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Updated: May 14, 2025
The cow-puncher's eye rested a moment amiably upon me. "You can play whist with your brains," he mused, "brains and cyards. Now cyards are only one o' the manifestations of poker in this hyeh world. One o' the shapes yu fool with it in when the day's work is oveh. Maybe it will be a mean, triflin' army, or an empty six-shooter, or a lame hawss, or maybe just nothin' but his natural countenance.
"So she's arrived in this hyeh country?" observed the Virginian, very casually. "Arrived!" said Trampas again. "Where have you been grazing lately?" "A right smart way from the mules." "Nebrasky and the boys was tellin' me they'd missed yu' off the range," again interposed Wiggin. "Say, Nebrasky, who have yu' offered your canary to the schoolmarm said you mustn't give her?"
"Without cheap foreigners they couldn't afford all this hyeh new gradin'," the Southerner continued. "Grading! Can't you tell when a flood's been eating the banks?" "Why, yes," said the Virginian, sweet as honey. "But 'ain't yu' heard of the improvements west of Big Timber, all the way to Missoula, this season? I'm talkin' about them." "Oh! Talking about them. Yes, I've heard."
The twin spirals of smoke were visible now, and where the path forked the boy stopped and turned, jerking his thumb toward her cabin and his. "Ef anything happens" he paused, and the girl nodded her understanding "you an' me air goin' to stay hyeh in the mountains an' git married." "Yes, Jasie," she said.
The boy flinched, but only for a moment. "I kin borrer the money," he said stoutly. "But you can't git a license you ain't a man." "I ain't!" cried the boy hotly; "I GOT to be!" "Come in hyeh, Jason," said the old man, for it was time to leave off evasion, and he led the lad into the house while Mavis, with the old woman's arm around her, waited in the porch. Jason came out baffled and pale.
"Not altogether," the mountaineer agreed, "the real ol'-time feud is peterin' out, an' it's mainly due to the schoolin'. The young folks ain't ready fo' revenge now, an' that sort o' swings the women around. An' up hyeh in the mount'ns, same as everywhar else, I reckon, the idees o' the women make a pile o' difference."
With a sudden movement she snatched her rifle from its place, and the steel flashed in the moonlight and ceased in a shining line straight at the mountaineer's breast. "Look hyeh, Sherd Raines," she said, in low, unsteady tones, " I know you air religious, 'n' I know as how, when y'u give yer word, you'll do what you say.
I give him a chance fer his life. I know, I know Steve says he didn't. Thar was only us two. Hit looks ag'in' me; but I hain't killed one nur t'other. I let 'em both go. Y'u don't believe me?" He went swiftly toward her, his gun outstretched. "Hyeh, gal! I heerd ye swore ag' in' me out thar in the gyarden 'lowin' that you was goin' to hunt me down yerself if the soldiers didn't.
"So I have heerd so I have heerd." He turned to the messenger. "We shall be ready fer 'em, suh, ready fer 'em with a thousand men one thousand men, suh, right hyeh in the Gap right hyeh in the Gap. Let 'em come on let 'em come on!" Mayhall began to rub his hands together as though the conflict were close at hand, and the mountaineer slapped one thigh heartily. "Good for you! Give 'em hell!"
"Thar's a-plenty o' folks hyeh in the mount'ns that yo' c'n never make see how knowin' their private affairs does the gov'nment any good." "But you don't feel that way, Uncle Eli, surely?" "Wa'al, I don' know. Settin' here talkin' about it, I know it's all right, an' I'm willin' to tell all I know.
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