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"We-ell, if you're game to buy a piano, I'm game to buy books. We staked Black Rim to a school, so we'll do the job right. And by the way, Belle, if you're going to get me to Jumpoff in time for that evening train, don't you think it's about time you started?"
That was all very well, and Black Rim perked its ears, thinking that the case looked bad for Tom. Very bad indeed. But Tom's lawyer proved very adroitly that the AJ man had not been in Jumpoff at the time he claimed. He had been with his own outfit, and if he had ridden past Squaw Butte that night he must have gone out from the ranch and come back again.
Wherefore Mary Hope Douglas, home from two winters in Pocatello, where she had lived with a cousin twice removed and had gone to school and had learned much, was one day invited to teach a school in the Devil's Tooth neighborhood. True, there was no schoolhouse, but there was a deserted old shack on the road to Jumpoff.
At the house-warming dance the Lorrigans had practically cleaned out the crowd and sent them home long before daylight. There had been no serious shooting the Lorrigans had fought with their fists and had somehow held the crowd back from the danger-line of gun-play. But Mary Hope feared there would be a killing the next time that the Jumpoff crowd and the Lorrigans came together.
"Let me tell Mary Hope, dad. I'm going to dance with her, and it will be easy." In the darkness Tom grinned and went on to find Jim Boyle standing in a group of older men on the platform that served as a porch. Jim Boyle was smoking a cheap cigar brought out from Jumpoff by the section boss.
Such fights never are pretty. Lance himself was not a pretty sight, when he had finished. There had been shooting but even in Jumpoff one hesitated to shoot down an unarmed man, so that the bar fixtures suffered most.
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