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I'll be back when I see this Scudder, if the trail ain't wiped out. "So I starts foraging for breakfast. For the honour of old Mojada County I didn't want to seem green to them abolitionists, so every time I turned a corner in them marble halls I went up to the first desk or counter I see and looks around for grub. If I didn't see what I wanted I asked for something else.
But we got there finally; and we seemed to see right away that he was right about it. " `Luke, says I, `as office deputy and from a law standpoint, it don't look to me like this place is properly and legally in the jurisdiction of Mojada County, Texas.
"Skipping over much what happened in the next twelve years, Luke was made sheriff of Mojada County. He made me his office deputy. Now, don't get in your mind no wrong apparitions of a office deputy doing sums in a book or mashing letters in a cider press.
He investigates and finds in the depot a card one of the men had dropped that gives the address of some hombre called Scudder in New York City. " `Bud, says Luke, `I'm going after that bunch. I'm going there and get the man or boy, as you say he was, and bring him back. I'm sheriff of Mojada County, and I shall keep law and order in its precincts while I'm able to draw a gun.
They was two Colt's .45's that I've packed for nine years; and if I don't get 'em back, there'll be more trouble. You can ask anybody in Mojada County about Luke Summers. I don't usually need any other kind of papers for what I do. "I see the judge looks mad, so I steps up and says: "'Your Honor, the aforesaid defendant, Mr.
Luke Summers, sheriff of Mojada County, Texas, is as fine a man as ever threw a rope or upheld the statutes and codicils of the greatest state in the Union. But he "The judge hits his table with a wooden hammer and asks who I am. "Bud Oakley, says I. 'Office deputy of the sheriff's office of Mojada County, Texas. Representing, says I, 'the Law. Luke Summers, I goes on, 'represents Order.
You and me have got to preserve 'em both in Mojada County according to our oath and conscience. The kid shot Pedro Johnson, one of Bildad's most prominent and "'Oh, hell! says Luke. 'That don't amount to anything. That fellow was half Mexican, anyhow." In behalf of Sir Walter's soothing plant let us look into the case of Martin Burney.
He investigates and finds in the depot a card one of the men had dropped that gives the address of some hombre called Scudder in New York City. "'Bud, says Luke, 'I'm going after that bunch. I'm going there and get the man or boy, as you say he was, and bring him back. I'm sheriff of Mojada County, and I shall keep law and order in its precincts while I'm able to draw a gun.
But I was wearied of movement and exotic fancies; so I leaped contentedly upon the firm sands of the village of Mojada, telling myself I should be sure to find there the rest that I craved. When I first saw Chloe Greene she was standing, all in white, in the doorway of her father's tile-roofed 'dobe house.
But, as he couldn't paint pictures, he took it out in rounding up horse thieves and in making Mojada County a safe place to sleep in if you was well armed and not afraid of requisitions or tarantulas.
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