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I just assumed making a mistake as I now realize that my scrap would be with Sassoon, not with the Morgans." Satt's face wrinkled into a humorous grin. "You sure kicked up some alkali." De Spain nodded candidly. "More than I intended to. And I say without any intention of impertinence to anybody else Sassoon is a cur.
While Pedro produced them, from nowhere apparently, as a conjurer picks cards out of the air, the sound of galloping horses came through the open door. A moment later three men walked, single file, into the room. De Spain stood at the left end of the bar, and Lefever introduced him to Gale Morgan, to David Sassoon, and to Sassoon's crony, Deaf Sandusky, as the new stage-line manager.
Enid Blunt, increasingly guttural, and mingling German words with her Bedford Park English, refuted, or strove to refute, Jennings's ecstatic praise of French verse, citing rapidly poems composed by members of the Sitwell group, songs of Siegfried Sassoon, and even lyrics by Lady Margaret Sackville and Miss Victoria Sackville West.
"I heard," he said in a good-natured, slightly nasal tone, "you made a sunrise call on us one day last week." "And I want to say," returned de Spain, equally amiable, "that if I had had any idea you folks would take it so hard I mean, as an affront intended to any of you I never would have gone into the Gap after Sassoon.
Sassoon never looked a man in the face when the man looked at him, except by implication; it was almost impossible, without surprising him, to catch his eyes with your eyes. He seemed now to regard de Spain keenly, as the latter, still attending to Morgan's statement, replied: "Elpaso tells a pretty straight story." "Elpaso couldn't tell a straight story if he tried," interjected Sassoon.
"I didn't ask them for a reputation. This man interfered with my guard in fact, tried to cut his throat, didn't he?" "Would have done it if Frank had been an honest man." "That is all there is to it, isn't it? If Sassoon or anybody else gets in the way of the stages, I'll go after them again that's all there is to it, isn't it?"
Elpaso, in the end, justified his old reputation by making a recovery haltingly, it is true, and with perilous intervals of sinking, but a recovery. It was while he still lay in the hospital and hope was very low that de Spain and Lefever rode, one hot morning, into Calabasas and were told by McAlpin that Sassoon had been seen within five minutes at the inn.
Between these alternatives there was not much middle ground, except that failing to find Sassoon, or in case he should be intercepted with his prisoner, the intruder, escaping single-handed from a shower of bullets, might still get away. But Morgan's Gap men were esteemed fairly good marksmen.
But Gale, and Sassoon who had even keener reason for hating de Spain, left Duke to sulk as he would, and set about getting the enemy without any help from the head of the house.
But with an instinct better than knowledge, Sassoon, like a wolf scenting danger, stopped again. He scanned the broken and forbidding hump in front, now less than a quarter of a mile from him, questioningly. His eyes seemed to rove inquisitively over the lava pile as if asking why a Morgan Gap pony had visited it. In another moment he wheeled his horse and spurred rapidly after his companions.
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