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Why, if it was me, do you s'pose I'd leave another man no matter how old and safe he was to tell such a story as that his own way and hog all the credit for himself? That Las Uvas push is a four-flush he needn't stir a peg for them. No, sir! I'd have stayed right there till you got ready to come and every time I'd narrate that tale about the scrap it would get scarier and scarier."
"Think you'll four-flush, huh? Well, we'll see after sun-up." He turned his back on the prisoner and walked over to where the old Navaho was starting a fire for the inevitable flapjacks, bacon, and coffee. The thought of food nauseated Lennon. But he would have given a thousand dollars for one of the canteens of water.
Every time I drew a picture of that scene and heard myself telling her I was nothing but a fawn-colored four-flush I could see my future putting on the mitts and getting ready to hand me one. And when I thought of the dish of fairy tales I had cooked for that girl I could feel something running around in my head and trying to hide. I suppose it was my conscience.
Texas, and the whole developing Southwest, was full of such characters. It was a very difficult thing to distinguish between fighters who were bad men and fighters who were good men. However, it was no difficult thing for one of my calling to tell the difference between a real bad man and the imitation "four-flush." Then I told the girls the story of Buck Duane, famous outlaw and Ranger.
I shore never knowed thet nice-spoken Las Vegas Carmichael could use such language. It was a stream of the baddest names known out here, an' lots I never heard of. Now an' then I caught somethin' like low-down an' sneak an' four-flush an' long-haired skunk, but for the most part they was just the cussedest kind of names.
In the kitchen Sally spoke without prelude. "What deviltry are you up to now, Steve?" "Me?" he repeated with eyes widened by innocence. "What d'you mean, Sally?" "Don't four-flush me, Steve." "Is eating in your place deviltry?" "Am I blind?" she answered hotly. "Have I got spring-halt, maybe?
If I do, then I'll deserve what you what I get. But, Russ, don't think me a a four-flush." All the long ride home we did not exchange another word. The traveling gait of Sally's horse was a lope, that of mine a trot; and therefore, to my relief, she was always out in front.
"If Riggs follows me and tries any of his four-flush desperado games he'll have his hands full," said Bo, grimly. "And that without my cowboy protector! But I just wish Riggs would do something. Then we'll see what Las Vegas Tom Carmichael cares. Then we'll see!" Bo bit out the last words passionately and jealously, then she lifted her bridle to the spirited mustang.
Them kind shore is the dangerest.... Wal, she says: 'Reddy, are you goin' to let them run you out of heah? They haven't any strings on me. So I slapped Cordy's face an' told him to shut up. He let out a roar an' got wild with his hands, like them four-flush fellers do who wants to look real bad.
An' every town you ride into will scare up some cowpuncher full of booze or a long-haired four-flush gunman or a sheriff an' these men will be playin' to the crowd an' yellin' for your blood. Thet's the Texas of it. You'll have to hide fer ever in the brakes or you'll have to KILL such men. Buck, I reckon this ain't cheerful news to a decent chap like you.
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