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Updated: June 25, 2025
De Spain, who was at Calabasas, knew Nan would not be alarmed should her uncle not return that night. But early in the morning a messenger from McAlpin rode to her with a note, telling her of the accident. Whatever his vices, Duke had been a good protector to his dead brother's child.
The long ride to Calabasas went fast as the debate swept on, and the vivid shock of her strange experience recurred to her imagination. She drew up before the big barn. Jim McAlpin was coming out to go to supper. Nan asked for her package and wanted to start directly back again. McAlpin refused absolutely to hear of it. He looked at her horse and professed to be shocked.
"The water it takes to cover you, Henry," sputtered McAlpin, "would run a locomotive from here to Medicine Bend." "I have to wait till everybody in town goes to bed before I can get a dew started on the faucet," averred Sawdy. "Sometimes I have to set up all night to take a bath. Look at the unreasonableness of it, Belle," he went on indignantly.
Armed, McAlpin would have been no man to affront his deadly skill; he now faced him unarmed. Stone, leaving his right hand hooked by the thumb in his belt, rested his left elbow on the bar.
Farwell, and you take it for truth, when Jerry begins to maudle about repentance, it's just before a debauch. I know the signs." Just then Bounder raised his head and howled. "None of that! Off with yer!" shouted Mary, making for the dog with nervous energy. "Once," she went on, her lips twitching, "my man and Michael McAlpin had a good one on the officers.
She would be hungry, possibly faint in the heat and dust, when she arrived. He returned to McAlpin: "Where can I get a good cup of coffee when the stage comes in?" "Go right down to the inn, sir. It's a new chap running it a half-witted man from Texas. My wife is cooking there off and on. She'll fix you up a sandwich and a cup of good coffee."
"Hot ride, sir; a hot day," commented McAlpin, shaking his head dubiously as he called a man to take the horse, unstrapped de Spain's coat from the saddle, and followed the manager into the office.
"He's all there, full sixteen ounces to the pound," was Reddy's emphatic endorsement. "I've seen some crack fullbacks in my time, but none to top him. He's got the weight, he's got the speed, and as for nerve, begorra! Did ye note the way he toyed with that big rhinoceros, McAlpin?" "What he did to him was plenty," laughed Hendricks.
They faced each other at close range. "I I am afraid of you!" At this McAlpin threw back his head and roared with laughter, releasing her at the same time. With freedom Priscilla gained a bit of courage and a keen sense of the necessity of calmness. She did not move away from Jerry-Jo, but fixing him with her wide eyes she asked: "Are are the family here here in Kenmore?"
Sawdy volunteered to save time by fetching Belle Shockley from the hotel, and while McAlpin and Lefever inspected and discussed the horses for the condition of which McAlpin, as foreman of Kitchen's barn, was responsible Kate stood, listener and onlooker. Everything was new and interesting. Four horses champed impatiently under the arc-light swinging in the street, and looked quite fit.
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