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The three returned toward the ranch house; but before saying good-bye, Annixter had secured from Magnus a promise to the effect that, before coming to a definite decision in the matter under discussion, he would talk further with him. Presley met him at the porch. He was going into town with Phelps, and proposed to Annixter that he should accompany them.
"I guess there ain't anything can touch me. Well, Magnus," he said, turning once more to the Governor. "Well, I'll think over what you say, and let you know if I can get the place for you in a day or two. You see," he added, "you're getting pretty old, Magnus Derrick." Presley flung himself from the room, unable any longer to witness the depths into which Magnus had fallen.
His arms moved, and his head, but the great bulk of the man remained immobile in its place, and as the interview proceeded and this peculiarity emphasised itself, Presley began to conceive the odd idea that Shelgrim had, as it were, placed his body in the chair to rest, while his head and brain and hands went on working independently.
"It seems that when he was shot he crawled off into the wheat. They are looking for him there." Presley had forgotten all about the buster and had only a vague recollection of seeing him slide from his horse at the beginning of the fight. Anxious to know what had become of him, he hurried up and joined the party of searchers.
By and by he rose abruptly, turning his head to the north, in the direction of the Mission church of San Juan. "I think," he said to Presley, "that I must be going." "Going? Where to at this time of night?" "Off there." Vanamee made an uncertain gesture toward the north. "Good-bye," and without another word he disappeared in the grey of the twilight. Presley was left alone wondering.
"That would do very well. Thank you, sir." But Cedarquist was still interested in the land troubles of the Bonneville farmers, and took the first occasion to ask: "So, the Railroad are in possession on most of the ranches?" "On all of them," returned Presley. "The League went all to pieces, so soon as Magnus was forced to resign. The old story they got quarrelling among themselves.
The doctor uttered a sharp command and a man ran back to the house returning on the instant with the doctor's satchel. By this time, Presley was close to the wheels of the carry-all and could see the doctor inside the vehicle bending over old Broderson. "Here it is, here it is," exclaimed the man who had been sent to the house. "I won't need it," answered the doctor, "he's dying now."
Hooven and Minna, too for the matter of that country-bred, ignorant of city ways, might easily come to grief in the hard, huge struggle of city life. This suspicion had swiftly hardened to a conviction, acting at last upon which Presley had followed them to San Francisco, bent upon finding and assisting them.
Presley jumped up, and caught Annixter about the shoulders with one arm, gripping his hand hard. This absurd figure, with dangling silk suspenders, lathered chin, and tearful eyes, seemed to be suddenly invested with true nobility.
You need a better dinner than I can give you, and that is just what you are to have." "Have I blundered?" Presley hastened to exclaim. "Did not Mr. Cedarquist mention Friday evening?" "No, no, no," she cried; "it was he who blundered. YOU blundering in a social amenity! Preposterous! No; Mr.
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