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Updated: June 1, 2025
Part 1 "Hmp! Want to be a reporter, do you?" Warren, city editor on the Advocate, leaned back in his chair and looked Jeff over sharply. "Yes." "It's a hell of a life. Better keep out." "I'd like to try it." "Any experience?" "Only correspondence. I've had two years at college." The city editor snorted. He had the unreasoning contempt for college men so often found in the old-time newspaper hack.
"Recommend yoreself, can you?" asked West with a hint of humor. "Yes, sir." "Who are you?" "Dave Sanders from Arizona, first off." "Been punchin' long?" "Since I was a kid. Worked for the D Bar Lazy R last." "Ever go on a cattle train?" "Twice to Kansas City." "Hmp!" That grunt told Dave just what the difficulty was. It said, "I don't know you.
"What are you doing here?" demanded a voice Steve recognized instantly as belonging to Harrison. The prisoner made no resistance. He ran into a patter of frightened, apologetic Spanish. "What's your name?" "Pedro Cabenza, señor," replied the owner of that name. "It is so hot in the stable. So I bring my blankets here and sleep." "Hmp!" Harrison took time for reflection. "Know where I put up?"
New Mexico has had a change of heart. Guns are going out, Meldrum, and little red schoolhouses are coming in. We've got to keep up with the fashions." "Hmp! Schoolhouses! I know what's ailin' you. Since Anse Rutherford's girl " "You're off the reservation, Dan," warned the rancher, and again his low voice had the sting of cactus thorns in it. Meldrum dropped that subject promptly.
"I was writing a letter," said Sheila in a low voice, beginning to wash the plates and shrinking at the pain of scalding water. "Hmp! Writing letters at this hour! One of your friends back East? I thought it was about time somebody was looking you up. What do your acquaintance think of you comin' West with Sylly?"
Say, leave your dishes and go up and put on your best duds." "That's talking," commented Babe. In the dining-room "Momma" said, "Hmp!" and Girlie was silent. Sheila looked at her protector. "But, you see, Mr. Hudson, I I it was only a month ago " She made a gesture with her hands to show him her black dress, and her lips trembled. Pap walked round to her and patted her shoulder. "I know," he said.
Anybody could stake a claim and gamble on his luck. Now the big corporations have slipped in and grabbed the best. It ain't a prospector's proposition any more. Instead of faro banks we've got savings banks. The wide-open dance hall has quit business in favor of moving pictures. And, as I said before, we've got Society." "All frontier countries have to come to it." "Hmp!
"I'd like to know, young man, why the police are shadowing this house?" "I expect they're lookin' for me." "I expect they are, and I'm not sure I won't help them find you. You'll have to show cause if I don't." "His bark is much worse than his bite," the girl explained to Clay, just as though her father were not present. "Hmp!" exploded the mining magnate a second time. "Get busy, young fellow."
You're discharged." "Barney, too?" "Hmp! He's a horse of another color. Think we'll send him over the plains." "Why make two bites of a cherry, sir? He can't be guilty if I'm not," the released prisoner said. "Did I say you weren't?" Inspector MacLean countered. "Not worth the powder, is he, sir?" Tom insinuated nonchalantly. "Rather a fathead, Barney is. If he's guilty, it's not as a principal.
"Hmp!" said "Momma" again. "We aren't goin' to talk about our acquaintance, are we? Well, some folks' acquaintance don't bear talkin' about; they're either too fine or they ain't the kind that gets into decent conversation." She walked away. Sheila did her work, holding her anger and her misery away from her, refusing to look at them, to analyze their cause. It was a very busy day.
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