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He had that hunger for speech which comes sometimes to men who have lived far from their kind. Peter listened to him vaguely at first; then avidly, with an inner excitement which his mild, expressionless face hid like a mask. "I was getting kinda discouraged when my horse up 'n died," the eater went on.
"Ever since the trouble," he began abruptly, but still in that quiet, matter-of-fact way, "I've been playing a lone hand and kinda holding back and waiting for something to drop. I had that idea all along that you've had this summer: getting hold of the Lazy A and fixing it up so your dad would have a place to come back to.
You know, a fella who’s scouted an’ hunted Injuns an’ popped bush cattle, to say nothin’ of toppin’ wild ones what can look like a nice quiet little pony one minute an’ have a belly full of bedsprings an’ a sky touchin’ back th’ next—a fella who’s had him all that kinda experience an’ a saddlebag full of surprises in his time gits so he can smell a storm comin’ ’fore th’ first cloud shows.
That was foolishness anyhow, what what we did in Blister's office. But I hate to give up the boy on Piceance Creek who was kinda like a brother to me. Do I have to lose him?" There was no need for her big dark eyes to plead with him. His face was working. He bit his lip to keep from breaking down.
Old Jerry drew himself up with an air of injured dignity at that inhospitable slight; he even took one step backward toward the door; but that one step, in the face of his consuming curiosity, was as far as he could force himself to go. "I I kinda thought you might be leavin'. Why, I kinda suspicioned it this morning when I seen you ridin' townward with the Jedge."
"Al can take the outfit and drift," said Tom, as though he were discussing some detail of the round-up. "He knows where and they can scatter, I'll give 'em a horse apiece as a a kinda bonus. I'll have to stay, looks like. Fall round-up's coming on." "Wel-ll," said Lance, throwing an arm over a rail and drumming with his fingers, "I was raised on round-ups.
And she had stuck down in the creek bottom all the spring, so it looked kinda funny." He twisted in the saddle and looked back at the pine-clotted ridge. "There's a Y6 calf up there that's a dead ringer for the one we've been hunting," he observed. "But it's running with a cow that carries Junkins' old brand, So " He looked apologetically into the calm eyes of Billy Louise.
I guess we kinda suspected what was wrong with her." "Wrong?" echoes Waddy. "Why not?" asks Joe. "Four years of the Huns, and then we came blowin' in to lift the lid and let 'em come up out of the cellars. Just naturally went simple in the head, she did. Lots like her, only they took it out in different ways.
But the boy look here, you knew all about this Milly Neal business, didn't you?" "Yes." "Maybe you could tell me," went on the old quack miserably. "I can understand Hal's getting into a an affair with the girl being kinda carried away and losing his head. What I can't get is his his quittin' her when she was in trouble." "I still don't understand," protested the minister.
I ain't had a bite since dinner, and Min's off gadding somewheres " She hurried away, mentally washing her hands of the affair. "Women's got to learn some time what men is," she soliloquized, "and I guess she ain't no better than any of the rest of us, that she can't learn to take her medicine but I ain't goin' to be the one to tell her what kinda fellow she's tied to.
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