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"That's right," Bert concurred. "Th' Ramblin' Kid's got nearly two weeks to get the maverick in shape." "Nothing will be in shape for anything," Old Heck broke in, getting up from the table, "unless we move around and get things ready to begin the beef round-up to-morrow morning. Some of you boys will have to bring in those saddle horses from across the river.
Old Heck, white-faced, but his lips drawn in a smile of satisfaction, stood up in the Clagstone "Six" and watched the Ramblin' Kid his eyes set and staring, his body twitching convulsively, check the filly, swing her around, ride back to the judges' stand, weakly fling up a hand in salute and then, barely able to sit in the saddle, rein the Gold Dust maverick off the track and ride toward the box stall.
No matter how cold the weather, he stood and watched; while down below, the faithful Caroline sat and recorded the observations that he called down to her. Caroline was his confidante, adviser, secretary, servant, friend. She had a telescope of her own, and when her brother did not need her services she swept the heavens on her own account for maverick comets.
As she found her own health and strength failing she began to reflect upon the terrible position in which Lyle would find herself in case of her own death, left alone with Maverick and his two sons, and to save her from such a fate, she had resolved to write this letter, acquainting Lyle with her own history so far as she was able to give it.
One could never have told, by his actions, that within the next few moments he would lose or win fifty thousand dollars. Chuck pulled Silver Tip to a stop in front of the stall where Captain Jack and the Gold Dust maverick were standing. "They're getting ready for the sweepstakes!" he called, thinking the Ramblin' Kid was in the compartment with the horses.
Dat's why I speculated on dat five to one perhaps. I had a t'ousand iron dollars saved up. If I winned I was goin' to buy Delaney's cafe. Who'd a t'ought dat stiff would take a nap in de foist round say?" "It's a hard deal," commented Raidler, looking down at the diminutive form of McGuire crumpled against the truck. "But you go to a hotel and rest. There's the Menger and the Maverick, and "
He sat down forthwith, turned back the sweat-band, moistened it slightly and with the stub of an indelible pencil wrote his name in full. He had ridden range long enough to acquire the habit of branding his property, and in that land of breeze and sunshine he knew the dangers that beset a maverick hat. That night they walked together in the patio for the last time.
"No, he can't," the Ramblin' Kid remarked quietly, " you'd lose your money. There's only one animal on th' Kiowa range that can outrun that Vermejo horse." "What animal is that?" Charley asked. "She's in th' circular corral," the Ramblin' Kid answered laconically. "The Gold Dust maverick?" Bert questioned.
But there was the bartender at the Maverick and besides, it would scarcely have been possible for any man to do what Harboro had done without being seen by numbers of persons looking out upon the street through discreetly closed windows. At any rate, there was talk in the town.
In the summer of 1664 Charles II. sent a couple of ships-of-war to Boston harbour, with 400 troops under command of Colonel Richard Nichols, who had been appointed, along with Samuel Maverick and two others as royal commissioners, to look after the affairs of the New World. Colonel Nichols took his ships to New Amsterdam, and captured that important town.
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