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What was it? "Well?" asked Frederic Fernand peevishly. "What do you think of him?" "I think," said the other casually, "that he's probably a Western gunman, with a record as long as my arm." "You think that?" asked the fat man. "Well, I've an idea that you think right. There's something about him that suggests action.
W. P. Bell, an Everett attorney representing a number of scab mills, a member of the Commercial Club and a deputy on the dock, testified next, contradicting the previous witnesses but throwing no additional light upon the case. He was followed by Charles Tucker, a scab and gunman employed by the Hartley Shingle Company and a deputy on the dock.
Invited to start a fight or withdraw, as he chose, Knell proved himself big in the manner characteristic of only the genuine gunman. "Stranger, I pass," he said, and, turning to the bar, he ordered liquor. The tension relaxed, the silence broke, the men filled up the gap; the incident seemed closed.
Some of the faces were distinctly brutal; there was the sullen visage of a powerful negro who, with different environment, might have been a Congo prince; but the face of "Plug" Spanos, a notorious gunman who was by far the worst character in the gang, might have been that of an artless plow-boy in a distant land under a warm sun. There remained, however, the "exception."
It was the look that comes into the face of the gunman when he is intent on the kill. "I wouldn't do that if I was you, Jim," Billie advised. "This ain't our personal fight. We're under orders. We'd better wait an' see what the old man wants us to do. An? I don't reckon I would shoot from ambush anyhow." "Wouldn't you? I would," The jaw of the younger man snapped tight.
It may also have certain requirements as to eyesight, hearing, reaction time, muscular co-ordination, sense of touch, and even, in some particular places, sense of smell and sense of taste. Moral requirements may vary from those of a hired gunman to those of a Y.M.C.A. secretary or a bank cashier.
Bartholomew believed was working in the interests of Montagne Lewis. "If O'Malley appears in Shopton, look out. He is a bad character. He is not only a notorious gunman, with several warrants out for him in these parts, but he is a cruel and desperate man in any event. The minute you mark him, have him arrested and telegraph me.
If they do their work right, why, he'll clear out free of the blood of the boy. If they don't ? "But the boy had a dash of his father in him. He knew trouble was hitting his trail. When it caught him up he was ready. He was quicker than the gun-men. And Murray was watching and saw. His gun was ready behind the curtains of that box, and it spoke, and spoke quick. The gunman was dead. Alec was dead.
Helen remembered hearing her uncle say that a real Westerner hated nothing so hard as the swaggering desperado, the make-believe gunman who pretended to sail under the true, wild, and reckoning colors of the West. Roy leaned his lithe, tall form against the stone mantelpiece and faced the girls. "When I rode out after Las Vegas I seen him 'way down the road," began Roy, rapidly.
"Commong ça va?" inquired Heinie, evidently mortified at his situation and condition, but putting on the careless front of a gunman in a strange ward. Pick-em-up Joe added jauntily: "Well, Doc, what’s the good word?" "France," I replied, smiling; "Do you know a better word?" "Yes," he said, "Noo York. Say, what’s your little graft over here, Doc?"
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