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Updated: June 25, 2025
The men who trooped into the bunkhouse behind him already hated him with a religious intensity; in ten minutes, they might have accepted him as a bunkie! For your true Western cowpuncher, when all is said and done, unites with Spartan stoicism a Spartan keenness of suspicion. It was not hard for the foreman to see the trend of events. Something had roused an ugly mood in Perris.
"It's him now," thought Hervey, "or me later on." But still he could not shoot. "Helpless as a child" why had that comparison entered his mind? He studied the features, very pale beneath the bloody bandage which Perris had improvised when he recovered from his battle with the stallion. He was very young terribly young. Hervey was unnerved.
But by his roving glance, by the sudden outpouring of sweat which gleamed on his forehead, Hervey knew that he had shaken his man to the soul. By playing carefully on this string might he not reduce even this care-free fighter to trembling love of life? Might he not make Red Perris cringe! All cowards feel that their own vice exists in others.
"I sure hope it's easy for you to forget songs," he said. "Songs?" echoed Marianne, and then turned crimson with the memory. "'You see," explained Red Jim Perris, "it's a bad habit I've picked up of doing the first fool thing that comes into my head. Good-bye, Miss Jordan." He was gone.
Betty was so dumfoundered with their impudence that she could not say a word. She did make haste with the dinner, though, and revealed her indignation only in her manner of putting the things on the table. As the boys left her, Robert contented himself with the single hint: 'Betty, Bodyfauld 's i' the perris o' Kettledrum. Min' ye that. Betty glowered and said nothing.
"Most willingly, ma'am; and we 'll be still better pleased if you 'll sit down with us to the Lord's table afterwards." "I gang to the perris kirk, ye ken," said Miss Horn, supposing the good man unaware of the fact. "Oh! I know that, ma'am.
"Well," said Hervey, "then she come right out and told me the truth: she's in love with Perris. She told me so herself!" They gaped at him. They were young enough, most of them, and lonely and romantic enough, to have looked on Marianne with a sort of sad longing which their sense of humor kept from being anything more aspiring.
Even Marianne at times had her doubts, but from a distance and by dint of squinting, she was usually able to reduce the conglomerate to a tolerably harmonious whole. "It's a promise of changes to come," she told herself. "It's a milestone pointing towards new goals." But the milestone set Perris chuckling.
And not till that final signal of success reached her did Marianne give way to the hysteria which had been flooding higher and higher in her throat ever since those words of Hervey had arrested her in the clearing. But once released it came in a rush, blinding her, so that she could not see Perris through her tears as he placed her gently in the chair.
"I knew it, Lew Hervey!" Hervey made a gesture of surrender. "Ask the boys," he pleaded. "Ask them if I didn't try to go easy with him. But he's all teeth. He wants to bite. And we ain't going to put up with that sort of a gent here, I guess! I've ordered him off the ranch. Does that go with you?" "Oh, Jim Perris," cried the girl. "Why have you let this happen!" "I'm sure sorry," said Perris.
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