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Condy stirred nervously in his chair. He knew what that meant. He had enough money in his pockets to play that night, and in an instant the enemy was all awake. The rowel was in his flank again, and the scourge at his back. Sargeant stood there, the well-groomed clubman of thirty; a little cynical perhaps, but a really good fellow for all that, and undeniably fond of Condy.
In the party he was pursuing were four men, all of them used to warfare in the open. Unless he could take them at a disadvantage he could not by any possibility defeat them and rescue their captive. His cinnamon pony took the rising ground at a steady gallop. Its stride did not falter, though its breathing was labored. Occasionally the rider touched its flank with the sharp rowel of a spur.
He went back to her, took off her muzzle, fed her, and while she ate her corn, put on the spurs he had prepared expressly for her use a spike without a rowel, rather blunt, but sharp indeed when sharply used like those of the Gauchos of the Pampas. Then he saddled her, and rode her round.
If the wound is unhealthy add a little turpentine. Bathe the parts affected with spirits saturated with alum. Take of red precipitate a teaspoonful, form into a ball, repeat if necessary in 30 minutes. Rowel from the top of the shoulder blade down as far as there is no pealing.
"You are going to give it back to me?" Her wonderment was hardly more than Thornton's. Why should she show this eager excitement, because of a lost spur rowel? "I rode over to give it to you," he answered, swinging her clear of an eddy in the swirl of dancers and to the edge of the crowd. "First, though, I want you to tell me something.
The storekeeper named a price, and Drew bargained. When he left, the three books reposed on the top of his armload of clothing, and a half hour later he dropped them down on a cantina table. Anse came from the bathhouse and sat down in the opposite chair. His booted foot moved, but now rowel points flashed in the sun.
With unscrupulous and fearless precipitation, he gave his horse the necessary direction, and with a smart application of the rowel, plunged down the narrow path toward the spot from whence the alarm had arisen.
As the band broke away from our swinging ropes, a number of them ran afoul of my rope; but I gave the rowel to my grulla, and we shook them off.
Peter had no further use for the rowel. Breakfast was already well under way when he reached camp. The outfit, seated on saddles in a semicircle about the chuck wagon, ate with that peculiar combination of haste and skill that doubtless the life of the saddle counteracts, as digestive troubles are apparently unknown among plainsmen.
Andy, also, was "gifted," in his modest Western way. "A country that can now and then show the papers for a civilization old as the Phenixes of Egypt," he said, in a drawling tone that was absolutely convincing, "ain't what I'd call raw." He decided that a little more hammering right next the rowel was necessary, and bent over the anvil solicitously.
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