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Updated: June 10, 2025
Carolyn June and Ophelia exchanged sly winks as they guessed the thing that was in Old Heck's mind. Skinny, himself, was a bit worried as the time drew near for the return of the cowboys. He hoped Carolyn June wouldn't spring another dance or similar opportunity for indiscriminate love-making.
I'm going fishing, Belle. I'm going to fish where there are fish. And if I'm not back by the clock, for heck's sake don't get yourself excited and call me a mystery." She called after him. "Lance, come back here and tell me the truth! You don't believe " "Belle, I'll tell you the truth. Sure, I'll tell you the truth. I tell you to cut out this worrying over nothing.
"Well, for one thing" Chuck began soberly "the way they'd look at each other " "I saw her squeeze Old Heck's arm once!" Bert interrupted. "Aw, she's done that lots of times," Chuck said airily; "that ain't nothing special!
But the worst indication was them flowers she wore on her bosom every day Old Heck bought 'em!" he finished dramatically, leaning over and speaking tensely as though it pained him immeasurably to break the news to Parker while he fixed on Old Heck's rival a look he imagined was one of supreme pity. "Yeah, he had them sent up from Las Vegas," Bert added, picking up the cue and lying glibly.
Ever since they got that Thunderbolt horse and beat Old Heck's Quicksilver with him they've been crowing over the Quarter Circle KT and I'm getting plumb sick of it " "Old Heck lost three thousand dollars on that race!" Bert interrupted rather triumphantly. "I didn't neither," Old Heck corrected sullenly, "it was only twenty-five hundred!"
"I et it on my way here this morning. I got paid off last night and I took out five cents and gave the rest to mother, and this morning I bought a pie with it and et up every bite. It might have been hooked when I was out the room, so I'm glad I didn't save none. I got it at Heck's. He keeps the best pies in town for five cents. They're real fat." I was paying little attention to Jimmy.
"Old Heck's got a letter," Skinny said, jerkily; "maybe's it's bad news an' he ought to have it quick," as the Ramblin' Kid reached for a yellow envelope held in the outstretched hand. At that instant Old Heck, owner and boss of the Quarter Circle KT cow outfit, stepped from the shadow of the open ranch-house door.
Even if he was, Dorsey and his crowd would be shy of the betting. This was one reason Old Heck had so played the conversation that Dorsey definitely threw down the challenge and which was so coldly accepted. The Vermejo cow-man would have to come in heavy on the betting or be placed in the role of a bluffer. By the time they reached the ranch Old Heck's good humor was restored.
As the cook and her daughter by their very homeliness had appalled and overwhelmed them, these two, Ophelia and Carolyn June, by their exactly opposite appearance stunned Old Heck and Skinny and rendered them speechless with embarrassment. Both were silently thankful they had shaved that morning and Skinny wondered if his face, like Old Heck's, was streaked with sweat and dust.
"Them women coming or something has got Old Heck's goat," Bert remarked to Charley as they climbed on their horses and followed a moment later. "Something's got it," Charley answered, "he ain't acted natural all day do you reckon he's sore because Parker took the widow to town?" "Darned if I know," Bert said doubtfully, "that might be it."
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