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Three hours later he drove in before the stopping-house, and, hitching his team to the tree, left them a little hay to while the time. The "resteraw" was empty. Other breakfast guests had come and gone. "Oh, Bela!" he cried. She stuck her head in the other door. Her expression was severely non-committal. "Bela, my stomach's as empty as a stocking on the floor! I feel like a drawn chicken.
Most of the men indulged in the secret hope that Sam would stay away. He was a game kid, they were now ready to confess, but altogether too touchy; there was no getting along comfortably with him. Had he not almost put the resteraw out of business? It was as Bela said if both the hotheads kept out of the way, they might have some peace and comfort there. Sergeant Coulson had compunctions.
One afternoon he was delayed across the bay, and as he approached the "resteraw" the fellows were already gathering for supper. Sam listened to the jovial talk and laughter coming through the door with a sore and desirous heart. "Why can't I have a good time, too?" he asked himself rebelliously. But he did not pull up. A few yards beyond the shack he met Stiffy and Mahooley riding to supper.
This affected Sam more than the first item. In spite of him, a red tide surged up from his neck. He scowled angrily at having to betray himself before them. They laughed derisively. "I suppose you mean Bela," he said stiffly. "The settlement is free to her, I guess. She's no more mine than the other." "Opened a resteraw in the shack below the company store," Big Jack went on.
Since Bela had secured the sanction of the Church upon her enterprise, Beattie felt that the responsibility was no longer his. He gladly gave her her way. The astonishing news spread up and down the road like lightning. Bela Charley was going to open a "resteraw." Here was a new and fascinating subject for gossip. Nobody knew that Bela was in the settlement. Nobody had seen her come.
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