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"Willard," she said, her lips white and stiff, "there must be no double-dealing between you and me. Tom Chavis told me yesterday that you are interested in a waitress in Lazette. Is that true?" He started, flushed darkly, and then smiled blandly. "Tom Chavis is romancing, my dear. If there is a waitress in Lazette I have not seen her." He seized her by the shoulders and spoke earnestly.
And therefore, in a month to the day, knowing his habit of punctuality, Sheila had come to Lazette for him, having been driven over from the Double R by one of the cowboys. She saw the station agent now, beckoning to the driver of the wagon, and she went over to the edge of the station platform and watched while the trunks were tumbled into the wagon.
Dry Bottom merchants were beginning to realize that it deserved their support, and with few exceptions they openly began to voice their opinions that the editor would "make good." The advertisements began to take on a livelier tone and the Lazette Eagle grew more sarcastic.
If it wasn't so soon after after what has happened I would " He smiled, and Barbara knew he meant what he had said to her many times about there being a parson in Lazette, a hundred miles or so northeastward and of his eagerness to be present with her while the parson "tied the knot." His manner had always been jocose, and yet she knew of the earnestness behind it.
"You tell her anything you want to tell her, my boy," whispered Uncle Jepson. "An' if I don't miss my reckonin', she'll listen to you, some day." Masten's note to Ruth contained merely the information that he was going to Lazette, and that possibly he might not return for two weeks.
"Wait," he had said, and the words flamed before her eyes "wait until I go. Wait a month. The West is a new country; anything, everything, can happen to you out there alone." "Nothing can happen," had been her reply. "I will go straight from Lazette to the Double R. See that you telegraph instructions to Duncan to meet me.
He saw Uncle Jepson looking at him searchingly; and he caught Ruth's quick, low question to Aunt Martha, as he was letting her gently down in a chair: "Where is Willard?" "He came in shortly after dark," Aunt Martha told her. "Jep was talking to him, outside. He left a note for you. He told Jep that he was going over to Lazette for a couple of weeks, my dear." Randerson saw Ruth's frown.
Like as not if you'd tell him he'd get some riled and come right over to see me, yearning for my blood. And then I'd have to shoot him up some. And that would sure be too bad you loving him as you do." "I suppose you would shoot him like you shot that poor fellow in Lazette," she taunted, bitterly. "Like I did that poor fellow in Lazette," he said, with broad, ironic emphasis.
The sheriff's posse three men whom he had deputized in Lazette and himself had ridden hard over the twenty miles of rough trail from Lazette, for Duncan had assured Allen that he would have to get into action before Dakota could discover that there had been a witness to his deed, and therefore when they arrived at the edge of the clearing near Dakota's cabin at midnight, they were glad of an opportunity to dismount and stretch themselves.
Certainly, if he had served as sheriff of Colfax County, he had had some excellent experiences, for from reading the Lazette Eagle, Hollis had acquired considerable knowledge of the character of the inhabitants of Colfax. "I think we need you," said Hollis simply. "But I imagine you will have to concentrate your efforts upon one ranch only the Circle Cross.
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