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Updated: June 29, 2025
The Iowa boy, under Taterleg's tutelage, was developing into a trustworthy and capable hand, the cattle were fattening in the grassy valleys. All counted, it was the most peaceful spell that Philbrook's ranch ever had known, and the tranquility was reflected in the owner, and her house, and all within its walls.
The Duke had no further comment on Taterleg's rules of conduct. They went along in silence a little way, but that was a state that Taterleg could not long endure. "Well, I'll soon be in the oyster parlor up to the bellyband," he said, full of the cheer of his prospect. "Nettie's got the place picked out and nailed down I sent her the money to pay the rent.
Makes a feller want to lean over and pat that little row of bangs." "I expect there's a feller down there doin' it now." The spring complained under Taterleg's sudden movement; there was a sound of swishing legs under the sheet. Lambert saw him dimly against the window, sitting with his feet on the floor. "You mean Jedlick?" "Why not Jedlick? He's got the field to himself."
There appeared in the light of the hotel door for a moment the figures of struggling men, followed by the sound of feet in flight down the steps, and somebody mounting a horse in haste at the hotel hitching-rack. Whoever this was rode away at a hard gallop. Lambert knew that the battle was over, and as he came to the hitching-rack he saw that Taterleg's horse was still there. So he had not fled.
Whatever his thoughts were, they bound him in a spell which the creaking of Taterleg's saddle, as he shifted in it impatiently, did not disturb. "Couple of fellers just rode up to the gate in the cross-fence back of the bunkhouse," Taterleg reported. The Duke grunted, to let it be known that he heard, but was not interested.
He was a thousand miles away from the Bad Lands in his fast-running dreams. "That old nigger seems to be havin' some trouble with them fellers," came Taterleg's further report. "There goes that girl on her horse up to the gate say, look at 'em, Duke! Them fellers is tryin' to make her let 'em through." Lambert turned, indifferently, to see.
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