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If he did, why should he torture her so? It was well enough for sound men to risk their lives, but A cheer swelled in the grand stand and died breathlessly away. McWilliams was setting a pace it would take a rare expert to equal. He was a trick rider, and all the spectacular feats that appealed to the onlooker were his.
So it happened that when Missou arrived a few minutes later he found this pair of gentlemen, who were about to flee for their lives, busily inditing what McWilliams had termed facetiously billets-doux. Each of them was trying to make his letter a little warmer than friendship allowed without committing himself to any chance of a rebuff.
McWilliams, the family physician, urged it: above all the expectant bridegroom, the Duke of Hereward; only the bride-elect, Salome, and her chaperon, Lady Belgrade, objected to it. Salome, ill and nervous from the severe shock she had received, could decide upon nothing hastily and pleaded for a short delay.
Whyfor can't I go?" demanded Jim. Bannister, the outlaw, eyed him unpleasantly. "Y'u certainly can so far as I am concerned. I owe y'u one, too, Mr. McWilliams. Only if y'u come of your own free will, as y'u are surely welcome to do, don't holler if y'u're not so welcome to leave whenever y'u take a notion." "I'll try and look out for that. It's settled, then, that we ride together.
Sitting his horse carelessly in the plainsman's indolent fashion, he asked his question of McWilliams in front of the Lazy D bunkhouse. "Nope. When does the shindig come off?" "Friday night. Big thing. Y'u want to be there. All y'u lads." "Mebbe some of us will ride over." He of the polka dot kerchief did not appear quite satisfied.
Sometimes a girl was hanging on his arm, and again he was "whooping it up with the boys"; but in either case the range-rider's savings were burning a hole through his pockets with extreme rapidity. Jim McWilliams and the sheepman Bannister had that day sealed a friendship that was to be as enduring as life.
Liable to happen any day in Wyoming." A second masked man stepped up. He, too was garnished with an arsenal. "What's all this talking about?" he demanded sharply. "We just been having a little conversation seh?" returned McWilliams, gently, his vigilant eyes searching through the disguise of the other "Just been telling the lady that your call is in friendly spirit. No objections, I suppose?"
O'Brien appeared there by his procurators and attorneys, and Kavanagh, O'More, O'Reilly, McWilliams, and others, took their seats in person, the addresses of the Speaker and of the Lord- Chancellor being interpreted to them in Irish by the Earl of Ormond.
McWilliams to chaperon us. But that's an added pleasure." "Would it be an added pleasure to get bumped off to kingdom come?" drawled the foreman, giving a reluctant admiration to his aplomb. "Thinking of those willing boys of yours again, are you?" laughed Bannister. "They're ce'tainly a heap prevalent with their hardware, but their hunting don't seem to bring home any meat."
"Of course," Cowan responded, heartily. "Their loss demonstrates the value of experience. There was no reason at all for the collision between Carpenter and McWilliams. They simply forgot there was anyone else in the air. A tough break." "Any break is a tough one when you don't come back," Larkin said. The Major seemed to see him now for the first time.
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