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"No, I guess not," Peaceful agreed in his slow way, holding his pipe three inches from his face while he eyed Peppajee quizzically. "Don't pay to have any truck with 'em while you feel that way about it." He smoothed down his snow-white beard with his free hand, pushed the pipe-stem between his teeth, and went on smoking.
Peppajee, he told himself when he reached his horse, was particularly foolish sometimes. With that in his mind, he mounted and turned Keno's head toward Hartley.
Peaceful, coming out half an hour after with Baumberger at his heels, found him so and made a movement to sit down beside him. But Peppajee rose and stalked majestically to the gate, then turned and confronted the two. "I talk yo'. Mebbyso no talk Man-with-big-belly." He waited impassively. "All right, Jim." Peaceful turned apologetically toward his guest.
Peppajee scowled, and shook his head stubbornly. "Me heap sabe. All same, ketchum yo' ranch. Man-that-catchum-fish kay bueno. Yo' thinkum frien', yo' damfool. Him all same rattlesnake. Plenty foolum yo'. Yo' see. Yo' thinkum Peppajee Jim heap big fool. Peaceful Hart, him all time one heap big damfool. Him ketchum yo' ranch. Yo' see."
And the first night he was here, Peppajee and I saw him down at the stable at midnight, talking to someone. Peppajee kept on his trail till he got that snake bite, and he warned me a plenty. But I didn't take much stock in it or if I did " He lifted his shoulders expressively. "So," he went on, after a minute of bitter thinking, "I want you to keep out of this.
Peppajee touched Grant's arm, and turned back, skirting the poplars again until they were well away from the house, and there was no possibility of being heard. He stopped there, and confronted the other. "What for you no stoppum stable?" he questioned bluntly. "What for you no stoppum ranch, for sleepum?" "I go for stoppum Hicks' ranch," said Good Indian, without any attempt at equivocation.
"Where's Rachel?" he asked suddenly, the words following involuntarily his thought. Peppajee sucked hard upon his pipe, took it away from his mouth, and knocked out the ashes upon a pole of the wikiup frame. "Yo' no speakum Rachel no more," he said gravely. "Yo' ketchum 'Vadnah; no ketchum otha squaw. Bad medicine come. Heap much troubles come. Me no likeum. My heart heap bad."
Good Indian glanced at him sharply. "Now, you fellows' listen to me," he said. "This thing is partly my fault. I could have prevented it, maybe, if I hadn't been so taken up with my own affairs. Old Peppajee told me Baumberger was up to some devilment when he first came down here. He heard him talking to Saunders in Pete Hamilton's stable.
Baumberger" he saw Peppajee's eyelids draw together "tell men to go away. Tell Peaceful he fight those men in court. You sabe. Ask Great Father to tell those men they go away, no wash gold on ranch." He waited. There is no hurrying the speech of an Indian. Peppajee smoked stolidly, his eyes half closed and blinking sleepily.
"Peppajee Jim told me to come. He said you're a 'heap smart squaw, all same mans." "Item: One pound of red-and-white candy for Peppajee Jim next time I see him." Miss Georgie laughed but she also sat down so that her face was turned to the window. "Are you in urgent need of a heap smart squaw?" she asked.
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