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Nothing could more clearly indicate his contempt, and Hardy, in spite of his fear, crimsoned with shame. "It was Tex Calder," he said at last. Silent started a little and his eyes narrowed again. "What of him?" "He came here a while ago an' tried to make a deal with me." "An' made it!" said Silent ominously.
A feeble protest trembled on his lips, but was choked back unuttered. He knew how futile any protest would be with Tex Lynch. "Yeah!" the latter snarled. "An' have somebody come along an' find him! Like as not he'd hang on long enough to blab all he knows, an' then where would we be? Where would we be even if somebody run acrost his body? I ain't takin' no chances like that, I'll tell the world!"
But so long as Johnny reported every evening that all was well, the horse-breaking would go on. It is a pity that he had not impressed these facts more deeply upon Johnny. A pity, too, that he had not confided in Mary V. Because Mary V might have had a little information for her dad, if she had understood the situation more thoroughly. As thoroughly as Tex understood it, for instance.
"She got one glimpse of that red haid of Tex and the pore lady's took to the sage," explained Yorky. "And him scrubbed so shiny fust time since Christmas before the big blizzard," sighed Doc Rogers. "Shucks! She ain't scared of no sawed-off, hammered-down runt like Texas, No, siree! Miss Messiter's on the absent list 'cause she's afraid she cayn't resist the blandishments of Soapy.
We got two jobs ahead of us first to get that Wells Fargo shipment, and then to get Whistling Dan. There ain't room enough in the whole world for him and me." In the clearing of Whistling Dan and Tex Calder the marshal had turned into his blankets once more. There was no thought of sleep in Dan's mind.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham, president of the Galveston Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs. Tex Armstrong of the Dallas association; Mrs. J. O. Creighton of the Austin association; Mrs. Ed. F. Harris and Mrs. J. H. W. Steele of Galveston; Mrs. David Doom, Mrs. Robert Connerly, Mrs. L. E. Walker, Mrs. A. B. Wolfe and Mrs. R. H. Griffith, all of Austin; Mrs William H. Dunne of San Antonio; Mrs.
'Tex, he says, 'where's the pilgrim? I remains noncommital, an' he continues, 'I layed over yesterday to enjoy Purdy's funeral, which it was the biggest one ever pulled off in Wolf River not that any one give a damn about Purdy, but they've drug politics into it, an' furthermore, his'n was the only corpse to show for the whole celebration, it bein' plumb devoid of further casualties." The cowpuncher paused, referred to his bottle, and continued: "It's just like I told you before.
The man swung from his horse and seemed to be minutely studying the ground. Then he mounted and headed down the coulee at a trot. "Look! There is Tex!" cried Endicott, and he pointed farther down the same coulee. A sharp bend prevented either rider from noticing the approach of the other. "Oh, I wonder who it is, and what will happen when they see each other?" cried the girl. "Look! There is Bat.
I digs my taters up, and gardens a bit first thing in the morning, and I cleans up in my churchyard, and then I cooks a bit o' dinner, and has a bit o' gossip with my neighbours. I'm a sociable sort o' chap, though I'm so lonesome. And I has a bit o' reading on occasions. Are you a-thinkin' any more o' that 'ere tex' that we was a-argufying on t'other arter-noon? Betty nodded.
But he wouldn't, and at the time there seemed nothing to do but let him go." "I suppose he might have had some other private reason than stealing cattle," commented Mrs. Archer. "He had," returned Mary, suppressing a momentary sense of annoyance that her aunt had shown the greater faith. "As nearly as I can make out, he was here to shadow Tex.
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