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It proved what I had not perceived that you two young Englishmen, tenderfeet both of you, had realised what you were doing, had seriously faced the responsibility of resurrecting the dead. The letter to the cashier, the twenty-dollar bill I found in my coat- pocket these were as scorpions. But I hadn't the nerve to own up. So I carried the money to the bank and deposited it to your account."
Casey retraced his steps for the second time to the camp of the tenderfeet. Loco Canyon, Casey calls the place, claiming it by right of discovery. Now I don't see, and possibly you won't see, either, what the devil's lantern had to do with Casey's bad luck. Casey maintains rather stubbornly that it had a great deal to do with it.
We're only a bunch of next door to tenderfeet scouts when it comes to reading trail talk; but we know enough to understand when she's explained to us. Please open up, and tell us now."
When the girls entered the "station" one old rascal leaned over and said: "Them are tenderfeet an' we-all oughter welcome 'em in th' good old- fashioned custom." "Sure thing!" cried the others, and they quickly planned.
They followed us here," exploded Ned. "We are a lot of tenderfeet." "Some of us," suggested Chunky. "This is no joke," snapped Ned, turning on him almost savagely. "We are in a fix." "Yes, but we've got two mules left, haven't we," queried the boy whimsically. "It's an outrage!" shouted the Professor. "I'll have the law on them whoever they are. They shall suffer for this!"
The trio were ordinary-looking creatures, ill-clad and even ragged. In a more stable community their apprehension by the village constable and arrest for vagrancy would have been immediate. "French Louis," the tenderfeet whispered and passed the word along. "Owns three Eldorado claims in a block," the man next to Frona confided to her. "Worth ten millions at the very least."
They're taking a trip over the mountains and they want to know if they can join you in the fun this afternoon?" "Sure!" roared the cowboys. "We'll give the tenderfeet all the fun they want." Tad smiled appreciatively. "Don't let them disturb you," warned Tom. "They mean all right." "Yes, sir; I understand cowmen pretty well. Have spent quite a little time with them."
Others poured in by every conceivable means of transportation, invading the little frontier town, the only spot of civilization in the vast, bare stretch of plains. Presho woke to find a great drove of tenderfeet stampeding down its little Main Street. They thundered down the board sidewalk and milled in the middle of the road, kicking up dust like a herd of range cattle as they went.
Wash kept muttering to himself as he worked. The rustle of the leaves, and the crackling of the brush as he dragged it forward, kept him from hearing such sounds as might have been made by the tenderfeet scouts, who had not yet learned just how to do these things as might an Indian or an experienced woodsman. Paul was on his knees now, and still rising, with Jack a close second.
Tenderfeet, with ten pounds of Colt's revolvers, cartridges, and hunting-knives belted about them, wandered valiantly up the trail, and crept back softly, shedding revolvers, cartridges, and knives in despairing showers. And so, in gasping and bitter sweat, these sons of Adam suffered for Adam's sin.