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He ran to him calling: "Laddy! Laddy!" "Shore I ain't plugged. It's a damn choya burr. The bullet knocked it in my face. Pull it out!" The oval, long-spiked cone was firmly imbedded in Ladd's cheek. Blood streamed down his face and neck. Carefully, yet with no thought of pain to himself, Gale tried to pull the cactus joint away. It was as firm as if it had been nailed there.
And on Gatty's return, canvas in hand, she whipped the document behind her, and said archly, "I hae something for ye, a tecket fra a leddy, ye'll no want siller fra this day." "Indeed!" "Ay! indeed, fra a great leddy; it's vara gude o' me to gie ye it; heh! tak it." He did take it, looked stupefied, looked again, sunk into a chair, and glared at it. "Laddy!" said Christie.
"How soon do you think they will be here?" asked Fred, who had recovered his breath, and who began to feel something like a renewal of hope, faint though it might be, at the continued silence of their foes. "Can't say, me laddy; but they may come any minute, and we must keep eyes and ears open, and be ready to do the last act in style.
She just said, 'Laddy! Thorne was there, too, an' he was bein' worked over by the camp doctor. I didn't ask no questions, because I seen quiet was needed round that tent. After satisfying myself that Nell was all right, an' Thorne in no danger, I went out. "Shore there was so darn many fellers who wanted to an' tried to tell me what'd come off, I thought I'd never find out.
"No, not yet. He thinks it best not to. We all think so. I'm sorry. Poor Mercedes!" "I knew it. I tried to coax him to send Laddy or even Yaqui. He wouldn't listen to me. Dick, Mercedes is dying by inches. Can't you see what ails her? It's more than love or fear. It's uncertainty suspense. Oh, can't we find out for her?" "Nell, I feel as badly as you about her. I wanted to ride in to Casita.
Gale had learned enough about mineral to know that this was a rich strike. All in a second he was speechless with the joy of it. But his mind whirled in thought about this strange and noble Indian, who seemed never to be able to pay a debt. Belding and the poverty that had come to him! Nell, who had wept over the loss of a spring! Laddy, who never could ride again!
"Is he the young man who came with you?" "Nope. That fellow's the one who saved the girl from Rojas." "Ah! Where is he, Laddy?" "He's in there asleep." "Is he hurt?" "I reckon not. He walked about fifteen miles." "Is he nice, Laddy?" "Shore." "What is he like?" "Well, I'm not long acquainted, never saw him by day, but I was some tolerable took with him.
Ladd again refused to ride one of Belding's whites. He was quick and cold. "Get me a long-range rifle an' lots of shells. Rustle now," he said. "Laddy, you don't want to be weighted down?" protested Belding. "Shore I want a gun that'll outshoot the dinky little carbines an' muskets used by the rebels. Trot one out an' be quick." "I've got a .405, a long-barreled heavy rifle that'll shoot a mile.
Anybody would be apt to think just the same as I did that the boy would be sent to the Injun town in charge of the little party, while the others went on to hatch up some deviltry. Lone Wolf knowed enough to do that, and he had therefore kept the laddy with the big company, meaning that his old friend, the scout, should go on a fool's errand.
"Reckon me an' Jim might as well tie up with your for a spell, Beldin'. We've been ridin' up an' down Arizona tryin' to keep out of sight of wire fences." "Laddy, it's open enough around Forlorn River to satisfy even an old-time cowpuncher like you," laughed Belding. "I'd take your staying on as some favor, don't mistake me. Perhaps I can persuade the young man Gale to take a job with me."
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