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Updated: May 14, 2025
He aims to blame this cattle rustlin' an' horse stealin' on to us sheepmen, an' run us out of the country." Gravely Ellen Jorth studied her father's face, and the newly found truth-seeing power of her eyes did not fail her. In part, perhaps in all, he was telling lies. She shuddered a little, loyally battling against the insidious convictions being brought to fruition.
All to once, something cried out, 'He's dead! He's dead! I looked around, but I couldn't see a soul. 'Who is thar? I called. Then I heard a strange whistle, an a rustlin' in the bushes. A minute later I saw a figure in bright yellow standin' out before me on the lake. It seemed to move right over the water in the fog, an' in less than a minute it was gone."
Then he pulled his freight immediate. A week or so later Duncan, of the Double R, rides up to Dakota's shack with a bunch of Double R boys an' accuses Dakota of rustlin' Double R cattle. Duncan had found twenty Double R calves runnin' with the Star cattle which had been marked secret. Blanca had run his iron on them an' sold them to Dakota for Star stock.
It had begun t' get real dark, when I thinks I hears a rustlin' sound in the dead underbrush. I grabbed my axe, an' made up my mind to die fightin', anyway. I knew sooner or later some hungry critter would come along an' find me laid out there nice an' invitin', without a chance o' protectin' myself, and I figgered that arter that the end wouldn't be a long ways off.
Who do yu reckon's doin' all this rustlin'?" "I'm reckonin', not shoutin'," responded the foreman. The proprietor looked out the window and grinned: "Here comes one of yourn now." The newcomer stopped his horse in a cloud of dust, playfully kicked the animal in the ribs and entered, dusting the alkali from him with a huge sombrero.
Suddenly Jean caught a vague flash of thought, as if he had intercepted the thought of another's mind, and he wondered could his brother Bill know anything about this crooked work alluded to by Blue? Dismissing the conjecture, Jean listened earnestly. "An' if it's true it shore makes this difference we cain't blame all the rustlin' on to Jorth," concluded Blue.
"I expect you heard them walkin' about your cabin last night," said he; "and not only panthers, but most likely a bear or two, and snakes rustlin' in the leaves; and, for all I know, coons or 'possums climbin' in and out of the window." "Oh, nothing so bad as that," she replied. "I only thought " "Excuse me, ma'am," he interrupted.
"That is, not until I'm sure I've got the right one." He seized the stranger's arm in a confidential grip. "You see," he explained, "I don't know just where I'm at. There's been a rustler workin' on the herd, an' I ain't been able to get close enough to find out who it is. But rustlin' has got to be stopped.
I remember hearin' somethin' rustlin' along the floor, but I thought it was you." "Oh, blame that old rascal!" exclaimed the Queen, throwing down her paper. "This is the third time he's got away. George never /will/ fasten down the lid to his box properly. I do believe he's /afraid/ of Kuku. Now I've got to go hunt him." "Better hurry; somebody might hurt him."
An' we none of us ever thought of it as rustlin'." Helen could only stare her surprise and doubt at this statement. "Talk's cheap anywhere, an' in the West talk ain't much at all," continued Beasley. "I'm no talker. I jest want to tell my case an' make a deal if you'll have it. I can prove more in black an' white, an' with witness, than you can. Thet's my case.
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