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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Why, boys, there ain't nothin' I can't do with a woman." "Is it because of your pretty face or your winnin' smile?" growled the deep bass of Bill Kilduff. "Both!" said Buck, promptly. "The wilder they are the harder they fall for me. I've had a thirty-year old maverick eatin' out of my hand like she'd been trained for it all her life.
He saw Kate smiling into the eyes of Haines; he imagined Bill Kilduff sitting on the back of Satan, controlling all that glorious force and speed; he saw Hal Purvis fighting venomously with Bart for the mastery which eventually must belong to the man. He turned to the wild pair. Vaguely they sensed a danger threatening their master, and their eyes mourned for his hurt.
In the house above him sat Terry Jordan, Rhinehart, and Hal Purvis playing poker, while Bill Kilduff drew a drowsy series of airs from his mouth-organ. His music was getting on the nerves of the other three, particularly Jordan and Rhinehart, for Purvis was winning steadily. "Let up!" broke out Jordan at last, pounding on the table with his fist. "Your damn tunes are gettin' my goat.
For another moment Bart stood whining and staring up to the face of his master. Then he whirled and fled out into the night. In a room of the Salton place, on the evening of the next day after Calder's death, sat Silent, with Kilduff, Rhinehart, and Jordan about him. Purvis was out scouting for the news of Haines, whose long absence commenced to worry the gang.
Nobody can think while you're hittin' it up like that. This ain't no prayer meetin', Bill." For answer Kilduff removed the mouth-organ to take a deep breath, blinked his small eyes, and began again in a still higher key. "Go slow, Terry," advised Rhinehart in a soft tone. "Kilduff ain't feelin' none too well tonight."
Several times they tried to induce Kate to come out and talk with them, but she was resolute in staying alone in the room which they had assigned to her. Consequently, to while away the time, Bill Kilduff produced his mouth organ and commenced a dolorous ballad. He broke short in the midst of it and stared at the door.
"I knew you'd see reason," grinned Silent. "Jest one minute," said Cumberland. "Kate, is Lee Haines one of Silent's gang?" "He is." "An' Dan put him behind the bars?" "Yes." "If Dan takes him out again the boy'll be outlawed, Kate." "Cumberland," broke in Kilduff savagely, "here's your call to stop thinkin' about Whistlin' Dan an' begin figgerin' for yourself."
If she don't want to I'll rough her up a little, an' she'll love me for it afterwards!" "The way she loves a snake!" growled Kilduff. "By God, Silent," said Haines, his face white with emotion, "if Buck puts a hand on her I'll " "Act like a man an' not like a damn fool boy," said Silent, dropping a heavy hand on the shoulder of his lieutenant. "He won't hurt her none, Lee. I'll answer for that.
"I'll tell you what it is when we're on the road," said Jim Silent. "Plenty of time, Haines." "Who'll start first?" asked Bill. "You can, Kilduff," said the other. "Go straight north, and go slow. Then Haines will follow you. Purvis next. I come last because I got here last. There ain't any hurry What's this here?" "I tell you I seen it!" called an angry voice from a corner.
I want that damned wolf of his, Black Bart. Kilduff would rather get into the saddle of Satan than ride to heaven. An' Jim Silent won't never rest till he sees Dan lyin' on the ground with a bullet through his heart. Here's four of us. Each of us want something that belongs to him, from his life to his dog.
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