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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was Jeff who put the question, and Bud, looking on, saw the steely gleam that lit the man's eyes as he spoke. But Ju's amiability was passing. He was getting tired of a subject which dealt with another man's profit. He rolled his cigar across his mouth. "Here. Guess I best tell you the yarn as we know it. Y'see," he added regretfully, "we ain't learned a heap 'cep' jest the racket of it.
Bob Whitstone unhitched his horse from Ju's tying post. He swung himself into the saddle and rode away, away toward his outland home under the starlit roof of the plains. It was an almost nightly journey with him now, for the saloon habit had caught him in its toils, and was already holding him firmly. His mood was not easy. He resented Ju Penrose. He resented all men of his type.
"Ah, but," said Louis, "I am to go into the army and you are to go to London, to be taken care of by some great lady whom your Uncle knows!" Patsy clapped her hands with sudden pleasure. "Oh, that must be the Princess Uncle Ju's princess then I shall know her. It will be such fun!"
I'm told she was very much shaken." "How did you hear it all?" "From Aunt Ju," said the Captain. "Aunt Ju was there, of course. The Baroness tried to fly into Aunt Ju's arms, but Aunt Ju seems to have retired." Then the quarrel must have been made up between Captain De Baron and Miss Mildmay. That was the idea which at once came into Mary's head.
He called it 'blood money, an' cussed it good an' plenty with an elegant flow. It was his wife. Yes, siree, it was the woman driving the man. She'd located them rustlers by chance only the day before, while he was around Ju's place sousin' rye. When he got home an told her of the reward, she was nigh crazy to git her hands on the dollars. Seems to me ther' must have been a mighty scrap-up.
Ef these things ain't to your notion I don't guess you need the lager I kep." "We'll have the bottled stuff in soak. Long." "Ther's jest one size. Ef that don't suit, guess you best duplicate." There was no offense in Ju's manner. It was just his cold way of placing facts before his customers, when they were strangers.
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