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There was a glint in Rathburn's eyes as he uttered the last sentence. Instead of flying into a rage, Mannix laughed. "Don't kid yourself," he said grimly. "You're not the man who held up this truck driver." He gave Rathburn back his gun, to the latter's surprise. Then he waved toward Rathburn's horse. "Go ahead," he said, smiling. "General eastern direction, wasn't it?
"He was hungry and he's welcome. What's the matter with you?" "I guess you'd be surprised if you knew as much as I do," the boy boasted. "I guess you'd be surprised all right. I do." "I've been surprised more than once at things you knew," the girl said with a laugh. "Yes, but I guess you'd be surprised all right if you knew who he is," cried the boy, pointing at Rathburn.
Furthermore, the Casual Passerby a blood relative of the Innocent Bystander would have been apt to notice that this act of Disston's seemed automatically to accelerate the movements of the embroidery needle and the chamois buffer, and speed up the rocking chairs. Propinquity was not doing all that Mrs. Rathburn had anticipated.
The clerk hastened to carry out his orders and jammed package after package of bills into one of the largest of the coin sacks. Both men were white-faced and frightened. They did not try to delay the proceedings. Rathburn looked dangerous; and what was more sinister, he went about his nefarious business in a cool, calm, confident manner.
I didn't figure it would do any good to tell Mannix I'd taken in the show, an' I was on my way to the desert. I'd be there now if Carlisle hadn't overstepped the mark in that Red Feather place." Sautee pricked up his ears. "You let them arrest you," he said. "Why " "Because I knew Mannix didn't know who I was an' didn't have anything on me," said Rathburn quickly.
I ain't buyin' dogs these days." "Yer don't have ter buy this one," observed Rathburn meaningly. The other glanced up with sharp eyes. "Humph! Bite?" he snapped. Rathburn shook his head. "Sick of him," he returned laconically. "Like his room better'n his company." "Humph!" grunted the other. Then to the dog: "Come here, sir, an' let's have a look at ye!"
Rathburn looked long in this direction, with a dreamy, wistful light in his eyes. Close at hand vegetation appeared upon the slopes of the hills. His gaze darted here and there along the ridges below him, and his parted lips and eager attitude showed unmistakably that he was familiar with every rod of the locality in which he found himself.
Something tells me I've got to give you a chance, and if I knew what tells me this I'd wring its neck!" He stepped close to Rathburn and looked him straight in the eye. "Take one of Mallory's horses. He's got some good ones. I give you ten miles in any direction. If you can make it it's your candy. But remember, Rathburn, I'm going to try to stop you!"
But the pair of you figured too many points when you thought I wouldn't catch on." "That was what your proposition was to be, was it?" asked Rathburn pleasantly. "Rob the bank? Why, I didn't need a gang to rob the bank, Eagen, an' I didn't have anybody in with me. The trouble with you is that you've got too much imagination."
"Well, now, sheriff, that's right kind of you," Rathburn drawled, concealing his astonishment. "Don't thank me," snapped out Mannix. "This gentleman asked me to set you loose." For the first time Rathburn looked squarely at the other man in the office a thin man, with a cropped mustache, beady eyes, and a narrow face.
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