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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Now," he said when they reached the edge of the sandy depression that had been gouged deeper by freshets and offered some shelter in case of attack, "you boys jest fool around here on the aidge 'n' foller me down here like you was jest curiouslike over what I'm locatin'. That'll keep them babies up there guessin' till we're all outa sight MEBBY!" He pulled down the corners of his mouth till his mustache-ends dropped a full inch, and lifted himself off his horse with a bored deliberation that was masterly in its convincingness.
"Lucky lads you might count yourselves if on'y you knew how I was layin' right here in ambush, ready to sink that boat an' make the biggest sort o' a splash. An' I'm guessin' I got off right smart 'bout that cookin' fire racket, come to think of it might a'spilled the beans all right, and made all sort o' trouble for our crowd."
The boat, rocking heavily under the efforts of many hands at the sweeps, was driven furiously out of range, and Henry and Seth laughed low, but with pleased content. This was war, and they were fighting for the lives of women and children. "I'm thinkin' that we've put 'em to guessin' for a while," said Seth.
Folks seem to be guessin' the worker needs somethin' more than his wage. They guess he's gotten some sort of queer soul needin' things he can't pay for. I allow I hadn't seen it that way myself. It mostly seemed to me a hell of a good wage and a full belly was mostly the need of a lumber-jack, and a dead sure thing all he deserved.
Seems to me they've got a grudge ag'in' them Sunset Valley ranchers, an' are workin' it off. "Why? That question has got Gage guessin'. It's got everybody guessin'. Stock is bein' run off in big bunches; men is bein' murdered without no cause; no man is able to get any money in or out of the valley an' they're doin' other things that is makin' the cattlemen feel nervous an' flighty.
You an' me we're guessin' to make a pile o' dollars, so we could set up a palace on 5th Av'noo, New York, if we was yearnin' that-a-way. I don't reckon there's many fellers 'ud find trouble in such a play as that.
"At the most fashionable hotel." "Parker's?" "You're good at guessin'. Perhaps you'd like to dine there?" "I don't know as they'd let me in," said the boy, doubtfully; "but I'll show you where there's a nice eatin' house, where they don't charge half so much." "'Twouldn't be fashionable enough for me. I shall have to dine alone. See what comes of tryin' to fool your grandfather."
As, however, they all strikes out in different directions, I ain't takin' no stock therein. "But, two years ago, when I was meanderin' around lookin' for signs, I comes across the bones of an old mule with the remains of a saddle on his back, an' I didn't have any trouble in guessin' it to be Burns's.
Sowl, I don't know what you call a fiction but if I'm guessin' properly, hell to the much of it was in his blows look at how my head is, and I wish you could see my ribs, plase your worship." "Well but let us come to the most important matter first and before I go further, my friends and brothers, I would just throw out for your satisfaction, a few observations that I wish to impress upon you.
Next thing happens is Lorson opens up Fort Duggan, and puts the tough in. So the boys are guessin'. There sure is some sort of murder behind it. Lorson don't miss things. His chances are mostly a cinch." "Yes, he's pretty wise." The thoughtful eyes of the trail man were turned on the sides of the glowing stove so that the saloon-keeper had no chance of observing them.
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