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Sharp had said that Taggart was somewhere in the vicinity, but it was just possible that Sharp had been so deeply engaged with Telza about the time Taggart had made his escape that he had not seen him. There was time for him to settle with Taggart. He took up the bridle rein, wheeled, placed one foot into the stirrup, intending to mount, when he became aware of a shadow looming near him.
"Do you know Telza?" "Telza?" "Toltec," he said; "a Toltec from Yucatan. He got it yesterday last night while you was gassin' to your friend, Neal Taggart." She started, recollection filling her eyes. "A Toltec!" she said in an awed voice. "I have heard that they are fanatics where their religion is concerned; your father told me that his that woman Ezela told him.
"I was comin' through here after tendin' to some business an' I saw Telza knife Sharp. I piled onto Telza an' beat him up a little. Lordy, how that little copper-skinned devil did fight! But I squelched him. I heard some one comin', thought it was one of Taggarts, an' dragged Telza behind that scrub brush over there.
"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.
I run into a man named Al Sharp, who'd been knifed by the Toltec. Him an' the Toltec had been detailed by Taggart to get the diagram. Sharp said Taggart knowed my dad had drawed one. Telza got it last night while you was talkin' to Taggart. Frame-up. Sharp tried to take it away from Telza, an' Telza knifed him. Sharp's dead. I buried him last night. Telza dropped the diagram. I got it.
They didn't get it because the clearin' ain't dug up any. Telza knifed Sharp an' he's sloped, likely figgerin' that this country ain't healthy for him any more. You've got the diagram an' I want it. I'm goin' to get it if I have to kill you to get it! Understand! "You've got no chance," he sneered, as she looked around the room furtively, hopelessly.
His interest was intense. A Toltec! Telza was of the race from whom his father and Taggart had stolen the idol. He leaned closer to the man. "Are Telza an' Taggart friends?" he asked. "Friends!" The man's weak laugh was full of scorn. "Taggart's stringin' him. Telza's lookin' for an idol all gold an' diamonds, an' such. Worth thousands. Taggart set Telza on Betty Clayton."
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.
It was plain to Calumet that the elder Taggart had some ulterior motive in suggesting a peace conference. He noted that while Taggart talked his eyes kept roving around the clearing as though in search of something. That something, Calumet divined, was Sharp and Telza. He suspected that Calumet had seen Telza and Sharp, or one of them, enter the clearing, and had followed them.
"Know him, eh?" said Calumet, watching them narrowly. "Well, he done his duty done what you wanted him to do. But your man, Telza, double-crossed him knifed him." He took up the rapier-like blade that he had drawn from Sharp's side and held it before their eyes. Again they started, and Calumet laughed. "Know the knife, too!" he jeered.
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