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Rigid in her chair, the girl watched the riders swoop toward the ranchhouse; Sanderson, lounging against the porch column, smiled saturninely. The riders headed directly toward the porch. Sanderson counted them as they came to a halt within thirty feet of the edge of the porch. There were twenty of them.
Calumet felt that it would be useless to question her and so he leaned back in his chair and regarded her saturninely. "Soon after your father became afflicted with his last sickness," continued Betty; "he called me to him and took me into his confidence. He talked to me about you about the way he had treated you.
She wanted to thank him, but she felt it was not time. Besides, he had not waited for her thanks. He had placed the halter on the horse she had ridden to the Diamond K, had looked on saturninely while Kelton had helped her into the saddle, and had then carried his own saddle to a point near the outside of the corral fence, laying the bridle beside it.
But I don't see what he's got to do " "No," returned Ferguson, "of course. You say them cattle was rustled last night?" "Yes." Stafford banged his fist down with a positiveness that left no doubt of his knowledge. "Well, now," observed Ferguson, "an' so you're certain Radford rustled them." He smiled again saturninely. "I ain't sayin' for certain," returned Stafford, puzzled by Ferguson's manner.
It was a house of hanging gables, almost as old as the town itself, solid and grim and taciturn. There are some houses which talk like gossips, noisy, obtrusive and provocative. Number forty was like an old warrior, gone to his chair by the fireside, who listens to the small-talk of his neighbors saturninely. What was it all about? Had he not seen battles and storms, revolutions and bloodshed?
"You told me Betty was runnin' the ranch, an' you tell this man that you're the son of the man that owns it. I don't see " Calumet smiled saturninely. "Take another drink," he advised. He shoved the bottle toward Dade. "This is your fourth. Then we'll be hittin' the breeze to the Lazy Y. Betty'll be lonesome without me." He laughed raucously, filled his glass and drank its contents.
When he saw that neither of them would bother him again, he leaped around the corner of the cabin and cautiously peered into the doorway. He saw Antrim stretched out on the floor of the cabin, face down and motionless. He stepped into the cabin, turned the outlaw over, grinned saturninely, and then went out to where Lawler stood. His eyes were aglow with concern.
This time so imbued was he with determination to heap confusion upon Alva Dale's head he stood in the center of the room, grinning saturninely, fully resolved that if it must be he would make a complete confession to the girl and stay at the Double A to fight Dale no matter what Mary thought of him. He might have gone to Mary, to ask her what had become of the letter.
But she's been groanin' a little while I've been comin' here, an' there's a chance for her. Go get the doctor." "What about her brother?" demanded Maison. "He's a shark with a gun, they tell me, an' a tiger when he's aroused. If he finds out about this he'll kill both of us." Dale grinned saturninely. "I'll take care of the brother," he said. "You get the doc an' be damned quick about it!"
"I wouldn't at all doubt her!" said the cook, saturninely, "But what's the drawn'-room carpet to conjuring a supper out of me pocket in five minutes? I ask you that, Eliza Hosford!"
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