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An' thet's why to-day I forgot our old quarrel.... But not a word about thet sheep-thief or I'll drive you off the place!" "But, Al be reasonable," remonstrated Dale. "It's necessary thet I speak of of Beasley." "It ain't. Not to me. I won't listen." "Reckon you'll have to, Al," returned Dale. "Beasley's after your property. He's made a deal " "By Heaven!
I trust nobody... But, you wild hunter if you're my friend prove it!... Go kill thet greaser sheep-thief! DO somethin' an' then come talk to me!" With that he lurched, half falling, into the house, and slammed the door. Dale stood there for a blank moment, and then, taking up his rifle, he strode away.
Though why a sheep-thief is considered to be a more guilty-looking man than any other criminal, I do not know. Jonas looked bright enough and ridiculous enough with his hunch. They all ate rather heartily, for how could they resist the attentions of Cynthy Ann and the persuasions of Julia, who poured them coffee and handed them biscuit, and waited upon them as though they were royal guests!
"They have dances over at Four Corners sometimes Hector Hall wanted me to go to one with him about a year ago. He had his nerve to ask me, the little old sheep-thief!" "Well, I should think so." "He's been doubly sore at us ever since I turned him down. I looked for him to come over and shoot up my camp some night for a long time, but I guess he isn't that bad." "So much to his credit."
A hundred lashes here and there, a debtor's jail, a hanging or two, would have made things more cheerful. But I, curse me if I could ever bring myself to use my simplest prerogatives; I can't whip a man, no! I can't hang a man for anything even a sheep-thief has his chance with me like that great villain, Billy Bones, who turned renegade and joined Danny Redstock and the McCraw."
"Where's the girl?" demanded Anson, in surprise, when he got back to the camp. "Wal, she's walkin' 'round between heah an' Pine," drawled Wilson. "Jim, you let her loose?" "Shore I did. She's been hawg-tied all the time. An' she said she'd not run off. I'd take thet girl's word even to a sheep-thief." "A-huh. So would I, for all of thet. But, Jim, somethin's workin' in you.
At this moment Miller dashed up and demanded, "What in hell are you trying to do?" "This sheep-thief of a sooner contests my right to this claim," snapped Edwards, "and he has played his last cards on this earth. Lead that horse under here." "Just one moment," said Miller. "I think I know this man think he worked for me once in New Mexico."
No need for him to say he had never before been spoken to like that! "You may have to stay here with me for weeks maybe months if we've the bad luck to get snowed in," he said, slowly, as if startled at this deduction. "You're safe here. No sheep-thief could ever find this camp. I'll take risks to get you safe into Al's hands.
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