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Townsend, remembering a certain day over near Alameda, when he had seen Mr. Cassidy at gun-play. He dismounted slowly and sorrowfully. "Do I do I get my two bits?" he asked. "You shore do yore gall is worth it," said Mr. Cassidy, turning the piebald over to its overjoyed owner, who was already arranging further gambling with his friend, the bartender. Mr.
"Yes," muttered Hamilton. "Then," said Monte, "I want you to get hold of the next point: that from now on you're to let her alone. Get that?" Hamilton's lips began to twitch. "Because if you come around bothering her any more," explained Monte, "I'll be there myself; and, believe me, you'll go out the door. And if you try any more gun-play the little fellows will nail you next time.
Did ye ever hear the like! And so the legend is built up. It's a great thing to become a local legend. I know, for I've built up a few of 'em myself.... I suppose the gun-play on the river-front gave him his start at it and the rest came easy." "Ask him. He'll probably tell you," said Mallory. "At least, he'll be interested in your theory."
"Wal, I reckon I've a shade the best of Cordts at gun-play, any day." Lucy regarded the man in surprise. "Oh, it's so strange!" she said. "You'd fight for me. Yet you dragged me for days over these awful rocks! ... Look at me, Creech. Do I look much like Lucy Bostil?" Creech hung his head. "Wal, I reckoned I wasn't a blackguard, but I AM." "You used to care for me when I was little.
That practically was the finish of the thing. There was, of course, a trial, at which Hicks and Bevans were convicted out of hand and duly sentenced to be hung a sentence that was carried out with neatness and despatch in the near future. Also, I did manage, in the fullness of time, to deliver La Pere's ten thousand dollars without further gun-play.
"The minute the shootin' is ceased we-alls takes Tutt an' surges over to the Red Light to try him; a-pendin' of which Dan Boggs sa'nters across to the O. K. Restauraw an' remarks, all casooal an' careless like: "'Dave Tutt downs Jim Baxter a minute back; good clean gun-play as ever I sees, too. Mighty big credit to both boys this yere is.
"Fun!... Jake, it 'll be fun enough fer me to sit hyar an' smoke in the shade, an' watch fer you to come a-runnin' from thet big German devil.... Pard, they say he's a bad man!" "Sure. I know thet. All them Germans is bad." "If the boss hadn't been so dog-gone strict about gun-play I'd love to go with you," responded Bill. "But he didn't give me no orders. You're the whole outfit this round-up."
Masseth was called away, soon after they entered the room, and Wilbur, left to himself, sauntered about among the groups of talkers, looking at the various trophies hung on the walls. As he drew near to one of the smaller groups, however, he caught the word "gun-play," so he edged up to the men and listened.
"Well, suppose he has?" Responded Red. "I don't reckon she'll stampede his gun-play none. "Yu don't reckon, eh?" Queried Buck with much irony. "No, an' that's what's th' matter with yu. Why, do yu expect to see him to-morrow? Yu won't if I knows him an' I reckon I do. Nope, he'll be follerin' her all around." "He's got sand to burn," remarked Red in awe. "Wonder how he got to know her?"
As for Sylvia, the first direct result of her husband's gun-play was that a week or two after the affair happened, she had a caller the wife of Jesus Mendoza. She had not had any callers since her marriage. Socially she had been entirely unrecognized.
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