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Updated: June 17, 2025
One of the Roubideau jokes was that Polly was the mother of the family and her father and Jean two mischievous little boys she had to scold and pet alternately. Temporarily she took the two cowpunchers into her circle and browbeat them shamefully with an impudent little twinkle in her eyes.
He knew that Goodheart would pursue, but he knew, too, that the odds were a hundred to one against capture if he could put a mile or two between him and the Roubideau ranch. A man could vanish in any one of fifty draws. He could find a temporary hiding-place up any gulch under cover of the matted brush. Therefore he turned toward the mountains.
Was it likely that anything she could say would have weight with him? For the present the girl gave up her resolve to convert him to a more Christian point of view. The sun had sunk behind the cañon wall when Pierre Roubideau arrived with a travois which he had hastily built.
A faint smile lay in her eyes. "You used to think Lee was the only girl, didn't you?" "Well, I don't now. I like Polly Roubideau better." Abruptly she flung at him a statement that was a question. "You didn't kill Mr. Webb." "No. I never killed but one man without givin' him an even break. That was Peg-Leg Warren, an' he was a cold-blooded murderer." A troubled little frown creased her forehead.
Kinder take it easy an' drift the herd down slow so as to let the cattle put on flesh. Billie an' the kid can join us soon as they're fit to travel." The decision was announced on the porch of the Roubideau house. Its owner and his daughter were present. So was Dad Wrayburn. The Texan old-timer snorted as he rolled a cigarette. "Hm!
No need of pushin' on the reins, but I reckon the old man isn't payin' us fifty dollars a month to hold down the Roubideau porch," said Prince regretfully. "No, we gotta light a shuck," admitted Jim, with no noticeable alacrity. He was in no hurry to leave himself, even if he did not happen to be in love. Billie put his fortune to the touch while he was out with Polly rounding up some calves.
Before he could steady himself the bed of the dry creek rose up and hit him in the head. Pauline Roubideau Says "Thank You." Jimmie Clanton slid back from unconsciousness to a world the center of which was a girl sitting on a rock with his rifle across her knees. The picture did not at first associate itself with any previous experience.
What I say is that some day we'll all be brave enough to go without our hog-legs. I'll be glad when that day comes." "An' when you two went up Escondido Cañon after the Mescaleros that had captured Miss Roubideau? I heard Dad Wrayburn tellin' all about it at supper here one night. Well, what if you hadn't had any guns?" persisted Bud.
Pauline released him, dabbed at her eyes, and ran, choking, into the house. "You've got to be in trouble to make a real hit with Miss Roubideau," suggested the lank deputy, a little bitterly. "I'll take those bracelets off now, Clanton. You can wash for supper." Polly saw to it, anyhow, that the prisoner had the best to eat there was in the house.
On the main street of Los Portales one evening Billie met Pauline Roubideau. She came at him with a direct frontal attack. "I've had a letter from Jim Clanton." The sheriff did not ask her where it was post-marked. He did not want any information from Polly as to the whereabouts of her friend. "You're one ahead of me then. I haven't," answered Prince. "He says he didn't do it." "Do what?"
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