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So I zigzagged along with a hand-shake and a decorous "Buenas noches" to everybody till I found myself at the end of the line at an open window. Here one of those little oblong tables, across which the Filipinos are fond of talking, separated me from a lady, unquestionably of the white races, who received the distinction of personal mention.
I let him have it straight, and since then we haven't been friends." "I'm glad of that. It makes plain sailing for me. He's got to be run down and caged, Phil. Healy is at the head of all this rustling that has been troubling the Malpais country. His gang stuck up the Diamond Nugget stage, killed Sheriff Fowler, and robbed the Noches Bank."
The tactful courtesy of these rough fellows was perfect. They got the best they had for her of their blankets, dragged a piñon root to feed the glowing coals, and with cheerful farewells of "Buenos Noches" retired around a bend in the cañon and lit another fire for themselves. The girl snuggled down into the warmth of the blankets and stretched her weary limbs in delicious rest.
Both of them rested on the assumption that neither could cover the ground between two given points in a given time. There was one other possible explanation that Healy had been in telephonic communication with Noches before he met Phyllis. But this seemed to Jim very unlikely, indeed. By his own story he had been cutting trail all afternoon and had seen nobody until he met Phyllis.
"I'm going to Noches to see if I cayn't find out something. It don't look reasonable to me that those fellows could disappear, bag and baggage, into a hole and draw it in after them." "What about Brill's story that he saw them at the Pass?" the girl asked. "He may have seen four men, but he ce'tainly didn't see Larrabie Keller.
Two or three passed me in the darkness with a "Buenas noches, senor," to which I mumbled some reply, they doubtless taking me for a neighbor. Two uniformed men, evidently police or soldiers, were lounging in the only shop, and I dared not enter until they were gone.
The narrow shelf of shadow had widened until the floor of the amphitheater was marked off in two halves, one glittering yellow, and one purple. The little boys had come back and were making a robbers' cave to enact the bold deeds of Pedro the bandit. Johnny, stretched gracefully on the sand, passed from "Ultimo Amor" to "Fluvia de Oro," and then to "Noches de Algeria," playing languidly.
On his way to the Jackpot he passed a dozen outfits headed for the new strike. They were hauling supplies of food, tools, timbers, and machinery to the oil camp. Out of the night a mule skinner shouted a profane and drunken greeting to him. A Mexican with a burro train gave him a low-voiced "Buenos noches, señor." A fine mist of oil began to spray him when he was still a mile away from the well.
Everything was in readiness for the coming of the Chief, who would arrive the next day, and the following morning the expedition would start for the field. "Buenos noches, hermano Good night, brother," called Barbara, as the tall surveyor walked away down the street. "Buenos noches," came the answer. Willard Holmes heard and frowned.
This he spread out on the bed in front of him. When at last he looked up he was smiling. "I reckon it's no bluff, Jim. He's a chauffeur, all right, but he only drives out select outfits." "Meaning?" The map lying in front of Keller was one of Noches County. The nester located, with his index finger, the town of that name, and traced the road from it to Seven Mile.
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