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Updated: June 2, 2025
"This is what's new. Whistlin' Dan Barry no less has busted open the jail at Elkhead an' set Lee Haines free." The sheriff could not speak. "I fixed it, Gus. I staged the whole little game." "You fixed it with Whistlin' Dan?" "Don't ask me how I worked it. The pint is that he did the job. He got into the jail while the lynchers was guardin' it, gettin' ready for a rush. They opened fire.
Gary Peters lifted his eyebrows and then restored his pipe. He spoke through his teeth. "You ain't got a piece of money to bet on that, partner?" he queried softly. "Ten extra if you get to Elkhead before me." "They's limits to hoss-flesh," remarked Peters. "What time you ridin' against?" "Against a cross between a bullet and a nor'easter, Gary. I'm going back to drink to your luck."
Oh, Kate, our bodies is ashes and dust, and all that's worth while is that flame blowin' up from us, settin' the world on fire!" Even in Elkhead there were fires this day. In the Gilead saloon one might have thought that the liquid heat which the men imbibed would serve in place of stoves, but the proprietor, "Pale Annie," had an eye to form, and when the sky was grey he always lighted the stove.
"He sure does," said Buck, "which shows that he's jest ravin'. How could Lee have the girl, him bein' in jail at Elkhead?" "But maybe Lee had her before Whistlin' Dan got him at Morris's place. Maybe she's up to Silent's camp now." "A girl in Jim Silent's camp?" repeated Buck scornfully. "Jim'd as soon have a ton of lead hangin' on his shoulders." "Would he though?" broke in Mrs. Daniels.
Until at length they sat solemnly, back to back, easing the pressure of the iron as best they might with their hands. Assembled Elkhead reeled about the room, drunken with laughter. But Mac Strann went quietly back to his table and paid no attention to the scene.
Every ten miles, or so, I want you to stop at some place where you can get a fresh hoss. Get your fresh hoss and leave the one you've got off, and tell them to have the hoss you leave ready for me any time to-night. It'll take you clear till to-morrow night to reach Elkhead, even with relayin' your hosses?" "Round about that, if I ride like hell. What do I take with me?" "Nothing.
"In a pinch like this," he said amiably, "I would. But here's my business. Lee Haines is jailed in Elkhead. The man that put him behind the bars an' the only one that can take him out agin is Whistlin' Dan. An' the one person who can make Dan set Lee loose is you. Savvy? Will you go an' talk with Dan? This wolf of his would find him for you." She shook her head.
Would you rather be back in Elkhead dangling from the end of a rope?" "It seems to have been a sort of joke," said Haines. "Exactly. But at that sort of a joke nobody laughs!" "And Whistling Dan Barry?" "He's done for. We're all agin him, an' now even the rangers will help us hunt him down. Think it over careful, Haines. You're agin him because you want the girl.
But he was naked to the skies of chance naked as this landscape. Far past the mid-day they reached the streets of Elkhead and stopped at the hotel. As the doctor swung down from his saddle, cramped and sore from the long ride, thunder rattled over the distant hills and a patter of rain splashed in the dust and sent up a pungent odor to his nostrils.
"When a man's sold his soul to the devil they ain't no way of buyin' it back." "When you're all waked up," said Silent soothingly, "they ain't no more reasonable man than you, Gus. But sometimes you get to seein' things cross-eyed. Here's my game. What do you think they'd do in Elkhead if a letter came for Dan Barry along about now?" "The boys must be pretty hot," said the sheriff.
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