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Updated: May 7, 2025
An aged Mexican, armed with a long bunch of willow brush, swept idly at the sprinkled street and Old Hassayamp Hicks, the proprietor of the Alamo Saloon, leaned back in his rawhide chair and watched him with good-natured contempt. The town was dead, after a manner of speaking, and yet it was not dead.
And Hassayamp Hicks, who came from Texas where men held their honor above their lives; he went along as a friend in arms, to stand off the gunmen of McBain. The news had come in that Andrew McBain had left Geronimo under cover of the night, with an automobile load of guards, and the next day at dawn some belated stampeders had seen them climbing up to the dome.
He was master of Gunsight yet, though all his money had vanished and his credit would buy nothing but the drinks. "Well, what d'ye know about that?" observed Hassayamp meditatively. "By George, sometimes I almost think that boy is right!" He cleared his throat and hobbled towards the door and the crowd took the hint to disperse.
Rimrock hung up there and fell to pacing the floor and for the first time the busy city looked gray. It looked drab and dirty and he thought longingly of the desert with its miles and miles of clean sand. He thought of his mine and how he had fought for it, and of all his friends in the straggling town; of Old Juan and L. W. and hearty Old Hassayamp with his laugh and his Texas yupe.
He paused with a cynical smile and looked Hassayamp in the eye. "Well no," conceded Hassayamp weakly. "You bet your life he could!" snapped back Rimrock. "A guy came along that knowed. He took one look at those five-pound notes and handed up fifty cents." "'I'll take two of 'em, he says; and walks off with fifty dollars!"
He leaned forward and fixed the saloon keeper with his earnest eyes and Old Hassayamp held up both hands. "Yes, yes, boy, I know!" he broke out hurriedly. "Don't talk to me I'm convinced. But by George, Rim, you can spend more money and have less to show for it than any man I know. What's the use? That's what we all say.
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