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Updated: June 25, 2025
Toban had been gone a full hour, and she wondered if by this time he had overtaken Calumet, or whether Calumet was racing ahead of him on his way to execute vengeance upon the Taggarts. She was praying mutely that Toban might overtake him before this could happen when she heard a slight sound behind her and turned swiftly to see Neal Taggart standing in the doorway, grinning at her.
The information contained in the account of his father's adventures was soothing the termagant who had presided over his boyhood destinies had not been his real mother, and his father had left him a score to settle. He already hated the Taggarts, not particularly because they were his father's enemies, but rather because Tom Taggart had been a traitor. He felt a contempt for him.
You must remember me to all my friends, the Taggarts, Glenns, McKims, Marshalls, etc.... As to the young ladies you mention, you must tell them that I want to see them very much, and hope that they will all come to the mountains this summer, and not pass us by in Lexington. When you go to 'Goodwood' and the Eastern Shore, do the same there for me, and present me to all by name.
His father had been wronged, misled, betrayed, and humiliated by the Taggarts, and as Calumet stood beside the corral fence he found that all his rage the bitter, malignant hatred which had once been in his heart against his father had vanished, that it had been succeeded by an emotion that was new to him pity. An hour, two hours, passed before he turned and walked toward the ranchhouse.
"Man, you're a wonder!" groaned the enraptured Chief Medical Officer. He added, with a relapse into the national caution: "That is, ye will be if your prognosis proves correc'. But the Taggarts are a' of the canny breed of Doobtin' Tammas, an sae I'll just keep a calm sugh till I see what the knife lays bare." "Use the knife now, sir. At once without delay!"
I saw you come, but I wasn't figgerin' on makin' any explanations for my bein' around the Lazy Y at that time of the night, an' besides I saw the Taggarts sneakin' up on you. While they was gassin' to you I had one knee on Telza's windpipe an' my rifle pointin' in the general direction of the Taggarts, figgerin' that if they tried to start anything I'd beat them to it.
"But you've got it wrong. It's somethin' else. I've got to get out of here got to hit the breeze out of the country. The sheriff is after me." She took a step backward. "What for?" she asked breathlessly. "For killin' Al Sharp." "Al Sharp!" she exclaimed, staring at him in amazement. "Why, you told me that an Indian named Telza killed him!" "That's what Sharp told me. The Taggarts claim I done it.
He went to the Arrow first. He told me he was going to kill the Taggarts. Then he is going to get out of the Territory. Oh, Toban, catch him please! Toban laughed. "I ain't been blind, girl," he said; "the talks I've had with you in old Marston's office have wised me up to how things stand between you an' him. I'll ketch him, don't worry about that.
"I reckon I like him," said Toban, his lips grimming; "I like him well enough not to let him pull his freight on account of the Taggarts. Why, damn it!" he added explosively; "I was his father's friend, an' I ain't seein' him lose everything he's got here when he's innocent. Which way did he go?" There was a wild hope in her eyes; she was breathing fast. "Oh," she said; "are you going after him?
He led the Taggart horses out, took them to the bend in the trail, and turned them loose, for he anticipated that the Taggarts would make a complaint to the sheriff about them, and if they were found in the Lazy Y corral trouble would be sure to result. He watched them until they were well on their way toward the Arrow, and then he returned to the ranchhouse and went to bed.
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