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And Garth ... well, there would never be a showdown between them now. He stood up. The Throg ship had disappeared; they could push on. He found a break in the cliff wall which was climbable, and he coaxed the wolverines after him. When they stood on the heights from which the falls tumbled, Taggi and Togi rubbed against him, cried for his attention.
The ladino was separated from the bunch of Circle Diamond cattle. Warren and his satellite drove the rest from the camp. "War, looks like," commented Dad Wrayburn. "Yes," agreed the drover. "I wish it didn't have to be. But Peg-Leg called for a showdown. He came here to force my hand. As regards the beef, he might have had it an' welcome. But that wouldn't have satisfied him.
There's a showdown coming between the white race and a mighty aggregation of colored peoples one of these days, and if the white man doesn't realize pretty soon that his supremacy is not only going to be contested but may be lost, it just simply will be lost; that is all there is to it." The Judge was studying deeply now. Finally he said: "Young lady, I greatly appreciate your coming to me.
They were not cowards, nor was he, but he had had too much experience with such people to be deluded into believing that, when the showdown came, they would think of anything but their own precious skins. He had heard rumors of the activity of the cattlemen but he discounted such rumors because of many false alarms in the past.
Within thirty feet of the deputy Malvey reined in. "You're ridin' late," he said, with a forced friendliness in his voice. "This the trail to Showdown?" queried the deputy. "This is her. Lookin' for anybody in particular?" "Nope. And I reckon nobody is lookin' for me. I'm ridin my own horse."
I was bit by a spider onct " "A spider, eh? Now that's right comical. What kind of a spider was it that bit you?" "Trap-door spider. Only this here one was always home." "So?" drawled the Texan. "Now, that's right funny. I was bit by a rattler once. Got the marks on my arm yet." "Well, if it comes to a showdown, that there spider bite " "The ranch-house is yonder," said the Texan.
And still shuffle, cut, deal, trick, and hand followed each other, and with draw and bluff and showdown we played the World and Destiny, and playing won, and saw our stacks of chips grow higher and higher, as our great and absorbing game went on. Moreover, while we won and won, nobody seemed to lose.
And they usually came alone, perchance from the Blue, the Gila, the T-Bar-T, or from below the border, for their business was with the border rustlers and parasites. Sheriffs of four counties seldom disturbed the place, because a man who had got as far south as Showdown was pretty hard to apprehend. From there to the border lay a trackless desert.
And if the Indian knew anything out of the way about Kedsty, it was mighty important that he, Mercer, get hold of it, for it might prove a trump card with them in the event of a showdown with the Inspector of Police. As a matter of form, Mercer took his temperature. It was perfectly normal, but it was easy for Kent to persuade a notation on the chart a degree above.
And you can't make much of a showdown in the dark." He left General Totten on the stairs, leaped down the remaining steps, and ran to a group of watchmen and night employees of the State House who were bulwarking the soldiers. "I'm beginning to see that it's some advantage, after all, to be the mayor of this city," Stewart informed himself.
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