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The owner of the wagons explained how he came to have the horse. The animal had come to his camp one morning, back about twenty miles from where we had lost him, while he was feeding grain to his work stock, and being a pet insisted on being fed. Since then, I have always had a lot of respect for a Greaser's opinion regarding a horse."
"But this yere Mexican, after he stampedes 'em, huddles what he can together as I says mebby it's a dozen an' p'ints off into the hills. "Of course it ain't no time after the sun shows the tracks when Enright, Jack Moore, an' myse'f is on the trail. Tutt an' Dan Boggs wants in on the play, but we can't spar' so many from the round-up. "It's one of the stolen ponies tips this Greaser's hand.
"The smile that won't come off!" somebody yelled, and the audience laughed loudly in its relief. "The kick that Greaser's got is something God-awful," Danny gasped in his corner to his adviser while his handlers worked frantically over him. The second and third rounds were tame.
"Which this yere is almighty flatterin' to Mace as a shot, an' it plumb tickles the boy's sire. He allows he's lived in Arkansaw, an' shorely knows good shootin', an' this yere's speshul good. An' then he corrals the Greaser's skelp to take back with him.
"If I tho't " began Sonora, but Rance rudely cut in with: "Where is this trail?" "Up the Madrona Canyada," was the greaser's instant reply. At this juncture a Ridge boy, who had pushed aside the bear-skin curtain and was gazing with mouth wide open at the proceedings, suddenly cried out: "Why, hello, boys! What's the " He got no further. In a twinkling and with cries of "Shut up!
Amazed, Buck hastily pulled the trigger twice again without results. As he realized that in some mysterious manner the weapon had been tampered with, his teeth grated, but with no perceptible pause in the swiftness of his action he drew back his arm and hurled the pistol straight into the greaser's face. His aim was deadly.
Yet all that was left of either was the "greaser's" chains. Could there have been collusion? It meant more trouble for 'Tonio. Instead of facing investigation, as Harris declared he would, he had fled.
"You wouldn't go with us," continued Farley angrily, "and gave us a greaser's talk-fest instead." "I didn't advise you against going," responded Dave, standing with his arms folded, utterly cool as he eyed his accuser. "Then, after we went, some one went and wised the powers," charged Farley. "Now, no one but a most abandoned greaser would do that."
He'll have the whole forest service out here and the National Guard. He's a friend of my father's. Why, these kidnappers will be hanged!" "I wish the Guard would come quick. Too bad you couldn't have sent word! I'd enjoy seeing Greaser swing. Say, he hasn't a ghost of a chance, with the President and Jim Williams after him." "Dick, I want the rings in Greaser's ears." "What for?
If they don't, you can gamble your spurs they're plenty able to protect themse'fs. All you can do is file them supplications. The angels lets 'em go or turns 'em down accordin'. Now, I holds that this Laredo sport who prays that time does right. Thar's nothin' like a showdown; an' his play, since he volunteers to ride herd on the Greaser's soul, is to do all he knows, an' win out if he can.
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