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She called out to him in a tone of joyful greeting and hastened forward to offer her hand. The man ignored her welcome and jerked a thumb up at the window from which Lennon was looking. Cochise came galloping to the cliff foot with his band of Apaches and four or five Navahos. All reined their ponies to one side except Cochise.
As the two seized and started to bind Carmena, Slade grinned at her, derisively. "Guess you wish you hadn't," he jeered. "I'll learn you who's boss. How'll you like being let down to Cochise, huh?" The danger to Elsie had horrified and enraged Lennon no less than Carmena. He had been writhing in his rawhide bonds, in a furious struggle to break loose.
"Cochise was hiding in Devil's Chute until you rode out of sight," he quavered. "He demanded tizwin. I convinced him that Slade took away every drop. He then threatened to seize you for his woman and torture Mr. Lennon, if I did not send down Elsie. I postponed the decision until your return." "All right, Dad. We persuaded him to let us come up.
He wrenched himself about to scowl at Lennon. The engineer had straightened and was raising the half-filled canteen to drink. "Hey, you!" bellowed Slade. "Drop that!" The bullying command was more than Lennon could endure. He waved the canteen ironically at the trader, turned half away, and put the opening to his mouth. Slade whipped out his revolver and fired.
"Slade will be angered," he quavered. "I'll lose all all!" "Leave him to me. I'll handle him," promised Carmena. "Remember what you agreed. Jack is to be a full partner." Lennon felt a sudden rekindling of suspicion. "May I ask you to explain all this about a partnership?" he queried. "Why, of course," replied the girl. She drew close to him and lowered her voice.
You promised about Cochise. But Carmena she says Slade that maybe I'll have to marry him unless you have heaps of grit. He's no better than Cochise. But at least he's not an Indian, Mena says." Lennon patted the yellow locks of the girl's back-flung head. "Never fear, Blossom. We will take care of you. Where is Carmena?" "She's still looking for Dad's old pick for you. We found the pan and spade.
Slade said he would leave at daybreak." She abruptly turned away, and made no remonstrance when Elsie offered her lips to Lennon for a good-night kiss. Left alone, he sat down in one of the big chairs and fell to planning how, after the relocation of the copper lode, he would make his escape. He would bring a sheriff's posse to arrest Slade and his fellow criminals.
If they ain't got Carmena a'ready " "But if once he gets in!" cried Lennon. "He must have a revolver!" "Knife too," added Slade. "Wait, though. We'll all put our sights on him. But don't shoot unless he gits half through the door." A glance at the Navahos showed Lennon that they were already taking aim. The trader clearly had some good reason for waiting. Lennon nodded. "Very well," he agreed.
After a last sharp turn, the cañon broadened and flared out in a trough-like valley at the top of a high, cedar-clad, ridge-rimmed mesa. "Wait!" Lennon exclaimed. "Look ahead, Miss Farley all bare and open! Not a bit of shelter until we cross to the trees!" The girl faced about, her red lips twisted in a smile of contempt, but her eyes clouded with disappointment.
He uttered a furious oath as he turned upon Lennon. "You lying skunk!" he bellowed. "This ain't no gold mine!" All the way up the slide Lennon had perceived the copper in the float rock. He was prepared for the trader's outburst. Farley's revolver lay ready in his grasp, behind the sling on his right arm. "Have you what do you call it? gone loco?" he asked.
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