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Paula heard her husband ask with one of his abrupt shifts that she knew of old time tokened his drawing together the many threads of a situation and proceeding to action. "Raoul Bena." "What's his rank?" "Colonel he's got about seventy ragamuffins." "What did he do before he quit work?" "Sheep-herder." "Very well." Dick's utterance was quick and sharp. "You've got to play-act. Become a patriot.
At the first approach of the invaders the unconsidered zeal of Judge Ware overcame him; he was for peace, reason, the saner judgment that comes from wider views and a riper mind, and, fired by the hope of peaceful truce, he rode furtively along the river waving a white handkerchief whenever he saw a sheep-herder, and motioning him to cross.
Smith knew, but he had forgotten for the minute, so accustomed to turning as he was to the center of civilization in that section for all the gentle ministrants of woe, such as doctors, preachers, and undertakers. "I'll have him here before morning," said Smith, posting off to get his horse. The poor sheep-herder was too sorely hurt to last the night out.
She determined at last to seek Boyle in his camp. She brought up her horse and saddled it, took a look around camp to see that everything was in shape for she liked to leave things tidy, in case some of the neighbors should stop in and was about to mount, when a man's head and shoulders appeared from behind her own cottonwood log. A glance showed her that it was the sheep-herder.
"Then the father of Jeff became very angry, so that he lost weight and his face became changed, and he took an oath that the first sheep or sheep-herder that crossed his range should be killed, and every one thereafter, as long as he should live.
Jack had won the name of being dangerous, for he had crippled one man with a blow and nearly killed a tipsy fool who volunteered to fight him. A harmless but good-for-nothing sheep-herder who loafed about the place got very drunk one night and offended some fire-eaters.
The morning sun, pushing up past the cañon-rim, picked out the details of the camp one by one the smouldering fire of cedar wood, the packs, saddles and ropes, the water-cask, the lazy burros waiting for the sun to warm them to action, the blankets and sheepskin bedding, and farther down the cañon a still figure standing on a slight rise of ground and gazing into space the figure of José de la Crux Montoya, the sheep-herder whom Roth had said feared no man and was a dead shot.
"Do you mean to tell me," he demanded, "that there are medical schools where you can buy a diploma? Where anybody can get through?" She laughed at his amazement. "A quiz-compend and a good memory will put a farm-hand or a sheep-herder through if he can read and write; he doesn't have to have a High School education."
They made a wondering, awed ring around the wounded man, who was pronounced by Smith to be in deep waters. There was a bullet through his neck. Smith believed there was life enough left in the sheep-herder to last until he could fetch a doctor from Meander. "But that's thirty miles," said Agnes, "and Dr. Slavens is not more than twenty. You know where he's located down by Comanche?"
He was a small, dark individual, with spectacles, plainly of the city. "Beware! Smallpox!" called Ross, as his visitor drew near the door. The new-comer waved his hand contemptuously. "I've had it. Are you Ross Cavanagh?" "I am!" "My name is Hartley. I represent the Denver Round-up. I'm interested in this sheep-herder killing merely as a reporter," he added, with a fleeting smile.
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