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Updated: May 11, 2025
I have nothing to do with your purposes or plans except to offer the best advice I know you've rejected it, but I'm with you just the same. It strikes me I can help you by going to Kansas City for you need only Bill in the cove, he can bring you Lahoma's letters. I'll hurry to Lahoma; and if she decides to come back, as I'm sure she will very soon well, she'll need a protector.
But as to the old days, they ain't none left. Them deputies is in the dugout, they're in the cabin I built for Lahoma, they think they owns our cove. Well, they's no place left for me; life wouldn't be nothing, crouching and slinking up here in the rocks. Life wouldn't be nothing to me without Lahoma. I'd have a pretty chance for happiness, now wouldn't I, sitting up somewheres with Bill Atkins!
Carry me to the pen! he'd say, and then what would become of me?" "He might get another letter from your Cousin Martha to help him out of the scrape." Lahoma stared at him, unable to grasp the significance of these foolish words, and Brick, seeking a diversion, explained his purpose of taking Lahoma to the settlements after supplies, and proffered his petition that Bill Atkins accompany them.
The sleet changed rapidly first to snow, then to rain then hail, snow and rain alternated, or descended simultaneously, always driven with cruel force by the relentless wind. At last Lahoma shouted, "It's a regular norther! How're you getting along, Wilfred?" Despite their discomfort, his heart leaped at this unexpected note of comradeship. Had she already forgiven him for not loving Annabel?
"Then that's what you get!" remarked Lahoma severely, staring down at the dark blur on the trail which her imagination correctly interpreted as the horse stretched out on its side. The wind increased in fury. Fortunately it was at their back.
The opportunity to learn about the big world was withdrawn; but the anticipation of one day meeting Wilfred again was as strong as ever. She made no secret of this expectation. Bill Atkins sought to dismiss it effectually. "You don't know about the big world, Lahoma," he declared, "if you think people meet up with each other after they've once lost touch.
Wilfred asked, "But when Lahoma writes, how will you get her letter?" "You or Bill will go for the mail. If a letter comes, you'll take it to that crevice into which Miss Sellimer was drug by that big Injun, and you'll wait in there till I comes, not opening that letter till I am with you.
The young man wondered during all his ten-mile return-trip if Lahoma had fallen ill; and after reaching the log cabin, he kept looking at the slim missive, and turning it over, with vague uneasiness. Brick and Bill had ridden far, and it was dusk before they reached home with a deer slung over one of the horses.
"When you come to me in the cove, a few years ago, I give you a warm welcome, but now I ain't a-coming to you, I'm a-coming to the Law. Where's that there warrant?" The crowd that had been listening to the sheriff's discourse before the arrival of the highwayman, scattered at sight of the drawn weapon all except Lahoma. "Brick!" she cried, "oh, Brick, Brick!"
He come and put up with me and Lahoma when nobody didn't want him, and now, in time of danger, I 'low to get all the help out of him that's there in spite of a begrudging disposition and the ravages of time." "What I want to know is this," Bill interrupted: "Who and what is this Red Kimball? And if you have to hide from him, why ain't you doing it?"
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