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Yet stay have we not some Jedwood men in our troop?" "Plenty of Turnbulls, Rutherfords, Ainslies, and so forth," said Balveny. "Call me an inquest of these together; they are all good men and true, saving a little shifting for their living.
There was no question that Meldrum's finger had been itching on the trigger of his revolver for a week. One of the young Rutherfords had been beside him day and night to restrain the man. Dave was due for another surprise when Ned presently departed after a whispered conference with Meldrum and left his sister in the hut. Evidently something important was taking place in another part of the park.
On the death of the father there remained golden-haired Kirstie, who took service with her distant kinsfolk, the Rutherfords, and black-a-vised Gilbert, twenty years older, who farmed the Cauldstaneslap, married, and begot four sons between 1773 and 1784, and a daughter, like a postscript, in '97, the year of Camperdown and Cape St. Vincent.
"The ver-ry same Hal and Buck and a brood of young hellions they have raised." "But why should they kidnap Mr. Dingwell? If they had anything against him, why wouldn't they kill him?" "If the Rutherfords have got him it is because he knows something they want to know. Listen, and I'll tell you what I think."
I certainly understood from the late James Rutherford, Esqr., of the Customs, Edinburgh, a cadet of the Rutherfords of Edgerston, and through his mother, a female descendant one of the nearest of the Edmonstones of Corehouse, that it was in consequence of the great exertions of an Edmonstone of Corehouse that the guilty Cranston was first concealed, and afterwards enabled to escape abroad.
He recognized Beaudry with a snarl of rage and terror. Except one of the Rutherfords there was no man on earth he less wanted to meet. The forty-four in his hand jerked up convulsively. The miscreant was in two minds whether to let fly or wait. Roy did not even falter in his stride. He did not raise the weapon in his loosely hanging hand.
"Did I mention the Rutherfords?" he asked, looking straight into the eye of the Western Express man. "I reckon you didn't hear me quite right." Elder laughed a little. He was a Westerner himself. "Oh, I heard you, Mr. Dingwell. But I haven't heard a lot of things I'd like to know." The cattleman pushed the sack with his toe. "Money talks, folks say." "Maybe so.
Deviltry had to be done under cover now. Moreover, Dave was in the peculiar situation of advantage that the outlaws could not kill him until they knew where he had hidden the gold. So far as the Rutherfords went, he was just now the goose that laid the golden egg. He stood chatting with another cattleman for a few moments, then drifted back to the rear of the hall again.
Then he crawled back to the grove, slipped through it, and crept to the shelter of the boulder bed. It would not do for him to return down the cañon during daylight, for fear he might meet one of the Rutherfords coming to relieve Ned. He passed from one boulder to another, always working up toward the wall of the gulch.
There was in his mind no intention of trying to recover the gold himself, but if he could get away in time to let the Rutherfords know the situation, he knew that Dave would have an uneasy life of it. "'Course I was joking about shooting you up from the mesquite, Dave," he explained as the horses climbed the trail from the park. "I ain't got a thing against you nothing a-tall.
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