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"But if he finds us and has to fight us both I shoot as straight as a man, Pierre!" "Straighter than most. And you're a better pal than any I've ever ridden with. But I must go alone. It's only a lone wolf that will ever bring down McGurk. Think how he's rounded us up like a herd of cattle and brought us down one by one." "By getting each man alone and killing him from behind."
"Ma'am, suppose you had a well plumb full of nitroglycerin in your back yard; suppose there was a forest fire comin' your way from all sides; would you like to have people talk about the nitroglycerin and that forest fire meeting? Even the talk would give you chills. That's the way it is with Pierre and McGurk.
The only answer I received was: 'I hope you never find out what he is. Tell me, what is McGurk?" Wilbur considered the question gravely. He said at last: "McGurk is hell!"
Those who are curious about the period which followed during which the title "Le Rouge" was forgotten and he became known only as "Red" Pierre through all the mountain-desert, can hear the tales of his doing from the analists of the ranges. This story has to do only with his struggle with McGurk, and must end where that struggle ended.
But if McGurk were here " "Let him come." "Pierre!" "I mean it." "Then give me one promise." "A thousand of 'em." "Let me hunt him with you." He stared at her with a mute wonder. She had never been so beautiful. "Jack, what a heart you have! If you were a man we could rule the mountains, you and I." "Even as I am, what prevents us, Pierre?"
"I've very little time to look at the living McGurk. Let me look my fill before the end." "Then look, and be done. I've a lady coming to meet me." The other grew marvelously calm. "She is with you, McGurk?" "My dear Pierre, I've been with her ever since she started up the Old Crow." "It will be easier to forget her. Are you ready?" "So soon? Come, man, there's much for us to say.
But men could not forget that in all his work there rode behind Red Pierre six dauntless warriors of the mountain-desert, while McGurk had been always a single hand against the world, a veritable lone wolf.
And Gandil, from the South Seas, growled with averted eyes: "This is the most fool stunt the chief has ever pulled." "Right, pal," answered Mansie. "You take a snake in out of the cold, and it bites you when it comes to in the warmth; but the chief has started, and there ain't nothing that'll make him stop, except maybe God or McGurk."
The musical voice of the boy began: "Morgantown, "R. F. D. No. 4. "SON PIERRE: "Here I lie with a chunk of lead from the gun of Bob McGurk resting somewheres in the insides of me, and there ain't no way of doubting that I'm about to go out. Now, I ain't complaining none. I've had my fling. I've eat my meat to order, well done and rare mostly rare.
The door opened and framed McGurk. He did not start, seeing Pierre. He said: "None of the rest of them had the guts even to bring me the message, eh?" Pierre shrugged his shoulders. It was a mighty effort, but he was able to look his man fairly in the eyes. "All right, lad. How long is it going to take you to clear out of the country?"
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