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It was apparent to Warden, as it was apparent to Jordan who poised his pencil over the pad of papers and did not move a muscle that Lawler's wrath was struggling mightily within him. It was also apparent that Lawler's was a cold wrath, held in check by a sanity that forbade surrender to it a sanity that sternly governed him.
Such was the perfection of the organization of which I might now call myself an integral part that the "best" publications contained only the barest mention, and that in the legislative news, of the signing of the bill. I read with complacency and even with amusement the flaring headlines I had anticipated in Mr. Lawler's 'Pilot. "The Governor Signs It!"
The whole was thoroughly commanded from the height west of the river. At the upper end of the bayou there was a strip of uncleared land which afforded a cover for a portion of our men. Carr's division was deployed on our right, Lawler's brigade forming his extreme right and reaching through these woods to the river above.
Lawler's face was expressionless. Except for the flush in his cheeks he seemed to be unaffected by Blackburn's words. His voice was a trifle cold when he spoke: "I'll attend to Hamlin. I'll stop at the Two Bar on my way to Willets. By the time you reach town with the cattle I'll have the deal with Warden clinched." Blackburn nodded, and Lawler wheeled the bay, heading him northward.
For there was something in Lawler's manner, in the steady, unflagging way he rode; in the set of his head and the cold gleam of his eyes, that suggested more of the kind of violence in which both had participated at the Dickman cabin. The sun was low when Lawler and Shorty rode into town Lawler riding ahead, as he had ridden all along; Shorty a few yards behind him, keenly watching him.
I had all the sensations of an aspiring young brave who for the first time is admitted to the councils of the tribe! "It ought to be a popular bill, too," Mr. Schemer was saying, with a smile of ironic appreciation at the thought of demagogues advocating it. "We should have one of Lawler's friends introduce it." "Oh, we shall have it properly introduced," replied Mr. Wading.
But she ain't dangerous, Boss!" Shorty had not been touched by the bullets the outlaws had sent at him. He was energy, personified. He got water, bathed the wound in Lawler's shoulder; bandaged it, and at last grinned widely as Lawler got up, saying he felt better. A little later they went out and mounted their horses.
Lawler's capable right hand descended many times with a force that brought dismal howls from the unlucky culprit so many times and with such force that the girl began to fear that Jimmy would be fatally injured.
She did not resist when he drew her gently away from the door. Standing just inside, she saw him go out to where Warden stood, pale and shaking, looking at both of them. Then she heard Lawler's voice as he spoke to Warden: "Warden, I'm letting you off. Miss Ruth is going to teach school where she's been teaching it. The schoolhouse is your deadline the same as this cabin.
But there was a light in Corwin's eyes which told that he was not unaware of the significance of Lawler's trip to the capital with McGregor. There came a day when Corwin and his brother-delegates got on a train at Willets and were taken to the capital. And there came another day when they returned.
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