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"I 'laow yu fellers ain't no great shucks at throwin' lead." Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts. My Lady had come over with him. Raw-boned, angular, cloddish but as strong as a mule, he towered over her in a maddening atmosphere of proprietorship.
"How so, sir?" "Cause that's the right of it. I 'laow I've told yu." "I'm called Edna now, by my friends," she vouchsafed, coloring. "Yes, thank you, I've enjoyed the day." Rachael spoke softly, in her gentle English accents. I learned later that she was an English girl, convert to Mormonism. "We Latter Day Saints know that the marriage rites of Gentiles are not countenanced by the Lord.
Daniel's freckled bovine face flushed muddy red; in the midst of it his faulty eyes were more pronounced than ever beady, twinkling, and so at cross purposes that they apparently did not center upon the gambler at all. But his right hand had stiffened at his side extended there flat and tremulous like the vibrant tail of a rattlesnake. He blurted harshly: "I 'laow to kill yu for that. Draw, yu !"
Verily, by his cries and the utter savagery and malevolence of his bombardment, one would have thought that he took actual lust in fancied cruelty. "I 'laow thar's not another man hyar kin do that," he vaunted. There was not, judging by the silence again ensuing. Only "A can's a different proposition from a man, as I said afore," Jenks coolly remarked. "A can don't shoot back."
"Well, out with it," I bade; and my heart began to thump. Possibly I paled, I know that I blinked, the sun being in my eyes. He laughed, and spat over his shoulder, from the saddle. "Needn't be skeered. I ain't goin' to hurt ye. I 'laow yu expected to make up to that woman, didn't yu, 'fore this?" "What woman?" I encouraged; but I was wondering if my revolver was loose. "Edna.
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