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Updated: May 10, 2025
"I'll have to be careful how I sit down now," he remarked, jocularly, to Rack Slimson. "You ready? Aw right. You know the way to the Starlight's back door." The back door of the saloon was wide open. They entered on tiptoe, the proprietor in the lead. "Remember," whispered Racey, when he discovered the back room to be empty, "remember, I'm right behind you. Keep on yore toes."
A thousand pounds too! Quite a new sensation. It settles the question. And we'll enter Rainbow for the handicap. He ought to be good enough for anything they're likely to have. 'Captain Starlight's Rainbow, 9 st. 8 lb., I said, 'with Dick Marston to lead him up to the judge's box. How will that wash? And what are the police going to be about all the time?
"Lookit here, Bull, if you hadn't locked the door leading up the stairs to the Starlight's loft, I'd 'a' come after you there and done my persuadin' of you right in the loft. As it was when I heard what you were up to nemmine how I heard. I heard, that's enough I had to go out in the street and do what I could there. I don't believe the feller liked it much, neither." "But what's he to you?
"It wasn't Bob's dog that bothered you the other day," she told him as he stood ready to mount, his foot on the pedal; "Bob hasn't got a little white dog." "It must have been that brute that ran out from Barker's under Starlight's feet the other day, then," he called, and was off.
Every police trooper in the colony'll be after us like a pack of dingoes after an old man kangaroo when the ground's boggy, and they'll run us down, too; they can't be off it. Whatever made 'em think of such a big touch as that? 'That Starlight's the devil, I think, said Jim slowly.
While Jim and I was makin' it all out, with the help of a bit of candle we smuggled out we dursn't take it inside father was smokin' his pipe in the old fashion and saying nothing. When we'd done he put up his pipe in his pouch and begins to talk. 'It's come just as I said, and knowed it would, through Starlight's cussed flashness and carryin's on in fine company.
Bull spat disgustedly on the grass. He had seen the trap after it had been sprung. "You shore can't play poker," smiled Racey, his eyes shining with pleasure under the wide brim of his hat. "I The starlight's pretty bright remember." Bull's sudden movement came to naught. He settled back, his eyes furtively busy. "Still, alla same," pursued Racey, "I wonder was it all yore own idea."
On the day following the Starlight's arrival, as luck would have it, a 'political meeting' was to be holden at the Deacon's, when a considerable amount of first-rate drinking was sure to come off. Smooth, being Mr. Pierce's minister in general, was honored with an invitation which he declined in consideration of his anxiety to be among the mackerel.
He came back about sundown that evening, and told us that the police had been all over the country after us, and that Government had offered 200 Pounds reward for our apprehension mine and Starlight's with 50 Pounds each for Warrigal and Jim. They had an idea we'd all shipped for America. He sent us a newspaper. There was some news; that is, news worth talking about.
As for shooting in cold blood, I'm not on, and so I tell you. 'I suppose you think you and Starlight's going to boss the lot of us, because you've been doing it fine at the Turon races along with a lot of blasted swells as 'ud scrag us if they had the chance, and we're to take so much a head for our dashed lives, because we're only working chaps. Not if Dan Moran knows it.
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