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Updated: May 28, 2025
The country, it seemed, was hell-bent for war; and Jimmie Higgins was hell-bent for martyrdom. If the great madness were to take possession of America, it would not be without his having done what he could to prevent it. He would stand in the path of the war chariot, he would throw himself beneath the hoofs of the cavalry; and block the road with his dead body.
But Missis McGillicuddy don't follow me around like a poodle dog, as the palmist, and the mind reader, and the dream book said she would. She's hell-bent excuse me sir on havin' her own way all the time." Just then a vision flitted past the door. It was Anita, dressed for dinner, in a filmy gown of pale blue and white, the colors of the Blessed Damozel.
You boys make me tired, going hell-bent into an enterprise where you'd all be dead and forgotten before the first turnover of your stock." He now looked at 'em in a sad, rebuking manner. It was like an icy blast from Greenland the way he took it. Two or three tried to start the big laugh again, but their yips was feeble and died quickly out. They just stood there foolish.
"Yes, I accuse you. Thief, rustler!... And for all I know your precious Hell-Bent Wade may be " He was interrupted by Burley's quick and authoritative interference. "Hyar, young man, I'm allowin' for your natural feelin's," he said, dryly, "but I advise you to bite your tongue. I ain't acquainted with Mister Moore, but I happen to know Wade.
I couldn't have fetched him back here not as he is now. I heard all about him, and if he isn't downright out of his mind he's hell-bent, as Bill says, on getting killed. Some of his escapades are are not for your ears. Bill did all any man could do for another. We've all done our best for Stewart. If you'd been given a chance perhaps you could have saved him. But it's too late.
"She'll git one the fust day of every month. Give her the larnin' she's so hell-bent on, stuff her plumb full on it. An' ef you let ennything happen to her" his brows lowered threateningly "I'll come back an' blow yer whole blame' horspittle into eternity!" "Pop!" Sally pleaded, "Pop!" But his emotions were at high tide and he did not heed her.
Thet's what gave him the name Hell-Bent.... An' Coles swore thet Wade was the whitest man he ever knew. Heart of gold, he said. Always savin' somebody, helpin' somebody, givin' his money or time never thinkin' of himself a-tall.... When he began to tell thet story about Cripple Creek then my ole head begun to ache with rememberin'. Fer I'd heerd Bent Wade talk before.
Smoke was permitted to question the witnesses, and he was in the middle of the cross-examination of Harding, when from without came the whining of dogs in harness, and the grind and churn of sled- runners. Somebody near the door peeped out. "It's Sam an' his pardner an' a dog-team hell-bent down the trail for Stewart River," the man reported.
It was kinder by accident that he bumped off four Apaches an' a halfbreed the other day." "Now don't you blame me for that, Billie. You was hell-bent on goin' into the Roubideau place an' I trailed along. When you got yore pill in the laig you made me ride up the gulch alone. I claim I wasn't to blame for them Mescaleros. I wasn't either."
Number two dug in his spurs and went hell-bent off the trail and across country dragging the other fellow and him bouncing over the rough spots something horrible. "I don't know what got the matter uh me, then; I couldn't do anything but sit there on my rock and watch through the glasses. Anyway, while they looked close enough to hit with a rock, they was off a mile or more.
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