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Updated: June 13, 2025
He was speaking of Rufe Tolliver, and at the mention of his name there was a frightened look in the little girl's eyes, when she quickly raised them, that made Hale wonder. An hour later they were riding side by side Hale and June on through the lights and shadows toward Lonesome Cove. Uncle Billy turned back from the gate to the porch. "He ain't come back hyeh jes' fer coal," said ole Hon.
Flesh your blade, my bully Rufe, and bring me some of the meat!" Abruptly Dolores's guests swung around to follow the direction of the old woman's arm, and the girl darted a look of fury at the scene. Out from the point poured Yellow Rufe and a horde of strange mulattos and blacks, and shots crackled from the schooner's rails.
The young people, absorbed in their own affairs, had not noticed it, but Tyke's shrewd eyes had seen that all was not well, and one day when the captain dropped into a chair beside him, he broached the subject without ceremony. "What's troubling you, Cap'n Rufe?" he asked. "Out with it and git it off your chest." "Oh, nothing special," replied the captain evasively. "Yes there is," retorted Tyke.
He stopped and looked out over the hillside where the heat quivered in rainbows from the rocks, and the naked palo verdes, stripped of their bark, bleached like skeletons beside their jagged stumps. "Say, Rufe," he began, abruptly, "I'm goin' crazy." He shook his head slowly and sighed.
"It's the first time," I shouted, "that any of our people ever took directions from Hawk Rufe. As for me, I'm going by the Gauley." And I turned El Mahdi into the wooded road on the left of the turnpike. For a moment the two hesitated, discussing something which I could not hear. Then they rode up out of the Stone Coal and came clattering after me.
Byers's display of impatience was not lost upon Rufe, and it added to the general acrimony of their relations.
Moreover, the Falins, because of a rumour that Bad Rufe Tolliver might come back, and because of Devil Judd's anger at their attempt to capture young Dave, grew wary and rather pacificatory: and so, beyond a little quarrelling, a little threatening and the exchange of a harmless shot or two, sometimes in banter, sometimes in earnest, nothing had been done.
He was nearly dressed, and was feeding the pig the rest of the milk and some apple-peelings. "'Well, well, well, good morning all, I says, hearty and amiable. 'So we are up? And piggy is having his breakfast. What had you intended doing with that pig, Rufe? "'I'm going to crate him up, says Rufe, 'and express him to ma in Mount Nebo. He'll be company for her while I am away.
"Rufe," he said, at last, his voice tremulous with reproach, "if you'd only helped me out a little on that letter if you'd only told me a few things well, she might have let me down easy, and I could've took it. As it was, she soaked me."
Rufe himself was grave and good-natured over his share of blame; he even, if I remember right, expressed regret. But his crew, to my astonishment and anger, grinned from ear to ear, and laughed aloud at our distress. They thought it "real funny" about the stovepipe they had forgotten; "real funny" that they should have lost a plate.
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