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"Certainly looks blue for Henry," muttered Lefever, after he had gone over with Pardaloe and McAlpin all of the scant information that could be gathered. "Bob Scott," he added gloomily, "may find him somewhere on the Sinks." At Sleepy Cat, Jeffries, wild with impatience, was on the telephone.
"Does this man know you?" muttered the man addressed as Pardaloe, stamping in the soft dust and shifting slightly a gun harness on his breast. "Pedro knows me," returned Lefever, the other man, "but McAlpin says there is a new man here, a half-wit. They all belong to the same gang coiners, I believe, every one of them. They work here and push in Texas."
He let me into the kitchen after my coaxing for a cup of coffee he's an ornery, cold-blooded guy, that Pardaloe. Old Duke and Sassoon think the sun rises and sets on the top of his head funny, ain't it?" De Spain made no comment. "Whilst I was drinking my coffee " "Who gave it to you?" "Old Bunny, the Mex.
We rode down to de Spain's ranch one night to look up a rustler. That," concluded Pardaloe, "was all Sassoon would say." He stopped. He seemed to wait. There was no word of answer, none of comment from the man sitting near him.
"Some of Satt's boys are trying to get the cattle out of the lower corral." He fingered his hat, looked first at Duke, then at Gale, then at de Spain. "Guess they'll need a little help, so I asked Sassoon to come over " Pardaloe jerked his head indicatively toward the front. "He's outside with some of the boys now." "Tell Sassoon to come in here!" thundered Gale. De Spain's left arm shot out.
One of them was very large, the other not more than half his companion's size. Lefever kneeling over the man nearest the door listened for signs of breathing, and laid his head to the man's heart. Having completed his examination, he went around to the other Pardaloe and Philippi silently watching and looked him over with equal care.
But it is for this I am going to try, and for this I beg of your love the love of which I have been so proud! that you will let me stay with him until I at least learn everything and can bring the whole story to you. If I can bring him, I will. And I shall be safe with him perfectly safe. Gale has been driven away. Pardaloe, I know I can trust, and he will be under the roof with me.
The panels cracked, the stubborn frame gave, and with a violent crash Lefever pushed completely through the locked barrier and threw his flash-light inside. Pardaloe, urging the unwilling Philippi ahead, followed. The room, unfinished under the rafters, was destitute of furnishings, and bore traces of long disuse. Stretched on the floor toward the middle of it, and side by side, lay two men.
Nan, upset but resolute, went on to the barn and asked Pardaloe to saddle her pony. Pardaloe shuffled around in an obliging way, but at the end of some evasion admitted he had orders not to do it. Nan flamed at the information. She disliked Pardaloe anyway, not for any reason she could assign beyond the fact that he had once been a chum of Gale's.
"You don't suppose this boob will try to fight, do you, when he knows Jeffries will burn the shack over his head if another railroad man is attacked in it?" demanded Pardaloe. "The most ruinous habit I have had in life and first and last I have contracted many has been, trusting other people," observed Lefever. "A man shouldn't trust anybody not even himself.
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