrest Silent till after the fight." "But Dan won't go to Tully's," broke in old Joe. "If Silent is crazy enough to do such a thing, Dan won't be." "He will," said Kate. "I know!" "You've got to stop him," urged Buck. "You've got to get to Elkhead and turn Dan back."
One of them, he looked up an' down the street, an' seein' that no one was in sight, he come up to me an' without shakin' hands he says: 'I'm some surprised to see you in Elkhead, Shorty. 'Why, says I, 'the town's all right, ain't it? 'It's all right, he says, 'but you'd find it a pile more healthier out on the range." "What in hell did he mean by that?" growled Silent.
"In my day I've gone three months without speakin' to anything in boots; and I wasn't hired for it, neither." "You know them people up the line," said Daniels. "Do they know you?" "I'll tell a man they do! Know Gary Peters?" "Partner, this is what I want. I want you to leave Brownsville inside of ten minutes and start riding for Elkhead. I want you to ride, and I want you to ride like hell.
The cowpunchers would scatter at the first sign of Barry, at the first shrill of his ill-omened whistling. They might ride for Elkhead and raise a posse from among the citizens, but it would take two days to do that and gather a number of effective fighters for the crisis, and in the meantime the chances were large that Barry would strike the ranch while the messenger was away.
Moreover, since large shipments of cash were often directed by Wells Fargo to Elkhead, Hardy's position was really more significant than the size of the village suggested.
"Old man Perkins, didn't he tell us that Haines was the man that Whistlin' Dan Barry had brought down into Elkhead? How could Haines do this shootin' while he was in jail?" "Ma," said Sam, "you watch Whistlin' Dan. Buck an' me'll take care of the hoss that black stallion. He's pretty near all gone, but he's worth savin'. What I don't see is how he found his way to us.
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