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Updated: June 13, 2025
A few minutes later Alicran Skeel entered the office. "I thought I heard a gun," he drawled, his calm eyes embracing everyone in the room. "That man!" bubbled Luke Tweezy, shaking his fist at Racey. "That man tried to kill Lanpher! I call upon you not to let him leave the premises until I can go to Farewell and swear out a warrant for his arrest."
"Then for the benefit of the gents who wasn't here," said Racey, smoothly, "I don't mind saying that I told Lanpher to go after his gun, and he did, and I did." "He's a liar," gibbered Lanpher. "Alicran, ain't you man enough to take care of Racey Dawson?" Alicran nodded composedly. "I guess him and me would come to some kind of an agreement provided I was shore he needed taking care of.
"Put yore gun away," he continued to Racey. "I ain't gonna hurt you." "Now that's what I call downright generous of you, Lanpher," Racey declared, warmly. "I'd shore hate to be hurt. I shore would. But if it's alla same to you, I'll keep my gun right where she is if it's alla same to you." "That'll do, Racey. Stop this rowing. I won't have it."
And so far nobody ain't proved Doc Coffin and Honey Hoke and Luke Tweezy are liars." "Of course we know they are," protested Racey. "Not legally. You gotta remember that knowing a man is a liar is one thing, and being able to prove it is another breed of cat." "Then they ain't nothing to be done short of rubbing out Lanpher and Tweezy?" "And what good would wiping out either or both of them do?
And up to now I can't see that Jack Harpe has made a move, not a move." "But " "Lanpher and Tweezy wasn't in the bet," insisted Mr. Saltoun. "It was Jack Harpe, and you know it. 'If Jack Harpe don't start trying to get Dale's ranch away from him and run cattle in on you inside of six months you don't have to pay us. Them was yore very words, Racey. I got 'em wrote down all so careful.
But I ain't none shore he does. Looks like it was a even break to me the word of you and Luke against his and Swing's. And what's fairer than that I'd like to know?" "Alicran!" squalled Lanpher. "I'm telling you to " "Yo're all worked up, that's whatsa matter," Alicran assured him. "You don't mean more'n half you say.
"Say, Rod, I'd take it as a favour if you and Tile and Bill would sort of freeze round the bunkhouse till after I'm through with Lanpher." "Shore," said Rod. "Tweezy's in the office, too, I guess." Racey nodded, and started his horse toward the office.
"You can take it she's both," Racey told him. "You hear that, Luke?" Lanpher turned to Luke Tweezy. "Threatenin' my life, huh?" "Shore," nodded Luke Tweezy. "Actionable, that is. Mustn't threaten a man's life, Racey. Against the law, you know." Racey moved to one side and leaned his back comfortably against the wall. "Against the law, huh, Luke?" he said nervously. "Then I can be arrested?"
"See yuh later, Luke," the stranger flung over his shoulder to Luke Tweezy as he passed on. He and Lanpher headed diagonally across the street toward the hotel. It seemed odd to Racey Dawson that Luke Tweezy by no word or sign made acknowledgment of the stranger's remark. Racey tickled his mount with the rowels of one spur and stirred him into a trot.
"You can," Luke Tweezy declared with evident relish. "That is, you can if Lanpher wants to make a complaint." "You hear, Lanpher?" asked Racey, still more nervously. "You wanna make a complaint, huh?" Lanpher had not failed to note the nervousness of Racey's tone. Now he licked his lips again. He felt quite cheerful of a sudden.
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