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Without a word he returned to the house. "They ain't going to foreclose, that's a cinch," said Racey when the ponies were fox-trotting toward Soogan Creek and the Bar S range five minutes later. "Luke's telling me they were proves they ain't." "Shore," acquiesced Swing, "but what are they gonna do?" "I ain't figured that out yet." "You mean you dunno. That's the size of it,"
Altogether, Wallie felt very lonely and forlorn and forgotten this Christmas morning as he lay in a knot under the soogan, listening to the wind twanging the stove-pipe wire and contemplating his present and future.
That settled it! He doubted if she would ever speak to him. "I've got customers waitin'," urged the constable, impatiently. "Wrap a soogan around you and step lively." There was nothing to do but obey, in the circumstances, so the shame-faced pair walked the short block to a hardware store in the rear of which the Justice of the Peace was at his desk to receive them.
"But he won't be," he added, lugubriously. "I never did have any luck." He passed the grove of trees and opened up the prospect of house and stable and corral with cottonwood and willow-bordered Soogan Creek in the background. "Changed some since I was here last," he muttered in wonder. For nesters as a rule do not go in for flowers and shrubs.
Fumbling under his pillow, he produced the stub of a pencil and a tablet, after which, crosslegged on his blankets and soogan, he pored over the catalogue. Jewelry, clothing, cooking utensils and upholstered furniture were on the list which Bowers, with corrugated forehead and much chewing of the pencil, made out laboriously.
He'd express them half the dust and tell them that 'twas Slim's. He'd "OO oo ough!" he shivered he'd forgotten to stoke the fire. Oh, well, a soogan would do him well enough. He pulled a quilt from under Slim and wrapped it about his own shoulders. Then he sat down again by the fireless stove and laid his head on his folded arms upon the rough pine table.
A single iron bedstead extended into the room and a soogan and two blankets, thin and ragged from service, were heaped in the middle. There was no pillow, and a hard cotton pad constituted the mattress. An empty whiskey bottle stood by the head of the bed. A small pine table that at most might have cost a couple of dollars set against the wall by the window.
He was young then, Dick Kincaid, but the sight which met his eyes stayed with him distinct in every detail, through all his adventurous life. Two children, boys of eleven and thirteen or thereabouts, were roasting a ground squirrel in the smouldering embers of what had been a cabin. A dead baby lay on a ragged soogan near a partially dug grave.
Death had refused Dubois even the usual gift of dignity. His mouth was open, and his eyes; he looked even more than in life the brute and the miser. "Two shots; and each made a bull's eye. One in the temple and another for luck. Either would have killed him." She covered his face with a corner of the "soogan" and glanced around.
Guess you must 'a' bothered Luke Tweezy some when you spoke to him that day in front of the Happy Heart just before you and Lanpher crawled yore cayuses and rode to Dale's on Soogan Creek.... Don't remember, huh? I do. You said, 'See you later, Luke, and he didn't speak back. Just kept on untying his hoss and keeping his head bent down like he hadn't heard a word you said. 'S'funny, huh?"
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