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Updated: June 4, 2025
"A crowd was coming down street. It stopped before the hall. Men came running in, yelling. We thought there was a fire. Then that Ranger, Steele, stalked in, dragging a fellow by the name of Snell. We couldn't tell what was wanted because of the uproar. Finally your father restored order. "Steele had arrested Snell for alleged assault on a restaurant keeper named Hoden.
"Wright, I'll not take offense, because you seem to be championing your beautiful cousin," replied Steele in slow speech, biting. "But let me return your compliment. You're a fine Southerner! Why, you're only a cheap four-flush damned bull-headed rustler" Steele hissed the last word. Then for him for me for Hoden there was the truth in Wright's working passion-blackened face.
Will you start me up as a stockman, with a little herd all my own?" "Russ, this's durn strange, comin' from Sampson's cowboy," he said. "I'm not in his outfit. My job's with Miss Sampson. She's fine, but the old man? Nit! He's been after me for weeks. I won't last long. That's one reason why I want to start up for myself." "Hoden sent you to me, did he? Poor ol' Jim.
He told me he had met Jim Hoden, Morton and Zimmer, and that these men had approached others of like character; a secret club had been formed and all the members were ready for action. Steele also told me that he had spent hours at night watching the house where George Wright stayed when he was not up at Sampson's.
About six days journey by land from Hoden, there is a place called Teggazza , which in our language signifies a chest or bag of gold. In this place large quantities of salt are dug up every year, and carried by caravans on camels to Tombucto and thence to the empire of Melli, which belongs to the Negroes.
It developed that Hoden didn't accuse anybody, didn't know who attacked him. Snell, being obviously innocent, was discharged. Then this this gun fighting Ranger pulled his guns on the court and halted the proceedings." When Wright paused I plainly heard his intake of breath. Far indeed was he from calm. "Steele held everybody in that hall in fear of death, and he began shouting his insults.
Blandy runs the place." "That Blandy I've got no use for him. His faro game's crooked, or I'm locoed bronc. Not that we don't have lots of crooked faro dealers. A fellow can stand for them. But Blandy's mean, back handed, never looks you in the eyes. That Hope So place ought to be run by a good fellow like you, Hoden." "Thanks, Russ," replied he, and I imagined his voice a little husky.
It halted Snell as if it had been a bullet. He seemed to shrink. "Sampson, I saw Snell attack Hoden," said Steele, his voice still ringing. "What has the court to say to that?" The moment for open rupture between Ranger Service and Sampson's idea of law was at hand. Sampson showed not the slightest hesitation.
Two ships have been already lost on these shoals. Cape Branco lies S.W. of Cape Cantin, or rather S. and by W. Behind Cape Branco there is a place called Hoden, six days journey inland on camels, which is not walled, but is much frequented by the Arabs and caravans, which trade between Tombucto, and other places belonging to the Negroes, and the western parts of Barbary.
Gold is the best and principal commodity which comes through the country of the Azanhaji, and a part of it is brought every year from Hoden to Arguin, where it is bartered with the Portuguese .
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