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As he went out in the street to mount his horse the marshal met him again, and Mose, irritated and hungry, said sharply: "See here, pardner, you act most cussedly like a man keeping watch on me." The marshal hastened to say, "Nothing of the kind. I like you, that's all. I want to talk with you in fact I'm under orders from the princess to help you get a job if you want one. I've got an offer now.
The engagement my pardner had spoke on wuz to meet a Chinaman that wuz comin' to see Robert Strong that evenin'. Robert had met him in California, and Josiah seemed dretful anxious to git home so as to dress up for his reception. And I sez, "There is time enough; I shouldn't think it would take you more than two hours to wash your hands and change your neck-tie."
"Wot might hev bin the general gait o' your temper, pardner?" he said in a hoarse whisper. "Don't know. I reckon that's jest whar the incompatibility kem in." "And when she hove plates at your head, wot did you do?" "She didn't hove no plates," said Abner gravely; "did she say she did?" "No, no!" returned Byers hastily, in crimson confusion. "I kinder got it mixed with suthin' else."
The lookout's a gun. I know him. So is that guy at the wheel. Pony's pardner packs a gat; and that guy standin' over by the wall, smoking is drawin' down reg'lar pay for jest standin' there, every night. 'Sides, they ain't enough stuff in sight to take a chanct for. We ain't organized for this kind of a deal." "Then what's the use of hangin' around?"
Finally he turned to his seat mate. "You likely think I never rode in the cars before," he said, "but the fact is, pardner, I just got out of prison this mornin' and it does me good to look around. It is goin' to be mighty tough, though, facin' my old-time friends. I s'pose, though, you ain't got much idea how a man feels in a case like that."
But thar's a feller in my mess kin read everything but the big words, and I like t' git a paper for him to read to the rest o' we'uns." "Was your pardner badly hurt by mine's shot?" asked Si. "No. The bullet jest scraped the bone. He'll be likely to have a stitch in his side for awhile, but he's a very peart man, and won't mind that. I'm s'prised he didn't lay your pardner out.
Oh, nothin'. I was just thinkin' it was goin' some for a meat-eater that hit Dawson in an ice-jam, with no grub, one suit of underclothes, a pair of mangy moccasins, an' overalls that looked like they'd been through the wreck of the Hesperus. Pretty gay front, pardner. Pretty gay front. Say ?" "What do you want now?" Smoke demanded testily. "What's her name?" "There isn't any her, my friend.
So he tried to catch the stuff as it flies by; but I just puts on a little more curve, an' that makes him madder still, an' he ups an' comes for me. "Then we all knocks off breakfast an' goes for another canter. But it don't do no good, 'ceptin' that we all gets puffed out agen. After a bit, the bear stops to ketch his breath, an' then me an' me pardner goes on with our breakfast.
"Indeed." One fact the detective noted, the room had no window, and was evidently entirely within the building. Not a sound from without, or from the barroom penetrated the place. Jounce locked the door, an unnecessary precaution, the detective thought, and threw himself into one of the chairs. "Sit down, pardner. We kin confab here without bein' disturbed, you bet yer buttons."
Disregarding the sounds which continued to come from below, Rathburn stood, gun in hand, regarding Sautee with a grim countenance and a cold look in his keen, gray eyes. "I saw that truck driver held up, Sautee. I was on a ridge below the divide. I saw the tall man in the black slicker, his pardner, an' the boy.
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