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Updated: June 23, 2025
"You would have given your life and more. You failed to save your father's life, but we shall save his name. Did Slade's Navahos share in the stock stealing?" "Only Pete. Of the others, Slade's four bodyguards alone knew about the Hole. But, once in, any of the punchers can trail us." "No," declared Lennon. "To be sure, there is one of the four left. But what if he does bring the punchers?
Like all punchers, he had been hurt time and again. He had taken dozens of falls. Two broncos had gone down under him with broken necks. A third had twisted its leg in a beaver burrow and later had to be shot. This day he outdid himself. As young Dillon raced behind him along side hills after dogies fleet as blacktails, the heart fluttered in his bosom like a frightened bird in a cage.
Cassidy must do the forcing as far as appearances went, and be clearly in the wrong before the matter could be settled. The next week was a busy one for Elkins, every day finding him in the saddle and riding over some one of the surrounding ranches with one or more of its punchers for company.
There was a bandit taking pot shots at me as I passed the ridge back there." "A bandit on Dry Mesa?" she incredulously exclaimed. "Yes; he pegged at me eight or nine times." The girl smiled. "You probably heard one of the punchers shooting at a coyote." "No," he insisted, flushing under her look. "The ruffian was shooting at me. See here."
The "bootleggers" were supposed to carry pint flasks of bad whiskey in the legs of their topboots, to sell at a fancy price to thirsty punchers on the ranges. "Dunno how that slate come broken on the roof," grumbled Sam. "The feller knowed just where to go to hitch his rope ladder. Goin' to have one of the boys ride herd on the hacienda at night for a while." This was a long speech for Silent Sam.
Then he hesitated; "Yu light it yu've been waiting a long time for this." The balls of smoke which rolled upward were replied to by other balls at different points on the plain, and the Bar-20 prepared to feed the numbers of hungry punchers who would arrive within the next twenty-four hours.
I stopped here to get fresh cayuses." "Yu did right!" replied Wallace heartily. Then raising his voice he shouted to some of his men who were near the corral to bring up the seven best horses they could rope. Then he told the cook to bring out plenty of food and drink. "I got four punchers what ain't doin' nothin' but eat," he suggested.
"But say, you've got a fresh horse; jest take my place here while me and Uncle Bill over there show them ignorant punchers how to cut cattle." He circled rapidly about the herd and, riding out into the runway where the cattle were sifted, the beef steers being jumped across the open into the hold-up herd and the cows and calves turned back, he held up his hand for the work to stop.
Why, I'm a farmer, and I'm married, and I'm in a deuce of a stew because my spuds is drying up on me and no way to get water on 'em without I carry it to 'em in a jug," disclaimed Andy Green hastily. "All I know about punchers I learned from seeing picture shows when I go to town. Now, Mig, here ". "Oh, don't go and reveal all of my guilty past," protested the Native Son.
Only Miss Messiter and her punchers told the truth, and their words were blown away like chaff. From the first moment of darkness Helen had the outlaw leader dogged by two of her men. Since neither of these were her own riders this was done without suspicion. At intervals of every quarter of an hour they reported to her in turn.
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