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Updated: June 20, 2025
I don't know whether it's best to go down with the trestle with a knife in my gizzard, or to die of that spooky feeling nobody's ever invented a patent medicine for since Peruna." Sergeant Mahon heard the Indian's curious demand with a calmness that surprised even himself. As for Torrance, he was completely bewildered. "I suppose it sounded fishy to you," Mahon reflected.
'Beginnin' mild on a new jag? ast the druggist a second time. 'Hell, no! said yer pard they calls Peruna now from the in-sih-dent, 'ending up strong on an old one. Nope, the three thousan' is county money, consigned to Sheriff Hoover. Jack Payson has jes' lef' with a package from K. C., but it wasn't money. It was a purty, gilt chair a weddin'-present fer the gal he's go'n' to marry."
He was as revengeful as stupid, and could have forgiven McKee's putting the rope around his neck more easily than Buck's joining in the humiliation which saved his life. Rising from the ground and trembling with anger, Peruna turned on the half-breed, saying: "I'll square this deal, Buck McKee." "Losin' vallyble time, Peruna. Git!" was all that his former boss deigned to answer.
I'm goin' to get a leetle ranch and a leetle gal, an' settle down for sure." "I wish you may," said Polly heartily. "You sure acted mighty fine about that Peruna insultin' Mrs. Payson." Harshly as Polly had felt toward Buck, his actions in the recent incidents had softened her feelings toward him. "I admire to hear you say it," said Buck, bowing. "I've played square with women all my life.
With the blood-stained knife he ripped open the cloth and extracted a roll of paper and money. Peruna was kneeling beside the body of his former friend, when a voice drawled: "Drop that knife!" Peruna jumped up with a grunt of dismay to see Slim Hoover sitting on horseback, with his revolver held upright, ready for use. Peruna hesitated: "Drop it!" ordered Slim sharply, slightly lowering the gun.
The poor beast clapped the tail against it, and, with a scream, set off on a wild gallop across the mesa. Peruna hobbled up the river a mile or so, half-waded, half-swam, to the other side, and entered an arroyo, whose course led back near the camp of the Sweetwater outfit. He had been disarmed by the cowboys of his revolver, but not of his knife.
"Anything to oblige," replied Wiggins, who had solemnly entered with Slim into his assumed formality. Wiggins stepped behind Peruna, and reaching forward, removed Buck's gun from the outlaw's holster, which had been empty since Buck, earlier in the day, had taken his revolver after he had insulted Echo. "Anything to oblige," said Wiggins to Slim. Then to Peruna he commanded: "Let's take a walk.
Sage-brush turned savagely upon him: "That'll do for you." Echo walked hastily to Sage-brush's side. She felt her presence might help to avoid the outbreak which she saw could not long be avoided. Peruna had lost control of tongue and discretion by this time. "You'll never see him back in this section again.
Last of all, McKee approached the prostrate man, and made the mistake which was to cost him his life by booting Peruna cruelly. The man was a stupid fellow by nature, and what wits he had were addled by the habit he had acquired of consuming patent-medicines containing alcohol, morphin, and other stimulating and stupefying drugs.
You all know where he is across the line in Mexico why, she's fixin' to make a clean-up now, an' sell out and join him!" Sage-brush reached for his gun, but Echo restrained him. "You " he cried. Buck turned angrily on Peruna. "You keep your mouth shet," he shouted. Peruna subsided at his boss' command, mumbling: "There ain't no female can pull the forelock over my eyes."
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