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They reached the sled, and Ba'tiste pointed to the seat. "In there," he ordered. "Ba'teese will walk. Ba'teese afraid too close." And then, in silence, the trip to town was made, at last to draw up in front of the boarding house. Houston called to a bystander. "Is the 'phone working to Montview?" "Yeh. Think it is. Got it opened up yesterday."
Then came the clink of handcuffs. A moment later two figures had departed in the dusk, the sheriff and Fred Thayer, bound for the jail at Montview. Houston straightened, to find a short, bulky form before him, Henry Blackburn. "Well?" questioned that person. "I guess it's up to me. I I haven't got much chance against that." "What do you mean?"
At first he threatened that he would go to the sheriff at Montview, and for several days he came to me, telling me that this was the last chance that he would give me if I didn't let him have his share. I played him for time. Then he began to beg small amounts of money from me, promising to keep still if I gave them to him.
Judge Bardley gave it in Montview about an hour ago, and we came over by automobile." "But why?" "Why?" the sheriff stared at him. "When you give a man a lease, you have to live up to it in this country." "But I've given no one " "Oh, show it to him, sheriff." Thayer came angrily forward. "No use to let him stand there and lie." "That's what I want to see!" Houston squared himself grimly.
But Houston searched the woods in vain. There were no supporters following the three men, no deploying groups seeking to flank them. A moment more, and Ba'tiste, with a sudden exclamation, allowed his cant hook to drop to the ground. "Wade!" "Who?" Houston came closer. "Eet is Thayer and Wade, the sheriff from Montview, and his deputy. Peuff! Have he fool heem too?"
I guess this kept up for two or three months, the amounts getting larger all the time. At last, I wouldn't stand it any longer. He threatened me again, and then, suddenly, one day disappeared. I hurried to Montview, thinking of course that he had gone there, hoping to catch him on the way. But no one had seen him.
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