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He looked up at them, deliberated, and started to move away. "Where are you going now?" Saxon called. "Oh, I've got an idea," he replied noncommittally, and walked boldly away beyond the circle of the firelight. Saxon sat with the blankets drawn closely under her chin, and admired his courage.
Won't take but a minute to show yuh." He gave the slight head tilt and the slight wink of one eye which, the world over, asks for a secret conference, and started off around the corner of the house. The sheriff followed noncommittally but he kept close at Starr's heels as though he suspected that Starr meant to disappear somehow.
Four kegs he counted, and lifted out one. "An' how many did YOU lick, Mr. Nolan?" he grinned over his shoulder as he started for the door. Nolan laughed noncommittally. "Perhaps I'm luckier at picking my bootleggers," he retorted. "If you carry the right brand of bluff, you can keep the skin on your knuckles, Ryan. This beats making it, at any rate."
"Er had a few set-to's with him, yourself, now and then?" He smiled, but even his smile was gravely direct. Again there was a heavy silence before Young Denny replied. Then, "Maybe," he said, noncommittally. "Maybe I did." The throbbing silence in that room went all to bits.
Verrian bowed, with a sense of something offensive in her words which he could not logically feel, since it was a matter of business and was put squarely on a business basis. "I should be very glad," he said, noncommittally. "She was sure from the first," Mrs. Westangle went on, as if there were some relation between the fact and her request, "that you were not the actor.
Amusement twinkled in his eyes at the personal remark and her utter unconsciousness of having said anything at which by any chance he could take offense, but he replied noncommittally: "I've put away my share, Miss." "I can always pick 'em out. Nearly all the freighters and cow punchers that stop here get drunk." He looked at her quizzically.
He spoke uncompromisingly, almost contemptuously, she thought. "You evidently don't stay here because you like it," she said. "My work is here," he returned noncommittally. She wondered a little, but something held her back from pursuing the matter. She walked several paces in silence. Then, "I wish I could find work here," she said, in her slow deep voice. "It would do me a lot of good."
"Maybe you did see it, and maybe you didn't," Morgan was saying to Mike noncommittally, "but there's some pretty fair shots in this room, which I'd lay fifty bucks no man here could hit a dollar with a six-gun at twenty paces." "While they're arguin'," said Bill Kilduff, "I reckon I'll hit the trail." "Wait a minute," grinned Jim Silent, "an' watch me have some fun with these short-horns."
"I am as much at liberty as I am likely to be," he replied noncommittally. His visitor wistfully and somewhat suggestively eyed a chair, but made no move to be seated. He felt that, no matter how the interview was to close, punctiliousness should begin it. "Be seated," said Mr. Hurd, briefly.
Boyle," before he went in and took his seat where Miss Bridger had placed him and he doubted much her innocence in the matter elbow to elbow with the Pilgrim. "How's shipping coming on, Billy?" inquired the Pilgrim easily, passing to him the platter of roast beef. "Most through, ain't yuh?" "The outfit's on the way in," answered Billy, accepting noncommittally the meat and the overture for peace.
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