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Updated: May 26, 2025
Mebby Jack don't jest love him but Jack ain't been losin' any time since you been gone." Corliss flushed. "I suppose I don't know that! But he hasn't seen the last of me yet." "If I had what's comin' to you, you bet I wouldn't work on no cattle-ranch, either. I'd sure hire a law-shark and find out where I got off." Fadeaway's suggestion had its intended effect.
Corliss made a gesture, at which the other laughed. "All right, pardner. I'll fan it for the medicine." When he returned to the room, Corliss was up and dressed. Contrary to Fadeaway's expectations, the other was apparently himself, although a little too bright and active to be normal. "Guess I got noisy last night," said Corliss, glancing at Fadeaway's swollen lip. "Forget it! Have some of this.
"Ante up, Loring!" said Shoop, mounting his horse. "I'll see your hand if it takes every chip in the stack." "Here, too!" chorused the riders. "We're all in on this." They trailed along in single file until they came to the ford. They reined up sharply. One of them dismounted and dragged the body of Fadeaway to the bank. They grouped around gazing at the hole in Fadeaway's shirt.
I arrest you as a suspicious character, and I guess I'll have to keep you here till I find out more about Fadeaway's case. Have a cigar?" "Huh! Say, don't you ever get mad?" queried Sundown, impressed by the other's most genial attitude. The sheriff laughed. "Doesn't pay in my business. Now, you just ease up and tell me what you know. It will save time. Did you ever have trouble with Fadeaway?"
He saw with instant vividness the wrecked framework of his own plans. He heard the echo of Fadeaway's sneering laugh in the fury of the wind. He told himself that he had been duped and that he deserved it. Lacking physical strength to carry him through to a place of tentative safety, he gave up, and credited his sudden regret to true repentance rather than to weakness.
"I ain't, Billy. I'm out of a job myself: and nothin' comin' like you." Corliss felt that there was something in his companion's easy drift that had not as yet come to the surface. Fadeaway's hard-lined face was unreadable. The cowboy saw a question in the other's eyes and cleverly ignored it.
Nobody takes her nowadays, so we'll be under cover till we hit the ford. We can camp there back in the brush and tackle her next evenin'. So-long." Fadeaway was downstairs and out on the street before Corliss realized that he had committed himself to a desperate and dangerous undertaking. He recalled the expression in Fadeaway's eyes when they had shaken hands.
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