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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Best make it fast the cap'n is already thinkin' about pointin' up an' headin' out." Drew loosened his side arms in their holsters. He always hated this business, but it was part of a day's work in the cavalry now. He just hoped that he wouldn't have to do his impressing at gun point.
Nathan was juist busy pointin' oot the place to me in his book when there was a terriple rattlin' oot on the street, an' aff he hookited to see what was ado. He thocht it was a marriage, an' that there micht be a chance o' some heys aboot the doors.
He had hoped for a perfect score. "What was the matter?" he demanded, the ends of his moustache twitching nervously. "Don't know, sir. He kept droppin' back. I swung alongside but I couldn't savvy his signals. He kept pointin' back at his tail. I couldn't see anything wrong, but there's a big 'drome at Vitry and he signaled me that he was goin' down.
At las', poor gal, she died of consumption, and sent for me a month afore she died to stay wid her, an' she often asked me to pray wid her. O how happy she died, in full faith in de 'ligion she foun' on de blessed day massa compel me to preach, little thinkin' he was 'pointin' a meetin' for de Lo'd of hosts instead of little Phil.
The best way to punish a thief, accordin' to my notion, is to keep him everlastingly on the jump, scared to death to show his face anywheres and always hatin' to go to sleep for fear he'll wake up and find somebody pointin' a pistol at him and sayin, 'Well, I got you at last, dang ye. Besides, lockin' Mart up isn't going to bring back Mrs. Gwyn's sheep, is it?"
Have you arrested him?" "Nick's vamoosed," resumed the sheriff; "an' that goes against him. He was sure in Laramie Saturday night even in Brierley's saloon. He knew about Sanson T. Wrangler's pile o' money bein' fixed up in the safe. He wasn't anyways friendly disposed to Sanson T. neither. Thar's a heap of evidence pointin' straight to Nick Undrell.
'Archibald, dear, was five years old or so, sufferin' from curls and the lack of a lickin'. I never see a young one that needed a strap ile more. "'How d'ye do Archie? says Simeon, holdin' out his hand. "Archie didn't take the hand. Instead of that he points at Phinney and commences to laugh. "'Ho, ho! says he, dancin' and pointin'. 'Look at the funny whiskers.
He left the yellow threads from your woollen vest where they would serve as clues pointin' to you an' you alone and at the same time he was most careful to leave no trace or sign of his own identity." "The skunk!" muttered Nick; "the greasy, low-down skunk?" "Say, Kiddie," interposed Rube Carter, "thar's one thing you ain't asked Nick Undrell t' explain.
Ther' ain't a man big 'nough in this world to lift a finger ef you sez 'no' and has got your gun pointin' right. S'long." But Tresler detained him. "Just one moment, Arizona," he said, imitating the other's impressive manner. "I'd just like to say one thing to you, being a new hand around these parts myself, and that's this.
Gazing about, I could scarcely realize this was an abode of criminals, or that I was there a captive. It was the sudden grip of my guard which brought the truth relentlessly home. "This is no movin' picture show," he muttered. "Hustle along thar, in back o' that music box. See the way I 'm pointin'."
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