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Andrew Lanning was both simple and credulous; but it must be remembered that he had led a sheltered life, comparatively speaking; he had been brought up between a blacksmith shop on the one hand and Uncle Jasper on the other, and the gaps in his knowledge of men were many and huge. The prime necessity now was speed to the northward.
You gents can have the rest and split it up." "A nice set of sparklers," nodded Clune, "but there's plenty left to satisfy me." "What you think," declared Scottie, "ain't of any importance, Joe. It's what the chief thinks that counts. Is it square, Lanning?" Andrew flushed at the appeal and the ugly looks which La Roche and Clune cast toward him.
"A sneak always lies well," he replied, as he sneered at Lanning. He went on, while Andrew sat shivering with passion. "And any fool can get in a lucky shot now and then. But, when I'm out of this, I'll hunt you down again and I'll plant you full of lead, my son! You can lay to that!" The hard breathing of Andrew gradually subsided. "It won't work, Dozier," he said quietly.
"Why should I look again?" "To see the reward," said Andrew bitterly. He laughed again. "I'm Andrew Lanning. Ever hear of me?" It was obvious that she had. She blinked and winced as though the name stunned her. "Lanning!" she said. "Why, you ain't much more'n a kid. Lanning! And you're him?" All at once she melted. "Slide off your hoss and come in, Andy," she said. "Dogged if I knew you at all!"
The quiet in that room was a deadly, living thing. And then she saw, on the sofa at one side of the place, a human form under a sheet. "Charles!" whispered the girl. She put out her hand and touched his shoulder, but she could not take her eyes off that ghastly dead thing. "They they he's dead Andrew Lanning! Why did you bring me here?"
He unfolded the sheet and read in a precise, rather feminine writing: Dear Lanning: We are, in a manner, sneaking off. I've already said good-by, and I don't want to tempt you again. Now you're by yourself and you've got your own way to fight. The boys agree with me. We all want to see you make good. We'll all be sorry if you come back to us.
One of their forwards is good and the other isn't, and one of our guards is weak. On the whole, we're about evenly matched." "Fine chance Mechanicals'll have with you in the game," said Dick. "The only thing I'm afraid of," said Sahwah, with a thoughtful pucker, "is Marie Lanning; you know, Joe Lanning's cousin. She's to guard me and she's a head taller."
He and Winbush were no doubt working together, and the man's story was no doubt part of an arranged scheme. It seemed to me that the immediate recognition of the second scent was suspicious. The man was probably prepared for the test. I thought it likely that Quarles had met his match this time, and I did not expect to see Richard Lanning at the station. However, he was there with Mr. Nixon.
"I'm the unwelcome guest, I'm afraid," said Andrew. "I'm the nephew of Jasper Lanning. I guess you'll be remembering him?" "I'll forget my right hand sooner," said the big, red man calmly. But he kept on looking steadily at Andrew. "Well," said Andrew, encouraged and at the same time repulsed by this calm silence, "my name is one you've heard. I am " The other broke in hastily.
Glover were really a competent man, he could not have held his position as chief engineer of the system, but Doctor Lanning explained that frequently Western men of real talent were wholly lacking in ambition and preferred a free-and-easy life to one of constant responsibility; others, again, drank and this suggestion opened a discussion as to whether Western men could possibly do more drinking than Eastern men, and transact business at all.
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