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"'Ow many times 'ave you seen the girl when she was n't with young Rodaine?" "Very few, that's true." "And 'ow many times 'ave you seen Judge Richmond?" "I have n't ever seen him." "You won't if Mother 'Oward knows anything. 'E ain't able to get out. 'E's sick apoplexy a stroke. Rodaine's taken advantage of it." "How?" "'Ow does anybody take advantage of somebody that's sick?
It fell with him they went down together thirty feet, and there was nothing but Nature to blame for it, in spite of what we three thought. Then, at last, they got a fellow who was willing to work for them in spite of what Rodaine's crowd and it consisted of everybody in power hinted about your father's bad reputation back East and " "My father never harmed a soul in his life!"
Fairchild knew differently, but he said nothing. The gray of Rodaine's countenance told where his courage lay; it was yellow gray, the dirty gray of a man who fights from cover, and from cover only. "Oh, I know," Anita said. "It's it's all right. I I 'm sorry. I did n't realize that I was screaming please forgive me and go, won't you? It means my father's life now."
Squint Rodaine turned upon his questioner. "Guess it's at the foot of the shaft. All I saw was his hat. What 're you so interested for?" The questioner, small, goggle-eyed and given to rubbing his hands, stared a moment speechlessly. Then he reached forward and grasped at the lapels of Rodaine's coat. "He he bought a diamond from me this morning on the installment plan!"
I could see that, the minute Blindeye Bozeman and Taylor Bill began taking your measure. You noticed they left the table before the meal was over? It was to tell Rodaine." "Then he'll fight me too?" Mother Howard laughed, and her voice was harsh. "Rodaine's a rattlesnake. His son 's a rattlesnake. His wife 's crazy Old Crazy Laura. He drove her that way.
That day in court Rodaine had said that the Blue Poppy was a good property and that it was worth every cent of the value which had been placed on it. How did he know? And why ? At least one answer to Rodaine's action came to him. It was simple now to see why the scar-faced man had put a good valuation on the mine during the court procedure and apparently helped Fairchild out in a difficulty.
"You described him." "And you recognized the description." "Maurice! Stop it!" The girl was tugging at Rodaine's sleeve. "Don't say anything more. I 'm sorry " and she looked at Fairchild with a glance he could not interpret "that anything like this could have come up." "I am equally so if it has caused you embarrassment."
That seems conclusive." "If Mr. Rodaine's word counts for anything." The sheriff looked at him sharply. "Evidently you have n't been around here long." Then he turned to the crowd. "I want a couple of good men to go along with me as deputies." "I have a right to go." Fairchild had stepped forward. "Certainly. But not as a deputy. Who wants to volunteer?"
Moreover, in the corner were Blindeye Bozeman and Taylor Bill, hurrying through their breakfast that they might go to their work in the Silver Queen, Squint Rodaine's mine, less than a furlong from the ill-boding Blue Poppy.
"I agree with you this time, Mr. Farrell. I wish to work no hardship on any one. If Mrs. Rodaine's story is true, this is a matter for a special session of the grand jury. If it is not true well, then there has been a miscarriage of justice and it is a matter to be rectified in the future. But at the present, there is no way of determining that matter.
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