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Robert Macklin smiled and carefully shook his head. "It seems to be impossible for me to remember a thing," he asserted. "Not even the color of her eyes?" asked Ronicky, as he grinned. He went on more gravely: "I'm pretty dead sure that you do remember something about her."
The heavy-footed Gregg would be a poor helpmate on such an errand of stealth. Ronicky turned away from the window, turned back to it and looked once more at the tall front of the building opposite; then he started to get ready for the expedition. The preparations were simple. He put on a pair of low shoes, very light and with rubber heels.
Oh, I think I know him!" "And what are you going to do?" asked Caroline. "The only thing I can do," said the other girl. "I'm going to wait." Far, far north two horsemen came at that same moment to a splitting of the trail they rode. The elder, bearded man, pointed ahead. "That's the roundabout way," he said, "but it's sure the only safe way. We'll travel there, Ronicky, eh?"
Ronicky Doone, Ronicky Doone, was there ever your like under the wide, wide sky? He's brushed Kruger out of his way " "Not entirely," said John Mark calmly, "not entirely, you see?" As he spoke they heard again the unmistakable sound of a rifle shot, and then another and another, ringing from the place where the two hills leaned over the road. "It's Kruger," declared John Mark calmly.
"Lefty, as I feared, has been more chivalrous than wise. He has stepped out into the road and ordered Ronicky to stop, and Ronicky has stopped. Now he is sitting in his saddle, looking down to Lefty, and they are holding a parley very like two knights of the old days, exchanging compliments before they try to cut each other's throats."
"As far as going out with me goes," went on Ronicky, "well, they's nothing I can say except to ask you to look at me close, lady, and then ask yourself if I'm the sort of a gent a girl has got anything to be afraid about. I won't keep you long; five minutes is all I ask. And we can walk up and down the street, in plain view of the house, if you want. Is it a go?"
Fernand," he said, "I've got to have a couple of words with you." "Come into my private room," said Fernand, eager to get the fighter out of view of the rest of the little crowd. He drew Ronicky and Jerry Smith into a little apartment which opened off the hall.
"But suppose that feller got away out of sight, what would you do? Your brand-new pair of Colts is lying away in it!" "He won't get out of sight none," Ronicky assured his friend grimly. "I got another Colt with me, and, no matter how fast he runs, a forty-five slug can run a pile faster. But come on, Bill. The word in this town seems to be to keep right on moving."
Again the leader paused directly before the girl, and, with his feet spread and his head bowed in an absurd Napoleonic posture, he considered every feature of her face. The uncertain smile, which came trembling on her face, elicited no response from Mark. She dreaded him, Ronicky saw, as a slave dreads a cruel master.
Ranchers, fat with the profits of a good sale of cattle, had wagered the whole amount of it in a single evening. As far as large losses and large gains were concerned, Ronicky Doone was ready to handle the bets of anyone, other than millionaires, without a smile or a wince. The trouble with McKeever was that he was playing the game too closely.
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