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I sez to myself: 'Others might be tempted by a plump, well-lookin' widder, but not Johnnie. Ye see, boys, Johnnie ain't quite the same as you an' me." "Not quite," said Ajax. "Mebbee ye've wondered why I sot sech store by Johnnie. Wal I'll tell ye. Johnnie's paw an' me was brothers an' pardners afore the war.
Corpses are washed down in the spring floods; or the thaw reveals a prospector's shack smashed by a snowslide under which lie two dead 'pardners. Then, by and by, when everybody has forgotten about it, a shaggy man comes out of the wilds with a leather bag; the bag goes to the mint; and the world goes mad. Victoria went to sleep again.
Clement but sure we wor pardners " Clement interrupted. "I know. I'm coming to that. Now answer me. If it hadn't been for me wouldn't you have thrown up the sponge long before you did?" The silence of the little group answered him. "Would any of you ever have worked out the mystery of that ore? Weren't you all anxious to sell for anything you could get?" They were all silent as before.
He bowed to right and left, as to an audience politely applauding, and, lifting the table and its burden, withdrew; while old Bob again set his fiddle to his chin and scraped the preliminary measures of a quadrille. Beasley was back in an instant, shouting as he came: "TAKE your pardners! Balance ALL!"
I heard all about it, an' how ye staked a claim fer yer old pardner, Frontier Samson. It was sartinly kind of ye to think of me." "But I didn't stake any claim for you," Reynolds confessed, while his face crimsoned. "Ye didn't, eh? An' we was pardners, too! Wall, that's queer." "Oh, I am sorry," the young man acknowledged. "But I staked two claims, so you shall have one of them. How will that do?"
Make the most of it and think yourself lucky, but don't think after that to come over ME with your pardners. We have worked together in time past, but we work together no more in time present nor yet future. Let go. Cast off! 'Gaffer! If you think to get rid of me this way .
"Can't you tell me, old man? Ain't we still pardners? Just as we uster be?" He peered through the darkness, roused from his misery in the stillness of the hour, and the night, by the appeal. Dimly he discerned, seated above him on the abutment, a shape outlined against the stars. It threw itself down with hard-striking feet, and came toward him, and he knew it was not a phantom of misery.
"Them's his pardners," he said, indicating the pair on the table. Hopalong turned his head and gravely scrutinized them. Porous was bemoaning the death of Slim Travennes and Hopalong frowned. "Don't reckon he's no relation of mine," he grunted. "Well, he ain't yore sister," replied Tom Lee, grinning. "What's his brand?" Asked the puncher.
Still the possibility of drawing fifty cents kept up the courage of buyers, while Paul's inducements were so far inferior that he found himself wholly distanced. "Don't you wish you'd gone pardners with me?" asked Teddy, with a triumphant grin, noticing Paul's look of discomfiture. "You can't do business alongside of me." "You can't make any money giving such big prizes," said Paul.
"I'm begging your pardon," replied Pan, hastily. "But we'd never been pardners and I hesitated to draw you into a scrap that'll almost sure go to gun throwing." "Wal, we're your pardners now, an' damn proud of it, Panhandle Smith." Silently and grimly they all shook hands on it. Not half a dozen times in his range life had Pan been party to a compact like that.
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