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"Still, I suspect there are lots of men who'd be exposed in the same way if there were a general and complete show-down." "Sometimes I wish I really were with you working with you helping you. You have girls a girl to be your secretary or whatever you call it don't you?" "You should have seen the one I had to-day.
His friend drew rein and looked with level eyes at him. "Phil, it's come to a show-down! Are you for Brill Healy or are you for me?" "I'm through with Brill." "Dead sure of that?" "Dead sure. Why?" "Because you've got to make your choice to-night whether you're going to stand with honest men or thieves. Healy's gang is rustling a bunch of cows gathered at the round-up.
You know in your heart I'd be proud of you in any company on earth, but the' is a heap o' difference between you an' me. You have been successful, an' strangers will respect you for it; but it's got to be a show-down with me every time.
"W-whad I tell you, Texas man?" he asked of Bob. "Show-down at last, like I said." Into the night lifted a startled yell. "Here come the Injuns!" Taut nerves snapped. Wails of terror rose here and there. A woman fainted. The sound of a revolver shot rang out. One of the roisterers, who had been loud in his threats of what he meant to do to the Indians, lost his braggadocio instantly.
The Texan was never strong when it came to conversation and the other party seemed to realize that further words would merely amount to so much small talk under the circumstances. It was a show-down shoot or ride away. And the muzzle of that rifle had an unpleasant way of following any one of the trio who made a move in the saddle.
"Hum," snorted Billy, "four-eyes and red-top that's a nice combination for you! I'd like to do something to show that old chap that we can do just as much as anyone else when it comes to a show-down." This remark, however, was made sotto voce to Lathrop, as Billy really stood in great awe of the six foot-two of ebony flesh and muscle that was Sikaso.
He was a medium-sized man with a drooping sandy mustache. "We'll close up, boys," he said. The show-down had come. Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and Jim took counsel. Doc Holliday advised with them. A handful of their supporters stood by awaiting their decision. All others left; the neighborhood was no healthy place for non-combatants.
But it won't be altogether healthy for the man on whose shoulders a great many of these things are finally loaded. You were enterprising, Decherd, and you were an abler man than I thought, far abler; but you undertook too much. "Now, here's a message from Colonel Blount," Eddring resumed. "It looks as though things were coming pretty nearly to a show-down up there.
"It's a comfort to know that you are the big boss, Stuart. North can't knock you out of that when it comes to a show-down." "I don't know," said Ford, whose night ride had made him pessimistic. "I am Mr. Colbrith's appointee, you know not an elected officer. And what Mr. Colbrith has done, he may be induced to undo.
The only deceit about it, if it was a deceit, was that he never went out of his way to deny his vast wealth, and as he never asked for anything there was no occasion to publish his inventory. The pursuing mothers and daughters never succeeded, before his flight, in leading him far enough to ask for a show-down.
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