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Calumet picked up the rifle which he had taken from the elder Taggart, mounted his horse, and drove the Taggart animals into the corral. He decided that he would keep them there for an hour or so, to give the Taggarts time to get well on their way toward the Arrow. Had he turned them loose immediately they no doubt would have overtaken their masters before the latter had gone very far.
You told me I'd have to try again or somethin' like that. I reckon you thought I was after the idol?" "Yes." "Then the Taggarts have tried to get it since you've been here?" "Many times." "But you left the front door open the night I came," insinuated Calumet, his eyes glowing subtly. "That looks like you was invitin' someone to come in an' get the idol."
Don't you think it is about time for you to realize that you are hurting no one but yourself by harboring such black, dismal thoughts. Nobody is trying to cheat you except probably the Taggarts. Everybody here is trying their best to be friendly to you, trying to aid in making those reforms which your father mentioned. Dade likes you; Bob loves you.
By this time, if she has carried out my wishes, she has told you what you may expect. I have told her the story which I am going to tell you, and I am certain that when you have finished it you will see that I am not entirely to blame. You will see, too, what havoc Tom Taggart has wrought in my life; why he has tried many times to kill me. Calumet, beware of the Taggarts!
Only this small space of time was required by the Taggarts to convince them that Calumet was in deadly earnest. Then, with Neal leading, they began to run toward the bend in the trail. Shortly Calumet turned. The Taggarts had almost reached the bend, and while he watched they vanished behind it.
But as it turned out it wasn't necessary. I sure appreciated your tender-heartedness toward them poor dumb brutes of the Taggarts. "After you set the Taggarts to walkin' home, I took Telza to Lazette an' locked him up for murderin' Sharp." "I reckon, then," said Calumet, a puzzled frown wrinkling his forehead as he looked from Taggart to the freshly dug hole; "that somebody else killed Taggart.
There's two against one. The evidence is against me. The Taggarts found me in the clearing with Sharp. I had the knife. No one else was around. I buried Sharp. The Taggarts will swear against me. Where's my chance?" She was silent, and he laughed again. "They've got me, I reckon the Taggarts have. I fancied I was secure. I didn't think they'd try to pull off anything like this.
"Yes," he drawled, with a suspicious grin; "I reckon you feel a whole lot like congratulatin' me." "I do," she said. "Of course you were not to have the idol just yet, but it is better for you to have it before the time than that the Taggarts should get hold of it." "Do you know where the idol is hid?" he asked. She told him no, that she had never consulted the diagram.
In the first place, he had too much stock, even if conditions were right. I have heard that Kelton offered to pay the Taggarts for the use of part of their grass, but they have never been friends and the Taggarts wanted to charge him an outrageous price for the privilege. Therefore, Kelton is anxious to get rid of some of his stock.
"What's up?" he inquired, leaning over in the saddle and peering closely at her; "you look flustered. Where's Marston?" "Gone," she told him. He straightened. "Gone where?" he demanded. "Away forever," she said weakly. "He heard you were after him for for killing that man Sharp and he left." Toban cursed. "So he got wind of it, did he? The Taggarts must have gassed about it.
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