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Dave, who had heard this talk, leaped on the back of Crow, and followed Mr. Carson and the cowboy who rejoiced in the euphonious title of "Skinny." "What do you mean by retaliation, Dad?" he asked. "Has it anything to do with the Molicks?" "A whole lot to do with them, Dave, I'm afraid," was the reply. "You mean they have diverted some of your water?" "Some of it!
But when he does," he added reflectively, "then he'd better look out." "I hope I sha'n't have started a quarrel," put in Mr. Bellmore. "Don't worry," laughed Dave. "It doesn't take much to start a quarrel with the Molicks. Maybe it'll not amount to anything, anyhow. Say, but he is putting up some fence all right!"
And if the Molicks had a hand in starting it, which seems reasonable to believe, they probably did it out of revenge for the breaking of the dam. But we had a perfect moral, if not a legal, right to do that," the Chicago man said. They rode back slowly, and soon overtook Pocus Pete, who was ambling along on his injured pony.
True, he had to favor the injured member somewhat, but that did not greatly hinder him; accordingly, early on the morning following the conversation of warning, the irrigation man, Dave, Mr. Carson and Pocus Pete set out across Bar U ranch to see what the Molicks were doing.
"Well, since you asked me to be frank," went on Dave, "I will be, and I'll say you haven't missed much by not knowing the Molicks especially Len. I'm after him now, for I suspect him of having tried to do us a serious injury." "Is that so! That's too bad. If I had known that " "Oh, don't let me prejudice you against them," Dave went on." Mr.
"Oh, yes, that's all right," assented Dave, and still his voice had no ring to it. "Mr. Molick is influential all right too much so, at times." "You don't seem to like him," said Mr. Bellmore. "I wish you would be frank with me. I am a stranger in these parts, and I have to depend on residents here for my information, and, in a large part, for my success. I know nothing about the Molicks."
Bellmore had ridden for perhaps a mile when they saw a figure galloping toward them. "Who's that?" asked the engineer, pulling up suddenly. "Dad," answered Dave. "He rode up to investigate. He'll be able to tell us what happened." "It's easy enough to guess," said Mr. Bellmore. "The Molicks have built an intercepting dam, to get even with you and me." And this was exactly what Mr.
"We'll soon be at the ranch," Dave remarked. "The rest of the trail is easy." Dave was thinking of many things as his pony ambled on, followed by Mr. Bellmore's horse. It was strange, the manner in which he had come to help the injured man, and it was stranger still that the latter should be seeking to do business with the Molicks of whom the members of the Bar U ranch had no very high opinion.
Something's got to be done. It may take desperate measures, but if the Molicks have built a dam, to divert your water from here, we'll have to open it; that's all." "Will they let you?" asked Skinny, settling wearily in his saddle. "We'll do it whether they let us or not!" exclaimed the engineer.
Molick may be able to do business with you in the way you want. I am not speaking from the business end of it. Personally I don't like the Molicks," and Dave mentioned the cattle stampede. "Well, if he did that I should say he wasn't a person to be trusted," said the Chicago man. "But still " "Of course. I'm not certain of it," Dave continued. "I'm going to find out about the sawed posts, though.
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