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Nobody ever yet done me a meanness and got away with it. I reckon the Rutherfords won't be the first. It ain't on the cyards," he boasted. "You're going away . . . to leave me here . . . to starve?" "Who said anything about going away? I'll stick around for a while. It's none of my business whether you starve or live high. Do just as you please about that.
She was thinking of all the scandal which had leapt to life round Joan's name once the Rutherfords had left the village. She was remembering how last night Tom had said: "That little dancer girl is hot stuff." "Dick," she forced herself to speak presently, "I have got to tell you, though it hurts and you will hate me for doing it, but this girl is not the kind of person you can ever marry, Dick.
The question is how far would he dare go?" "You've put yore finger right on the point, son. What might restrain him wouldn't be any moral sense, but fear. He knows that once he touched Miss Rutherford, this country would treat him like a rattlesnake. He could not even be sure that the Rutherfords would not hunt him down in Mexico." "You think he would let her alone, then?"
It might be the end of Dave if they lifted a finger. But you're not known to the Rutherfords. You slip in over Wagon Wheel Gap to Huerfano Park, pick up what you can, and come out to Battle Butte with your news." "You mean spy on them?" "Of coorse." "But what if they suspected me?" "Then your heirs at law would collect the insurance," Ryan told him composedly.
He took all the precautions that one could, but he knew that in the end these would fail him. The Rutherfords would get him. Of that he had no doubt. They would probably have killed him, anyhow, but he had made his sentence sure when he had shot Anse Rutherford and wounded Eli Schaick ten days ago. That it had been done by him in self-defense made no difference.
When she rode out into a brave, clean world of sunshine, the girl carried her shame along. Ever since she could remember, outlaws and miscreants had slipped furtively about the suburbs of her life. The Rutherfords themselves were a hard and savage breed.
So, as I was crossing the bridge, without leaving the saddle or even stopping, I deposited the gold in the Big Creek safety deposit vault," Dingwell answered with a grin. "But supposing the Rutherfords had found it?" The superintendent put his question blandly. The face of the cattleman was as expressive as a stone wall.
He may have gone hunting or to Denver or Los Angeles." "No, he didn't do any one of the three. He was either murdered or else hid out in the hills by them that had a reason for it." "Do you suspect some one?" "I do," answered Ryan promptly. "If he was killed, two tinhorn gamblers did it. If he's under guard in the hills, the Rutherford gang have got him." "The Rutherfords, the same ones that ?"
The night was young yet, and in any case the Legal Tender never closed. The key had been thrown away ten years before. He could sit it out as long as the Rutherfords could. Dingwell was confident no move would be made against him in public. The sentiment of the community had developed since that distant day when the Rutherford gang had shot down Jack Beaudry in open daylight.
We are here for so short a time; and all the old people before us Rutherfords of Hermiston, Elliotts of the Cauldstaneslap that were here but a while since riding about and keeping up a great noise in this quiet corner making love too, and marrying why, where are they now? It's deadly commonplace, but, after all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths."
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