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Thanks to the reading aloud of Lahoma's letter, he had learned of Gledware's presence in the city which he had known years before as Westport Landing. He went thither unbewildered by its marvelous changes, undistracted by its tumultuous flood of life for his mind was full of his mission; he could see only the blood following the blade of his knife, heard nothing but a groan, a death-rattle.
"Lahoma's not here?" Wilfred asked anxiously. "Not now, nor for some time," answered Brick. "I wish," interposed Bill glumly, "that when you're going to talk about me, Brick, you'd begin with Bill and not be dragging me in at the tail-end of what concerns other people. I reckon, Wilfred, you just traveled here to take a look at the country where you used to herd cattle?" "That wasn't my reason.
"He won't let me take no care of him," complained Brick, as he conducted Wilfred to the dugout. Wilfred cast a longing glance toward the cabin, and again he thought Lahoma's parlor door quivered. He even stopped in the path; but Willock went on, unconscious, and he was obliged to follow. "It's a strange thing," remarked Brick, as he descended the hard dirt steps, "how Lahoma has acted on me.
They felt the justice of her claim that out West only western men were needed; they excused her for thinking Brick a model type; but let any one else hold him up before them as a model!... Lahoma's manner changed; it grew deeper and more forceful: "Men, I want to talk to you about this case will you be the jury?
I've been thinking him a real man. I guess I'm still to see what I'm looking for," added Lahoma, shaking her head. "We'll let it go at that," muttered Bill who was anxious to turn Lahoma's mind from thoughts of Wilfred. "We'll just go ahead and look for new prospects." "Not till I make a remark," said Willock, laying aside his pipe. "Honey, do yon know what I mean by a vision?
Wilfred pressed forward on foot, leading Lahoma's horse; and, partly on account of their unequal position, partly because of awkward reserve, no more was said for a long time. She bent forward to shelter her face from the stinging blast while he trod firmly and methodically on and on, braced slightly backward against the wind, which was like a hand pushing him forward.
The stage, which was built after the manner of the old-fashioned omnibus, afforded no opportunity of moving to and fro in the selection of seats, hence, when Red Kimball discovered Lahoma's identity the exact moment of the discovery was marked by his violent start she was safeguarded from his approach by her proximity to a very large woman flanked by a thin spinster.
Perhaps it was the irony of justice that he should be threatened by the one act of bloodshed which had saved Lahoma's life. If he must be hanged or imprisoned because he had not, like the rest of the band, given himself up for official pardon, it was as well to suffer from one deed as from another. But it would be better still, as in the past, to escape all consequences.
Come in, pard this used to be Lahoma's boudoir before we built that cabin for her. See the carpet? Don't tell ME you're a-walking on it, and not noticing! See that little stove? I brung it clear across the mountains from a deserted wagon, when I was young. Two legs is gone and it's squat-bellied, and smokes if the wind gives it a chance; but I wouldn't trade it for a new one. Set on this bench.
I knows all I wants to know, which if little or much is enough for me. And I wouldn't be fit to go with you out into the big world and cut a figger in it, which couldn't be no figger but a figger naught. And Atkins who knows more than me, he says the same." The tears were in Lahoma's eyes. She looked from one to the other, her little face deeply troubled.
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