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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I wants ter show my paw cash money. Ef he 'lows I'm man enough ter do his business thet's enough, hain't it?" "A rifle-gun in ther la'rel hes done overcome plenty of men afore ye," asserted Halloway with the deep boom of sullenness in his voice. "Ye hain't no army of men, I reckon."
"Thet's a secret meetin' over thar," interposed Lincoln Thornton, grimly, "with rifles in ther la'rel ter take keer of trespassers. They'd stretch ye dead afore ye got nigh enough ter shout out much less reason with 'em. Some things is practical an' others is jest damn foolery." "I took thought of them chances," replied Parish, quietly, "afore I made my proffer."
"Ef ye dies Bud Sellers belongs ter me ter kill an' I won't nowise fail." But at that the wounded man raised a deter rent hand shaken with palsied anxiety. "No no!" he gasped. "Thet's ther sperit I've done sought ter combat all my life ther shot from ther la'rel ther lay-wayin' of enemies. I couldn't rest easy ef ye denied me that pledge."
"So long es he lays thar they'll figger they've done fooled us an' beat us. Ef we take him out, thar'll be men in ther la'rel all the way we've got ter go, pickin' us off in ther dark." "You're right," assented Brent, "but he's been there all day, I guess." "Wa'al then a leetle more hain't goin' ter hurt him none."
There they lay for perhaps two minutes, with ears straining into the silence, neither exaggerating nor under-estimating the menace that might have caused that sound in the underbrush. After a while Rowlett whispered, "What did ye hear?" "'Peared like ter me," responded Maggard, guardedly, "a twig cracked back thar in ther la'rel." Rowlett nodded but after a space he rose, shaking his head.
"Thar comes Bas Rowlett now," suggested the storekeeper, waving his hand toward the creek-bed road along which a mule and rider came at a placid fox-trot. "He's ther feller that fotched ther stranger in, an' shot back at ther la'rel. Belikes he kin give us ther true sum an' amount of ther matter."
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