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"Miss Valdés must be backing Pesquiera. They know you two are the guilty villains. Inside of twelve hours they'll have you both hogtied." Clearly the conspirators were of that opinion themselves. They talked together a good deal in whispers.
"Em Crawford won't sign unless he's a mind to." "Take my advice, Brad. Collect the kid, an' you'll sure have Em hogtied. He sets the world an' all by her. Y'betcha he'll talk turkey then," predicted Miller. "Are we fightin' kids?" the squat puncher wanted to know. "Did I ask your advice, Shorty?" inquired Steelman acidly. The range-rider grumbled an indistinct answer.
The officer looked amazed at being so accosted, but, like a good sport, laughed and ordered the horse to be turned loose. Billy's friends promptly lassoed the "waler," hogtied and saddled him in a hurry. Billy was in the saddle when the snorting animal was on his feet.
You said it yourself. What you hanging fire for, Pete?" The heavy revolver swung around in another seemingly careless gesture. Pete and the wounded Navaho hogtied Lennon with expert quickness. Slade shifted around to nudge Farley in the ribs with the toe of his cowhide boot. The badly wounded man stirred and opened his haggard eyes to blink at the disturber. "Has Cochise What! you?" he murmured.
Henderson coming," murmured Frances, for lack of something more effective to say. "Not him. He's hogtied to the scenery long enough to do my business. Now, it won't take me long if I get off right foot first. You read my letter, you said?" "Which letter?" She was examining attentively the fringe of the sash she wore. "Why, honey, that love-letter I wrote you.
Spread the news. Rustle up everybody you can get. Arrange with the railroad grade contractor to let us have all his men, teams, and scrapers till we get her hogtied and harnessed. Big wages and we'll feed the whole outfit free. Hire anybody you can find. Buy a coupla hundred shovels and send 'em out to Number Three. Get Robinson to move his tent-restaurant out there." Hart nodded.
With the deft skill of a trained roper Clay swung the rubber pipe round the body of the man again and again, drawing it close to the post and knotting it securely behind. The Swede struggled, but his furious rage availed him nothing. He was in the hands of the champion roper of Graham County, a man who had hogtied a wild hill steer in thirty-three seconds by the watch.
Your wound will be washed and tied up if I have to order you hogtied first. So mak the best o' that." Morse measured eyes with him a moment, then gave way with a sardonic laugh. McRae had a full share of the obstinacy of his race. "All right. I'm to be done good to whether I like it or not. Go to it." The trader pulled back the sleeve of his shirt and stretched out a muscular, blood-stained arm.
Tell him to buy a ticket for Arizona and take the train for home. This town is no healthy place for him." "Because he hogtied a Swede," snorted Johnnie indignantly. "No. He's got into more serious trouble than that. Your friend has made an enemy a powerful one. He'll understand if you tell him." "Who is this here enemy?" "Never mind. He hit up too fast a pace."
Well, there I was with my laig busted, forty miles from even a whistlin' post in the desert, gettin' wetter and colder every blessed minute. Heaps of times in my life I've felt more comfortable than I did right then. I was hogtied to that shale ledge with my broken ankle, as you might say. And the weather and my game laig and things generally kept gettin' no better right along hour after hour.
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