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That's it!" the Countess cried, at last. "The McCaskeys backed him up. Of course! And he referred to Sheep Camp to me. He's the sort to do a thing like that. God! What a dog!" After a time she went on: "I'm sorry Pierce struck him; he'll never get over that and it will make it harder much harder." "You think it can be straightened out?"
Then, too, fifty miles over drifted trails at this season of the year was a heavy day's work, and the McCaskeys must be very tired by now, for neither was in the best of condition. In the spring, when the snows were wet and sled runners ran as if upon grease, such a journey would have been no great effort, but in this temperature the steel shoes creaked and a man's muscles did not work freely.
This in itself was enough; testimony from the other men who had likewise recovered merchandise they had missed and mourned merely strengthened the case and further inflamed the minds of the citizens. From the first there had never been a doubt in Phillips' mind that the McCaskeys were guilty.
"You'd of done better if you'd turned on the hollow of your foot that day and romped right back to the old farm," Broad asserted. "You'd never of doubled up with the McCaskeys and you'd still be the blushing yokel you was." "Yes, you're a different kid, now." Both gamblers, it seemed, were in the melancholy mood for moralizing. "Why, we was talkin' to Rouletta about you this morning.
"Simply this Tom and Jerry and the McCaskeys have struck rich pay." "Indeed?" "You lied to me." Laure's lips parted slowly in a smile. "What did you expect? What would any girl do?" She laid a caressing hand upon his arm. "I don't care how much they make or how poor you are " Pierce disengaged her grasp. "I care!" he cried, roughly. "I've lost my big chance.
In his turn he inquired, "What are you going to do with the McCaskeys?" The elder man's face hardened. "I don't know. This talk about hangin' makes me weary. I'd hang 'em; I'd kick a bar'l out from under either of 'em. I've done such things and I never had any bad dreams."
"Joe McCaskey or Frank," Rouletta answered with positiveness. 'Poleon started. Through the gloom he stared incredulously at the speaker. "I'm sure of it, now that I've had time to think," the girl declared. "That's why I ran for you. Now listen! I promised not to tell this, but I must. Courteau confessed to his wife that he and the McCaskeys trumped up that charge against Pierce.
"We want you to shut up! See that you do." The old man's eyes snapped. "If you've got to say something, tell us how there happens to be a trail of rice from this man's cache" he indicated one of his companions "right up to your tent." The McCaskeys exchanged glances. Phillips turned a startled face upon them. "It isn't much of a trail, but it's enough to follow."
The Countess stepped to Pierce's side, inquiring, quickly, "What is this, a joke?" "I thought so at first, but it looks as if I'll be cutting figure eights on the end of a tent-rope." "What makes them think you did the stealing?" "The McCaskeys swear I did. You see, I had no outfit of my own " "Are you broke?" "N no! I wasn't yesterday. I am now."
The latter was watching him with a peculiar expression of hostility frozen upon her features; her dark eyes were glowing, she was sneering faintly. Of all the bystanders, perhaps the two McCaskeys seemed the least inclined to take part in the affair. Both brothers, in fact, appeared desirous of effacing themselves as effectively as possible.
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