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Updated: May 14, 2025
Then when th' affair comes off yu'll generally find they's been settin' on a door-knob." "Did yu ever see a hen leave th' walks of peace an' bugs an' rustle hell-bent across th' trail plumb in front of a cayuse?" Asked Buck. "They'll leave off rustlin' grub an' become candidates for th' graveyard just for cussedness. Well, a whole lot of men are th' same way.
His voice took on a rapt eagerness. "An' them leaves rustlin'. It's all like some kind of music that nobody's ever played an' nobody ever can play." Ham's face, looking down from the commanding height of his sixteen years, hardened. "Do you figure that Pap sends you to school to set out here and listen at the leaves rattlin'?" was the dry inquiry.
"'No, says Moore, "t'ain't quite sech ancient hist'ry. It's stage coaches. Thar's a passel of people down yere as allows you've been rustlin' the mails. "Old Man Rucker, who keeps the O. K. House, is away when Moore rounds up his party. But Missis Rucker's thar, an' the way that old lady talks to Enright an' the committee is a shame.
But I ast him how it come he'd on'y located 'em twelve hours after I'd set up a ten thousand dollar reward. Y'see, they'd been rustlin' around fi' years. Wal, to cut a long yarn, I got the whole thing out of him in quick time he was like a kid in my hands. He hadn't located that camp, he wasn't goin' to touch a cent of them ten thousand.
"We hates to accuse a white man of a deed like this," said Jake Rowlett, a time-gnawed old Indian fighter, "but Thornton made a statement to us under oath. He recognized Peter Doane and Peter would of scalped him as well as shot him only he heard somebody rustlin' the brush an' got away." "Peter Doane!" Caleb pressed a shaken hand to his bewildered forehead. "Peter Doane but I can't credit that!
Cherokee an' me, by a sing'lar coincidence, is discussin' the topic of 'probity' that a-way, although our loocubrations don't flourish none concernin' stage rustlin'. Cherokee is sayin': "'Now, I holds that trade what you-all might call commerce, is plenty sappenin' to the integrity of folks.
He tore down them crazy, slantin', rotten old housen, and made a park of that filthy hole, a lovely little park, with fresh green grass, a fountain of pure water, where the birds come to slake their little thirsts. There is green, rustlin' boughs for the birds to build their nests in. Cool green leaves to wave over the heads of the children.
"I wudn't try then," he said shortly. And Mahon remembered that the Inspector had advised the same. When they had been riding a long time the half-breed spoke wistfully. "I wasn't rustlin', Boy. All I did was to take from Duchy and Bilsy some o' the horses they rustled. If I hadn't, yuh wudn't 'a' seed 'em ever again.
"In a few minutes I heard the rustlin' sound again, only this time nearer. I twisted as far around as I could, and then I saw what was makin' the noise. Not thirty feet from me one o' the biggest painters I ever laid eyes on was creepin' stealthily along, sizin' me up with his glistenin' green eyes as he went.
It's someone else. I'm askin' you to hire me to find out whoever it is. I'm wantin' a free hand. I don't want anyone askin' me any questions. I don't want anyone orderin' me around. But if you want the men who are rustlin' your cattle, I'm offerin' to do the job. Do I get it?" "You're keepin' right on workin' for the Two Diamond," returned Stafford.
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