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It's the first time we've ever been able to lay a hand on one of Dunlavey's pluguglies, an' we was figgerin' on makin' an example of him." Hollis met Norton's grim gaze and smiled. "I want to thank you all of you, for guarding my interests so zealously," he said. "There is no doubt that this man richly deserves hanging that is, of course, according to your code of ethics.
The house wasn't a quarter full, and after he'd paid these two pluguglies their guarantees, which they insisted on having before they'd so much as go into the ring, he was just about cleaned out. So there you are!" Sally had listened with dismay to this catalogue of misfortunes. "Oh, poor Fill!" she cried. "How dreadful!" "Pretty tough."
But I'm kind of used to it myself. Had to pull the same game off over in Colfax County when I was runnin' for sheriff the first time. It worked, too, because the folks that was mixed up in it knowed I wasn't ringing in any bluff." He looked at Dunlavey with a level, steady gaze, his eyes gleaming coldly. "If you think I'm bluffing now, chirp for some one of your pluguglies to bust into this game.
Gieger might have averted the threatening clash with a judicious use of soft, placating speech. But it pleased him to bluster. "We are deputies, acting under orders from the court. We are after a murderer, and we mean to get him!" he said, coldly. "Deputies! Hell!" Barkwell's voice rose, sharply scornful and mocking. "Deputies! Crooks! Gun-fighters! Pluguglies!"
He's tried to steal all our land; he's corrupted our court, nearly guzzled Judge Lindman to death, killed Braman an' Barkwell says the bunch of pluguglies he hired to pose as deputies, has killed Clay Levins an' four or five of the Diamond K men. That's plenty. We'd admire to give in to you. We'll do anything else you say. But this has got to be done."
Do you know what Corrigan done, yesterday? He got thirty or so deputies pluguglies that he's hired an' hid 'em behind some flat-cars down on the level where they're erectin' some minin' machinery. He laid a trap for 'Firebrand, expectin' him to come down there, rippin' mad because they was puttin' the minin' machinery up on his land, wi'out his permission.
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