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Then, after they get through havin' their fun out of you, I'll just waste a shell on you for luck see?" "Sure, Tex, that sounds reasonable," the other rattled on in evident relief. "Fact is, I be'n huntin' fer you ever sense I suspicioned they'd be'n a murder. 'If I c'd only find Tex, I says to myself, I says, 'he'd be worth a hull posse hisself. Jest you go ahead an' night-herd the lady.
Pete was his bunkie. Andy didn't want to fight, but if Gary pulled his gun . . . Bailey got up quietly, and turning his back on Gary told Pete and Andy to saddle up and ride out to relieve two of the boys on night-herd. It was Bud Long who broke the tension. "It's right late for young roosters to be crowin' that way," he chuckled. Everybody laughed except Gary.
They had even denounced him and the sheriff's office as being in collusion against them, and had dispatched Tolleston with orders to refuse service. "Let them get on the prod all they want to," said Don Lovell to Reed and the sheriff. "I've got ninety men here, and you fellows are welcome to half of them, even if I have to go out and stand a watch on night-herd myself.
"When 'd you git here?" Two exceedingly disgruntled young cowboys saddled up and rode out to the night-herd. They had worked all day, and now they would have to ride herd the rest of the night, for it was nearing twelve. As relief men they would have to hold their end of the herd until daybreak. "I told you to shut up," complained Andy. "I wasn't listenin' to you," said Pete, "Yes!
Either Alfred or Tom usually rode night-herd on the ponies merely as a matter of precaution and they felt just a trifle more shut off by themselves and alone than if they had ridden solitary over the limitless alkali of the Arizona plains. This feeling struck in the deeper because Tom had just entered one of his brooding spells.
The ground was sandy, and while the throwing frightened him, never for an instant did it shake his determination. So after darkness had fallen and the men had bedded their cattle for the night, he slipped through the guard on night-herd and lay down among the others.
But it was absolutely necessary to move our own mare band to the nearest corral at Fort Sumner, a distance of thirty miles, which we did that evening. To night-herd them would have been impossible. The title to many of these colts, branded and unbranded, was very much mixed up, and indeed still in the Courts. Nevertheless I prepared next morning to brand them for the Company.
It was the night-herd, the discarded, second-choice mounts of the regiment's officers, a motley band that had served their country through more than one enlistment, and that, hearing the familiar summons some limping, some hobbling had followed the dun cayuse to answer it. Now, nooses were twisted about the noses of the horses. The troopers mounted. The trumpet sounded the advance.
Naw, I didn't promise ter cook hes goose," meeting the other's eyes squarely; "I'm engagin' in anotheh kind o' frenzied fee-nawnce' altogetheh. Yuh hunt yuh leetle baid an' gatheh strength fer to-morrer's stren-u-hossity. I'm goin' on night-herd mahself." Douglass wheeled sharply. "Yuh are not going to ?" Red fumbled in the pocket of his shirt.
Uncle Lance took the remainder of the men and horses and went down the river nearly to Shepherd's, leaving Dan Happersett and three Mexicans to hold and night-herd the trail remuda. Nancrede declined to stay at the ranch and so joined our outfit on the down-river trip.
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