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Hare's fateful glance, impossible to elude, his strung form slightly crouched, his cold deliberate mention of Naab's trick, and more than all the poise of that quivering hand, filled the rustler with a terror that he could not hide. He had been bidden to draw and he could not summon the force. "Naab's trick!" repeated Hare, mockingly. Suddenly Holderness reached for his gun.
As I started forward, however, Miss Sampson defeated me. Sally once more clung to my hands, and directly we were surrounded by an excited circle. It took a moment or two to calm them. "Then there's a rustler here hiding?" repeated Miss Sampson. "Miss Sampson, I'll find him. I'll rout him out," I said. "Yes, yes, find him, Russ, but don't use violence," she replied.
As Johnny fell, the rustler ducked low and sprang for the door. A gun roared twice in the front of the room and Jerry staggered a little and cursed as he gained the opening, but he plunged into the darkness and threw himself into the saddle on the first horse he found in the small corral.
We know you for a rustler, and that's enough. But it ain't all. Yesterday you gave us surplusage when you shot up three men in Noches. Right now I serve notice that you've reached the limit." "You serve notice, do you?" "You're right, I do." "But not legal notice, Mr. Healy."
Those men go to their graves masked." Again the strange twinge of pain crossed John Caldwell's face. "Ah, I see," exclaimed Hare. Then quickly: "I couldn't recognize the other man anyhow; I don't know him. But Mescal can tell. He saved her and I'll save him. But how?" Every rustler, except the masked ones standing stern and silent, clamored that he was the one to be saved.
He saw himself sitting as a Director at a Bank Meeting an enlarged and glorified Fishberry. Now he was playing Fox and pulling for the Dream to work out. The cold-eyed Custodians up at the main Fortress of Credit began to take notice of the Rustler. He was a Glutton for Punishment, a Discounter from away back, and a Demon for applying the Acid Test to every Account.
"The only way to convict a rustler right now is to kill him and swear that you run up on him changing a brand," Harris said. "I expect that's what we'll have to do." Deane looked at the girl to determine how she met this suggestion. Instead of the shiver of distaste which he rather expected her lips were pressed tight. "A little of that would help Slade too," she said.
Jean climbed to the top of the ridge, descended the opposite slope, made his turn to the left, and slowly worked up behind the point near where he expected to locate the rustler. Long habit in the open, by day and night, rendered his sense of direction almost as perfect as sight itself. The first flash of fire he saw from this side proved that he had come straight up toward his man.
There came an era when a member of that stern straight-shooting breed who blazed the trails for the coming of the statutes wielded the powers of high justice, the middle, and the low. Outlaw and rustler opposed the dominion of this peace officer. Then the cemetery boomed like the young town.
Macdonald checked his horse; she held back her animal to the slow pace of his. Now he offered his hand, as in farewell. "You can assure them at the post that we'll not fire on the soldiers they can come in peace. Good-bye." "I'm not going!" she persisted. "They'll not consider you, Frances they'll not hold their fire on your account. You're a rustler now, you're one of us."
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