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"'At the beginnin' I'm a heap timid. I suffers from the common eastern theery an' looks on Arizona as a region where it's murder straight an' lynchin' for a place. You-all may jedge from that how erroneous is my idees. Then, as now, the distinguishin' feacher of Tucson existence is a heavenly ca'm.
"They decided to act quick and do any odd jobs of lynchin', claim- jumpin', or such as needs doin'. There's a lot of law sharps and storekeepers in the bunch who figure McNamara's gang will wipe them off the map next." "It was bound to come to this." "They talked of ejectin' the receiver's men and puttin' all us fellers back on our mines." "Good. How many can we count on to help us?"
The lynching would have been an atrocious injustice, but if you did not intend to hang me why should you have taken the trouble to bring me out here?" "'Twasn't no trouble at all. The main thing was to get you out of Wolf River. The lynchin' part was only a joke, an' that's on us. You bein' a pilgrim, that way, we kind of thought " "A what?"
So they admits that there ain't no lynchin'. They tells how, after they'd got out on the bench a piece they got to thinkin' that the demise of Purdy ain't a serious matter, nohow, so they turned him loose. 'Where is he, then? says a county commissioner. 'Search us, replies the culprits. 'We just turned him loose an' told him to vamoose.
"You!" he exclaimed, staring into their faces doubtfully. "What the Sam Hill does this mean?" "Only that we've got back, Timmons. Why this frigid reception?" "Well, this yere is a respectable hotel, an' I ain't goin' ter have it all mussed up by no lynchin' party," the landlord's voice full of regret. "Then this yere gal; she wrote me she'd gone back East." Westcott laughed.
Well, it's a trade, if you throw in the aforementioned articles of outfit I specified, to boot." "Not by a damn sight! You got the best end of it the way it is. Lynchin' is murder!" "So it is," agreed the Texan.
"They always was a lavish lot. I met death in all its most horrid forms. First they stabbed me, then they shot me, then they clubbed me, and so on, endin' up with a lynchin' but I didn't mind much after the first, which hurt a bit. But now that I'm here I'm glad it happened. This life is sort of less responsible than that other.
They's a crowd of cowpunchers gatherin' in Elkhead, an' today or tomorrow they'll be strong enough to take the law into their own hands and organize a little lynchin' bee, savvy?" She shuddered. "It ain't pleasant, is it, the picture of big, good-lookin' Lee danglin' from the end of a rope with the crowd aroun' takin' pot-shots at him? No, it ain't, an' you're goin' to stop it.
"They always was a lavish lot. I met death in all its most horrid forms. First they stabbed me, then they shot me, then they clubbed me, and so on, endin' up with a lynchin' but I didn't mind much after the first, which hurt a bit. But now that I'm here I'm glad it happened. This life is sort of less responsible than that other.
As the affection proceeds, Cherokee sorter shoves back an' allows he'll pass. "'Not any pass! says Enright. 'Any gent who throws off on that thar little Sue girl, she willin', needn't look for any luck but lynchin'. "'That settles it, says Cherokee, 'I saloots this yere lady. "So he ups an' kisses the little Sue girl like she's a hot flat- iron, an' backs into the crowd.
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