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He's got seventy men, he says dare-devil gun-fighters from down south a piece which will do anything he tells 'em an' howl for more." Warden moistened his lips as he grinned his satisfaction. "There's only one trail, Singleton you are sure of that?" "One trail the Tom Long trail. The devil himself couldn't find another through that country." Warden leaned back in his chair, laughing lowly.
"Oh, you've always got some come-back," he went on blusteringly, "but I notice you don't say nothing against L. W. Now there was a man who had done me dirt he sold me out, on the Gunsight but when I trusted him and treated him white L. W. became my best friend. He stood right up with me against Andy McBain and that bunch of hired gun-fighters he had; and he'd lay down his life for me, to-morrow.
Gieger might have averted the threatening clash with a judicious use of soft, placating speech. But it pleased him to bluster. "We are deputies, acting under orders from the court. We are after a murderer, and we mean to get him!" he said, coldly. "Deputies! Hell!" Barkwell's voice rose, sharply scornful and mocking. "Deputies! Crooks! Gun-fighters! Pluguglies!"
That evening in the girls' sitting-room, where they invited me, I was led into a discourse upon the gun-fighters, outlaws, desperadoes, and bad men of the frontier. Miss Sampson and Sally had been, before their arrival in Texas, as ignorant of such characters as any girls in the North or East. They were now peculiarly interested, fascinated, and at the same time repelled.
"He he looks as if he might ride a horse well," ventured Bo. "Best hossman I ever seen," agreed Al, heartily. "And and shoot?" added Bo, hopefully. "Bo, he packs thet gun low, like Jim Wilson an' all them Texas gun-fighters. Reckon thet ain't no good word." "Then I'll vouch for him," said Bo, with finality. "Thet settles it." Auchincloss turned to the cowboy. "Las Vegas, you're a stranger to us.
He doesn't need them. Nothing much is doing at Circle City. Stop in on the way down and take half of Mr. Burdwell's men. You'll need them. There'll be gun-fighters in plenty to deal with. Be stiff. Keep things in check from the start. Remember, the man who shoots first comes off with the whole hide. And keep a constant eye on the grub."
"You can take a bear-cub and keep him tame till he gets the taste of blood, but after that you got to keep him muzzled, you know. Pierre needs a muzzle, but there ain't enough gun-fighters on the range to put one on him." Something like pride crept into the boy's voice while he spoke, and he ended with a ringing tone.
"Well," he said, "I've got to take a chance on you. An', somehow, it seems to me that I ain't takin' much of a chance, either. For a man that's supposed to be the hell-raisin' outlaw that folks say you are, you've got the straightest eyes I ever seen. I've seen killers an' outlaws, an' gun-fighters, an' I never seen one that could look at a man like you've looked at me.
"A picked-up gang of gun-fighters, sent here to blow this camp off the face of the earth, since that is the only way that the backers of the rival road can find to set us back," Tom rejoined. "If they drive us away from here, they'll attack the construction force next!" Five horsemen belonging to the field party rode in furiously, Matt Rice at their head.
"It is a way of the Thlinket-folk," Palitlum vouchsafed half apologetically. And I remembered the gun-fighters and bad men of my own Western land, and was not perplexed at the way of the Thlinket-folk. "In time," Palitlum continued, "we came to Chief Niblack and the Skoots. It was a feast great almost as the potlatch of Ligoun.
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