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Updated: June 13, 2025
I tell you when these fifty-five new doctors git scattered over the country there'll be consid'able many folks keepin' house under ground. Dick Bean's goin' to stop a spell with Rufe an' Steve Waterman. That'll make one more to play in the river." "Rufus ain't hardly got his workin' legs on yit," allowed Mr. Wiley, "but Steve's all right. He's a turrible smart driver, an' turrible reckless, too.
Pylotte is too cunning to have betrayed us in any way." This was very true, in fact; but Venner himself had blindly done the betraying. "It doesn't matter, Rufe," Kilgore fiercely added. "We must get them both." "That's my idea." "And it's all the easier to get them one at a time." "Right you are, Dave." "Has he discovered Pylotte?" "Surely not!" "Go back there, then," hissed Kilgore.
And the Red Fox stayed to supper, and when Rufe left the cabin that night, a bent figure with a big rifle and in moccasins sneaked after him. The next night there was a tap on Hale's window just at his bedside, and when he looked out he saw the Red Fox's big rifle, telescope, moccasins and all in the moonlight.
We'll go into partnership. I've got a thousand dollars cash capital; and with that homeward-plods atmosphere of yours we ought to be able to win out a few shares of Soon Parted, preferred, in the money market. "So I attaches Rufe, and we go away from Mount Nebo down into the lowlands. And all the way I coach him for his part in the grafts I had in mind.
She found her voice, a hoarse, infantile wheeze. "Tum out'n chist!" she exclaimed, gutturally. "Tum out'n chist!" Rufe turned his tow-head slowly, that he might not disturb the poise of the lid of the chest resting upon it. He fixed a solemn stare on Tennessee, and drawing one hand from the depths of the chest, he silently shook his fist. And then he resumed his researches.
Just then he got the Last Straw a bewildered Rufus with a Letter of Introduction. That took 40 Minutes. When Rufe walked out, the Busy Man fell with his Face among the unanswered Letters. "Call a Cab," he said. "The 'Phone is out of order," was the Reply. "Ring for a Messenger," he said. She pulled the Buzzer and in 20 minutes there slowly entered a boy from the Telegraph Office.
An' I fund the coat a-hangin' thar on the peg, whar I hed lef' it, bein' ez I furgot it when I went off with Rufe ter look at his chickens, an' the pocket war empty an' the paper gone! Nate hev kem ter sarch, too!" Once more he held out his hand. "Gimme the grant. Nate 'lows 'twar you-uns ez tuk it, bein' ez I lef' it hyar." Birt flushed angrily. "I'll say a word ter Nate Griggs!" he declared.
When asked his reason, the witness, who was stupid, had none ready, looked helplessly at Rufe and finally mumbled "fer fun." But it was plain from the questions that Rufe had put to Hale only a few minutes before the shooting, and from the hesitation of the witness, that Rufe had used him for a tool.
They knew that the old man meant to try to rescue Rufe when he was brought back to jail or taken from it to the scaffold, and when either day came they themselves would take a hand, thus giving the Tollivers at one and the same time two sets of foes.
Rufe had killed him a policeman perhaps John Hale and with terror clutching her heart she sprang to the floor, and as she dropped the old purple gown over her shoulders, she heard the scurry of feet across the back porch feet that ran swiftly but cautiously, and left the sound of them at the edge of the woods.
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