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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Howdy, Charlie," he said, without displaying the least concern. "Wal, I don't know. Y' see this thing's li'ble to fizzle some. We've had 'em before. Guess my missis an' the gal'll stay right here by us. I 'low I feel they're safer wi' us. Mebbe it's jest a notion. If things gits hummin' I'd say come right along over an' share in wi' us.
Guess I'll git a pile out o' my claim, sure. A great big pile. Then I'm goin' to live swell in a big city an' have a great big outfit of folks workin' fer me. An' I'll git hooked up with a swell gal. It'll be a bully proposition. Guess the gal'll be lucky, cos I'll have such a big pile." The youngster's enthusiasm and conceit were astounding.
"They'll lay the crime on Lorey," he reflected, after he had laid his plan. "They'll hunt him down and lynch him and I shall be safe. Layson'll be ruined, he'll have to sell Woodlawn, and my gal'll be th' missus there, in spite of him. I've got to do it." Like a shadow of the night he hurried through the grounds until he reached the stable where Queen Bess was thought to be secure.
Judy," said Brian in a low voice; "don't worry Auntie Sue." "I ain't aimin' ter worry her none," returned the mountain girl; "but I'll bet you-all a pretty that this here gal'll worry both of youuns 'fore you are through with her; me, too, I reckon." For some reason, Auntie Sue's letter to Betty Jo seemed to be rather long.
Went a-sneakin' past and seen his tracks goin' up the cañon. Just creeps along and rides up on him and now he's dead! All dead but the gal and old Jim! Old Jim don't die. The gal'll die, but not old Jim! She'll tell old Jim what she knows and then old Jim will find the gold." Through the muffling snow he pushed on until the faint glow of a fire came to him through the mist of snowflakes.
"But then he warn't brought up in these here parts an' he can't be allowed to flout the morals o' this community in any sich way. If it's like we fears, the gal'll have ter pack off an' him promise ter behave or leave the country. Them's my sentiments. We better go to-morrow." At this, however, there were some objections. It might be that on the next day the young woman would return.
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