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"Scratch him, Tex!" yelled the delighted cowpunchers. Suddenly the yells of appreciation gave place to gasps even from the initiated, as the rage-crazed animal leaped high into the air and throwing himself backward, crashed to the ground squarely upon his back.
"Doing?" exclaimed Barbara, "I haven't been doing anything, Uncle Pat." "Aw, go on, don't be tellin' me that. Aven Uncle Tex here can see that ye've changed ivery blissid thing in the place. 'Tis not the same, at all, an' afther us a-workin' our fingers to the bone to fix ut up. 'Tis quare. I know now that Tex hung that curtain there.
With a shake of his head and a movement of his wide shoulders, Buck mentally dismissed that subject. "It's getting dark," he said briskly. "We'll have to hustle, or there'll be a searching party out after us. Have you noticed anything else particularly about Lynch, I mean, or any of the others?" "Nothin' I can make sense of," returned Jessup. "Tex has been off the ranch a lot.
We've got to lay low in the bad lands about a week or so, an' after that folks will have somethin' else on their mind an' we can slip acrost to the N. P." "See here, Tex, this thing has gone far enough." There was a note of determination in Endicott's voice as he continued: "I cannot permit you to further jeopardize yourself on my account.
He saw the sprawled form of Tex Calder on the floor and the erect figure of Lee Haines just opposite him. "For God's sake!" screamed Gus Morris, "don't shoot, Haines! He's done nothin'. Let him go!" "My life or his!" said Haines savagely. "He's not a man he's a devil!" Dan was laughing low a sound like a croon. "Tex," he said, "I'm goin' to take him alive for you!"
Step by step the girl detailed what had happened while the Texan listened in silence. "And now," she concluded, "he's gone. Just when " her voice broke and once more she buried her face in her arms. Tex saw that she was sobbing silently. He felt for his "makings" and drew from his pocket a little sack of soggy tobacco and some wet papers. He returned them to his pocket and rose to his feet.
"What's the matter, Willie?" smiled Tex, as he slipped from his seat behind Endicott's saddle. "Didn't your breakfast set right?" The man rolled to face them at the sound of the voice, and such a stream of obscene blasphemy poured from his lips as to cause even the Texan to wince.
And she was glad glad that the Seer and Abe and Tex and Pat and her father the men who had brought her out of the Desert were going now back into that land of death to save that land itself from itself. And she whispered it softly under the stars she was glad glad that Willard Holmes had come to go with them to learn the language of her land.
'We might go by train a part of the way. 'I would like to see her grave very much, said Bobby, 'because father went to put my tex' upon it. He liked my tex' very much. 'I think we all like it, Bobby. 'I wonder which is God's favourite text in the Bible, said True. Lady Isobel was silent; the children sometimes puzzled her. 'God never makes any faverits, said Bobby.
"Come on, Wart," Hampden called to Siddons from the doorway. "Tex has just been listening to old General Rumor. I'd like right much to see this instructor before I get excited about it. Come on, let's go into town. The night's young and so am I." "You'll get excited when you see him," Tex responded, sagely. "Who is he?" Nathan Rodd asked, which was about as long a sentence as Rodd ever spoke.
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