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"I tell you, Curly," he complained to his friend of nights when they came in and lounged in the soft dusk by the bunk-house, "it's unnatural. Not that I don't pay full respect to Jim Last's memory, an' him th' best man in all this hell-bent Valley, but it ain't right an' natural fer no woman t' do what she's doin'. Ain't she Jim Last's own daughter already with th' guns? Sure.
"Jim, are you just hell-bent on fighting or do you mean to make yourself the champion of every poor girl in these wilds?" Cleve puffed a cloud of smoke that enveloped his head "I don't pick quarrels," he replied. "Then you get red-headed at the very mention of a girl." A savage gesture of Cleve's suggested that Kells was right.
But I'll try, and if if I I never do still, it's my duty to marry him." "Some woman ought to talk to Bill Belllounds," declared Mrs. Andrews with a grimness that boded ill for the old rancher. "Did you know we had a new man up at the ranch?" asked Columbine, changing the subject. "You mean the hunter, Hell-Bent Wade?" "Yes. But I hate that ridiculous name," said Columbine.
Told me confidential a certain party had given you a white silk scarf, an' he was hell-bent on wearin' it home spotted red." "Anybody with him?" queried Duane. "Burt an' Sam Outcalt an' a little cowpuncher I never seen before. They-all was coaxin' trim to leave town. But he's looked on the flowin' glass, Buck, an' he's heah for keeps." "Why doesn't Sheriff Oaks lock him up if he's that bad?"
"Wal no, I didn't," slowly replied Belllounds, and his pause, with the keener look he bestowed upon Wade, told how the latter's query had struck home. "Wade Bent Wade," said Wade, with quiet distinctness. "Not Hell-Bent Wade!" ejaculated Belllounds. "The same.... I ain't proud of the handle, but I never sail under false colors." "Wal, I'll be damned!" went on the rancher.
"Once, son, and I've been thinking about it ever since. She was the right one for me, but she got the notion I wasn't the right one for her. Sometimes it happens that way. She found the man she thought she wanted, and I took to runnin' round the country with race horses. After that she was sure I was a lost soul and hell-bent for certain. This was a long time ago before you was born, I reckon."
Chief Ellis and a squad of mounted policemen watched them as they marched down Second street, shouting threats and waving their firebrands. "They're a hell-bent crew," he said to William Coleman. "Is your posse ready?" "Yes," he answered, "they've assembled near the dock. I've twenty companies." "Good.... You'll need 'em all." As he spoke a tongue of flame leaped upward from the darkness.
Lower he leaned, and looked with piercing gaze into the face and eyes that in this moment bore strange resemblance to Columbine. "So help me Gawd!... That's the secret?... Hell-Bent Wade! An' you've been on my trail!" He staggered to his big chair and fell into it. No trace of doubt showed in his face. The revelation had struck home because of its very greatness. Wade took the chair opposite.
The Colonel paused for a moment to digest this fact, then he went on: "Hell-bent on farming I hear; wants your father to look around for a place." This not being in the form of a question, Noah conserved his energies. "Don't amount to a hill of beans, I'll warrant," continued the Colonel, with a watchful eye on Noah for denial or confirmation, but Noah was noncommittal.
"Wade, you ain't agoin' to start thet tellin' hell-bent happenin's to come hyar at White Slides?" interrupted Belllounds, plaintively. "No, I reckon I've no hunch like that now," responded Wade, seriously. "But I was about to say that if Smith is in on any rustlin' of cattle he'll be hard to catch, an' if he's caught there'll be shootin' to pay. He's cunnin' an' has had long experience.
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