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Updated: June 6, 2025
He was told the circumstances as far as they were known, but declined to listen to any of the various deductions and surmises. "Deliberate murder and not a chance quarrel," he concluded. "He wasn't even within hollering distance of that rim-rock. Anybody know anything about Starr?" "He's been with us about five weeks," proffered Jed, as foreman. "Said he came from Texas."
It didn't take long for a man who knows Injins to answer THOSE conundrums. The whole thing was a trap for me and I'd walked into it, chuckle-headed as a prairie-dog! With that I makes a run outside by now it was dark and listens. Sure enough, I hears hosses. So I makes a rapid sneak back over the trail. Everything seemed all right till I got up to the rim-rock.
First and last, we rolled and plunged all the way from the rim-rock down to the canon-bed. Then one of the Injins sung out: "Maria!" And I thought of that renegade Mexican, and what I'd heard bout him, and that made me fight harder yet. But after we'd fought down to the canon-bed, and had lost most of our skin, a half-dozen more fell on me, and in less than no time they had me tied.
Straightening his six feet of bone and muscle, the cattleman stood up and stepped to the extreme edge of the rim-rock, with hardened countenance and gleaming eyes. A herder saw him standing there, in open silhouette against the sky line, and with many wild gesticulations pointed him out to his companions.
He went over to the chicken-house, probed with his knife-blade into the plank where was the splintered hole, and located a bullet. He was turning it curiously in his fingers when another one plunked into the boards, three feet to one side of him; this time he was sure of the gun-sound, and he also saw a puff of blue smoke rise up on the rim-rock above him.
The edge of the rim-rock had been sheered by torrential floods, erosion had fashioned the far heights; until once more, with infinite groanings, the earth had risen from the depths. There it stayed, cracking and trembling, as the inner fires cooled down and the fury of the conflict died away; and boiling waters bearing ores in solution burst like geysers from every crack.
Jack went first because, as he said, it was his idea, and he was willing to show his heart was in the right place. He rolled and lighted a cigarette, wrinkled his eyes shut in a laugh, and strolled nonchalantly out of the stable. "Keep an eye on the rim-rock, boys," he called back, without turning his head.
"Still the same reasoning. No matter what I don't know, it's worth to me whatever you-all are willing to pay for it." Then it was that Joe Ladue shamelessly gave over. He led Daylight away from the camp and men and told him things in confidence. "She's sure there," he said in conclusion. "I didn't sluice it, or cradle it. I panned it, all in that sack, yesterday, on the rim-rock.
So we went along, me on the rim-rock and around the barrancas, and Larry in the bottom carryin' of the kid. By and by we came to the ranch house, stopped to wait. The minute Larry hove in sight everybody was out to once, and in two winks the woman had that baby. They didn't see me at all, but I could hear, plain enough, what they said.
Even as they looked, its massive front crumbled into the valley, on the breast of some subterranean vomit, and it lifted its hoarse thunder above the screeching voice of the storm. Involuntarily, Molly shrank back. "Look, woman! Look with all your eyes! Three miles in the teeth of the gale to Crater Lake, across two glaciers, along the slippery rim-rock, knee-deep in a howling river!
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