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Who's major domo of this outfit?" "I'm going to stay right here in this valley to-night. See?" "What's eatin' you, man?" "And every night so long as Melissy Lee stays." MacQueen watched him with steady, hostile eyes. "So it's the girl, is it? Want to cut in, do you? Oh, no, my friend. Two's company; three's a crowd. She's mine." "No." "Yes. And another thing, Mr. Boone.
But Aunt Melissy was a stirring person and she didn't let it take as long as it might have in another family. "She kept Uncle Silas and Winters that was the name of the hired man busier than anybody, as she never quite got over the trip to town and the way they came home.
Alan felt the suave irony that covered this man's amusement, and he resented it impotently. When Melissy came to his support he was the more grateful. "And we all think he did just right in using his common sense, Mr. Norris," the girl flashed. "Oh, certainly." And with that he was gone after her father to help him water the sheep.
"I want to see everything and know everything," she said. "I wish you to see and know about things like these," I replied, "but not such things as Melissa Daggett would show you." "Melissy Daggett, indeed!" cried Winnie. "This beats all her stories. She tried to tell me the other day about a theatre at which a woman killed a man " "Horrid! I hope you didn't listen?"
But we've made it up and agreed to be friends." "He wrote about the young lady who saved his life." Melissy smiled. "Did he say that I was a cattle and a stage rustler?" "He said nothing that was not good." "I'm much obliged to him," the Western girl answered breezily. "And now do tell me, Miss Yarnell, that you and your people have made up your mind to stay permanently."
Round a bend of the road it swung at a gallop, and the instant it disappeared Melissy leaped from the bushes, lifted the heavy box, and carried it to the edge of the ditch. She flew down the sandy bottom to the place where the rig stood, drove swiftly back again, and, though it took the last ounce of strength in her, managed to tumble the box into the trap.
He had shifted his rifle so that it lay in both hands, ready for immediate action. Melissy, horror-stricken, had sat silent, but now she found her voice. "He is unarmed!" she cried to the cowpuncher. He made no answer. Another sound in the brush, close at hand, was distracting his attention, though not his gaze. Just as he whipped up his rifle Melissy sprang forward.
Somehow it hurt her too that he accepted without protest her verdict, appeared so willing to be a stranger to her. Now that the actual physical danger of her adventure was past, Melissy was aware too of a chill dread lurking at her heart. She was no longer buoyed up by the swiftness of action which had called for her utmost nerve.
"Next morning, Aunt Melissy Lovejoy was still dangerous, and at breakfast she broke out at things in general, and said the idea that she, a Glenwood, should live to see a hired man sitting up to a child of hers, especially one who was a Glenwood herself, resembling the family as she did, and being named that way, too; which seemed worse, somehow, than anything that ever happened to a Glenwood before, except her own case; and she gave an awful look at Uncle Silas, who got a little spunky the only time I ever saw him that way and said he thought that Winters was quite a good fellow and would make as good a husband as he had, meaning himself, of course, and Aunt Melissy said, 'Yes, just about, and asked him if he wanted his daughter to have as hard a row to hoe as she had, meaning herself, though it was Uncle Silas who had the hard hoeing in that family, if I could judge.
The younger man stooped and examined a foot-print at the edge of the ditch. It was the one Melissy had made just as she stepped into the rig. "Here's something new, Lee. We haven't seen this gentleman's track before. Looks like a boy's. It's right firm and deep in this soft ground. I'll bet a cooky your nigger never made that track."
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