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The stars were shining frostily, in a clear sky, when the Boy crawled out from under his snow-drift in the morning. He built up the fire, quaking in the bitter air, and bustled the breakfast. "You seem to be in something of a hurry," said the Colonel, with a yawn stifled in a shiver. "We haven't come on this trip to lie abed in the morning," his pardner returned with some solemnity.
And as I stood there skannin' the immense crowd below to try to ketch a glimpse of my lawful pardner, all to once I see the folks below wuz laughin' at me. I felt to see if my braize veil hung down straight and graceful, and my front hair wuz all right, and my cameo pin fastened. But nothin' wuz amiss, and I wondered what could it be. Are you tame? Wuz you ketched on the Desert of Sara?
The bicycle fellow that you hired a gun to don't know the fust thing about usin' it, and the next thing you'll hear will be that he's shot his pardner, who's worth six of him." Mr. Sadler sat up very straight in his chair and stared at the guide. "Phil Matlack," he shouted, "what do you take me for? I hired that gun to that young man. Don't you suppose I know what I'm about?"
"That job of yours don't call for any killing we can avoid," he said. "Go ahead and tie me. No use of wasting lead on two men when one will do. It's all right. I trust you, pardner." Eddie's shoulders stiffened. He stood up, looked toward the light and gripped Bud's hand. "I thought they'd be asleep what was home," he said. "We got to ride past the cabin to get out through another water-wash.
I can cook to beat the band when I got somethin' to cook. Help yourself, pardner. What's mine is anybody's that's hungry. I et the other half." "Don't mind if I do. Thanks. Say, you can cook?" "Next to writin' po'try it's me long suit." "Well, I'm no judge of poetry," said Corliss. "This rabbit tastes pretty good." "You ain't a cop, be you?" queried Sundown. "No. Why?"
McTeague took the horn spoon and began rocking it gently in his huge fingers, sluicing the water over the edge a little at a time, each movement washing away a little more of the powdered quartz. The two watched it with the intensest eagerness. "Don't see it yet; don't see it yet," whispered Cribbens, chewing his mustache. "LEETLE faster, pardner. That's the ticket.
"Two grains," he cried. "That'll run five dollars to the ton. Rich, it's rich; it's the richest kind of pay, pardner. We're millionaires. Why don't you say something? Why don't you get excited? Why don't you run around an' do something?" "Huh!" said McTeague, rolling his eyes. "Huh! I know, I know, we've struck it pretty rich." "Come on," exclaimed Cribbens, jumping up again.
And I sez, "My own pardner. I am Josiah Allen's Wife." And as I sez this, bein' very polite, I kinder bowed my head, and he kinder bowed his head too. We appeared real well, both on us. And sez I, "We feel it dretful, the passin' away and expirin' of one of your folks." And sez he, "You allude to Senator Stanford?"
"Who killed his pardner, though?" Curly snarled, for the prisoner's words stung him to the quick. "What do you mean?" Reynolds asked in surprise. "Where is Frontier Samson? What happened to the old man?" Reynolds' eyes grew big with amazement as the meaning of Curly's words dawned upon his mind. So these men believed that he had killed the prospector! His face turned pale at the thought.
"That'll do!" commanded Campbell raising his hand for peace, "there's nothing to be gained by threats. This can all be arranged if you'll just keep your heads and try to consider it impartially. I'm surprised, Mr. Rhodes, that you abandoned your pardner and left him without water on the desert. I've known you a long time and I've always respected you, but the fact would be against you in court.
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