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"You want us to keep Jack from fightin', but you don't want us to hurt the other gent. What you want? Hogtie 'em both?" "Yes, yes; keep Jack out of Milligan's; but for heaven's sake don't try to put a hand on Donnegan." "Why not?" "For your sakes; he'd kill you, Joe!" At this they both gaped in unison, and as one man they drawled in vast admiration: "Good heavens!"
"Does a financier always hogtie a proposition before he backs it?" Dave asked him once with a sardonic gleam in his eye. "Always." "No matter how much he trusts the people he's doing business with?" "He binds them hard and fast just the same. It's the only way to do. Give away as much money as you want to, but when you loan money look after your security like a hawk."
"I promised her to rope and hogtie you if you made a break." Ashton was gazing into the girl's eyes, his own shining with reverent adoration. "Isobel?" he whispered. "Let us go up on the ridge and look out over our mesa," she murmured. "Wait a moment, dear," interposed Genevieve. "Lafayette, I wish to tell you that as soon as Tom and I return to Chicago, we shall go to your father.
The Navahos seized him on either side and forced him down again. He caught a glimpse of Carmena futilely clutching for Slade's throat. The big man burst into a bellow of contemptuous laughter and flung her from him. "Bah!" he jeered. "What you bucking about? Don't figger I want you any more, do you?" "No no, of course not. I But Jack's head If you hogtie him " "Got to be kept quiet, ain't he?
The cowman straightened up, his eyes glinting with righteous indignation. "What! Go 'way and leave you? when you want him to stay? By James! He's going to stay! Don't you worry, honey. He's going to stay, if I have to rope and hogtie him for you!" The girl stared into the frowning face of her father. There was no twinkle in the corner of his eyes. He was absolutely serious.
In his delirium he was perhaps living over again his experience with Pierre Poulette. "Maintiens le droit. Get your man and bring him in. Tough sledding. Never mind. Go through, old fellow. Bring him in. That's what you're sent for. Hogtie him. Drag him with a rope around his neck. Get him back somehow." The words struck Tom motionless.
I was prepared to like even the kind of young woman my husband told me to expect." "Bronco Bess, Queen of the Cattle Camp," suggested the girl, dimpling. "Wait till you see me rope and hogtie a steer." Mrs. Blake smiled, and looked across at Ashton, who sat motionless under the shadow of his big sombrero, his face half averted from the car. "I've a real surprise for you," said the girl. "Mr.
"Maybe I'm not such a live proposition as I might be. When two grown men let a kid hogtie them it sort of starts them thinking." "It sure does," Pugh agreed. He was a saturnine gentleman, with a humorous eye. "I been wantin' to scratch my nose for eight solid hours," he affirmed irrelevantly, rubbing that organ violently with his free hand. "He's some kid," said Glass. "Where is he?"
She sure got that tenderfoot roped mighty slick. Just wait and watch me hogtie the cripple. All I got to do is let him lead me to that there gold mine. Then I figger he's apt to git lost. Mebbe he believes that bunk about the lode being copper, and mebbe he don't. The point is, I git the mine, and he " The rest of the prediction was lost to Lennon.
But at that, we may have to hogtie a few of them smart Alecks from town, before we can dance peaceable." Mary Hope, Lance discovered, was already in the schoolhouse. Also, several of the intoxicated were there, and the quadrille was being danced with so much zest that the whole building shook.
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