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Now, halted, he had turned his pony's head about, watching eagerly the on-coming train. For two weeks the laborers had been working on the roadbed now running over the Man-killer. Ties had been laid and rails fastened down. Apparently the Man-killer had done its worst and had been balked, a seemingly secure roadbed now resting on the once treacherous quicksand.
From the mind of Beaudry the fog lifted. In the savage, malignant eyes glaring at him he read that he was lost. The clutch of fear so overwhelmed him that suspense was unbearable. He wanted to shriek aloud, to call on this man-killer to end the agony. It was the same impulse, magnified a hundred times, that leads a man to bite on an ulcerated tooth in a weak impotence of pain.
I do believe that if I had not protested that you were the greatest medicine-man in the world, and had come expressly to cure her, she would have had you roasted or ripped up by the man-killer or turned adrift in the desert, or something equally diabolical. Your fate is in your own hands now. If you fail to make good your promises, it will be out of my power to help you.
You may either be roasted before a slow fire, hacked to pieces with machetes, or fastened on the back of the man-killer and sent to perish in the desert. Choose." "Just one word of explanation, Mamcuna. I would fain " "Silence! or I will have your tongue torn out by the roots. Choose!" "I choose the man-killer." "You think it will be an easier death than being hacked to pieces. You are wrong.
Then, hanging up their sombreros, they passed on to unoccupied chairs. Just in the act of passing out, Jim Duff had stepped back to admit them. "They're Reade and Hazelton, the very young engineers that the railroad has just put in charge of the Man-killer job," whispered one knowing citizen of Paloma. The news quickly spread about the barber shop.
"And I'm willing enough to take it, sir, if you don't run trains over the Man-killer until the new roadbed has stood tests that I'll put upon it." "It'll cost at least ten thousand dollars to repair the mischief that the scoundrels have done to-night," figured Harry Hazelton thoughtfully.
'I think, she informed him judicially, 'that it will be better for you if I don't lose sight of you in these cattle and mining towns after this. And it would be a better thing for Mr. Howard if he did not frequent such places. 'But you sent him for me! Helen merely sniffed at him. She was wondering if Jim Courtot really were a man-killer? She shuddered.
A terrible deed is done. Two friends ay, brothers in heart have quarreled together. Now one lies buried on the hill, while the other sits, a dreaded man-killer, within his dwelling." Says our chieftain: "He who kills one of our tribe commits the offense of an enemy. As such he must be tried. Let the father of the dead man choose the mode of torture or taking of life.
"He came up to the piazza when he had broken the heart of that other devil, the man-killer, and Pedro was sitting there. Then Pedro told him that he was the one who had shot at him, but he only laughed. He always laughs, this fiend. He knew it already, just as he knows everything. Then it was he said he had saved the boy to whip him." "And that is all?" "Por Dios all" shrugged the lad.
Ellsworth leaped from his seat in the foremost automobile, standing erect in the car and pointing excitedly. "Look there!" he shouted lustily. "What's happening?" Away off, at the further side of the Man-killer, a horseman had suddenly ridden into sight from behind a sand pile.
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