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Updated: June 13, 2025
"War that Satan?" asked Rufe abruptly. "Whar?" exclaimed Birt, startled, and glancing hastily over his shoulder. "Down yander by the lick," plained Rufe. "Naw!" said Birt, scornfully, "an' nuthin' like Satan, I'll be bound!"
"Here it is, better than I can tell it," said Mr. Phelps, handing me a printed proclamation: TEN THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD. RUNYON RUFE, Banker and Company Promoter, wanted for gigantic frauds in connection with the Invincible Building Society, the Greater London Finance Syndicate, Suburbs Limited, and other undertakings.
"An', anyway, you've been smart at every point with your suggestions, an' helped us out as we went along. You started things with your eagerness to look into Manuel's box an' you put the cap sheaf on when you jest now gave Cap'n Rufe that last pointer. "An' now," Tyke went on, when they had sobered down a little, "let's get down to brass tacks.
Wirt Falin agreed, and that's how they made peace to-day. Now Rufe says he won't go at all truce or no truce. My wife in thar is a Tolliver, but both sides comes to me and I keeps peace with both of 'em." No doubt he did, Hale thought, keep peace or mischief with or against anybody with that face of his.
But when I mentioned that we were waiting for Rufe, the people shook their heads. Rufe was not a regular man any way, it seemed; and if he got playing poker Well, poker was too many for Rufe.
Of course he would not have relished the papaw, and only begged as a matter of habit or perhaps on principle; but he was given no opportunity to sample it, for Rufe hardly noticed him, being absorbed in dubiously watching Andy Byers, who was once more at work, scraping the hide with the two-handled knife.
The table-top on which he stood was slippery where Rufe Terwilliger had doubled up beside him and rolled to the floor. Others were falling, too, stumbling and clutching vainly for support, but Billie's slim white figure still stood unwavering beside her father and Thode turned grimly to his task.
"The orneriest ones of the whole bunch. An', believe me! this is the wo'st crew of dock scrapings I ever set eyes on," growled Tyke. "Ditty did a lot of talking in the boat I watched 'em through my glass. Them six are his close friends, Cap'n Rufe. They've laid their plans " "Holy mackerel!" exclaimed Captain Hamilton. "What are you saying, Tyke?"
"Well, you fellers see how many of my steers you can ketch, then," said Creede, "and I'll move them sheep myself leastways, me and Rufe." "All right," assented Reavis resignedly, "but you want to hurry up. I saw a cloud o' dust halfway to Hidden Water this afternoon."
June hesitated and Rufe leaned one elbow on the table, and the light in his eyes beat with fierce intensity into the girl's eyes into which came a curious frightened look that Hale remembered the same look she had shown long ago when Rufe's name was mentioned in the old miller's cabin, and when going up the river road she had put her childish trust in him to see that her bad uncle bothered her no more.
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