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Updated: September 9, 2025
I can see it in your face! You've come home with some news to break. You been drafted!" He held her arms to her sides, still pressing her down to her chair. "I tell you I haven't! Can't you take my word for it?" "Swear to me, Sammy!" "All right; I swear." "Swear to me on your dead father who is an angel in heaven!" "I swear thataway." She was still pressing against her breathing.
"You're reprieved, West," he announced simply. The desperado staggered to the sled and leaned against it faintly. His huge body swayed. The revulsion was almost too much for him. "I I knowed you couldn't treat an old pardner thataway, Tom," he murmured. Morse took the man out to a fir tree. He carried with him a blanket, a buffalo robe, and a part of the dog harness.
Reckon I'd break out myself like a man that eats pancakes a lot under sich circumstances. Zeke says this band the latest gang to git sore is a-headin' dead south. Talks like we might run agin trouble down there. More'n one brand, too the police and the reg'lars all bein' out thataway. They're all out Zeke says." The others were absorbed in play, and so made no retort.
It was while making her way slowly through some bushes, in this manner, with averted face and eyes riveted on the immovable animals, that the girl suddenly found her steps arrested by a human hand, that was laid lightly on her shoulder. "Where go? " said a soft female voice, speaking hurriedly, and in concern. "Indian red man savage wicked warrior thataway."
We went on thataway a good while into the summer and nothing much happened between us and our neighbors. Maybe once in a while our dog Peanut would get over in their back yard and scratch up their pansies. Peanut always liked to lay in fresh dirt, and he seemed to know instinctive which was our pansy beds and which was theirn. Their hired man only laughed when I seen him and apologized.
"Renegades gits stirred up every jest so often," he observed. "I s'pose it's because of the way they feel about things. Being run offen the reservations thataway ain't nowise pleasant, to begin with, and then havin' to hang around the aidges for what grub their folks sees fit for to sneak out to 'em ought to make it jest that much more monotonous kind of.
It was as if the flood of her emotion had risen to a wave and at his words frozen on its crest. She opened her lips to speak, but could only regard him with eyes as hard as ice-fields. "Now, now, Mae, don't look thataway. You're a sensible woman and know the world's just built thataway. I always told you it don't cost us men nothing but loose change to show ourselves a good time.
He drew a trembling hand across his eyes, and when he looked again the shack stood silent and black in the half-light of the starlit clearing. "God!" he mumbled aloud. "If it had only happened thataway " He passed his tongue over his dry, thick lips. "Why not?" he argued querulously.
"What can I say to you all?" he burst out with sudden passion. "Theh yo' set with guns in yo' hands an' murder in yo' souls to listen to the word of God! How do yo' expect the Prince of Peace to come to yo' if yo' set there thataway?"
"Well, I gotta go an' get some goods for the ranch, Mr. Haines," he said. "I reckon you'd like to s-slide back easy an' have folks forget," Blister said. "Natural enough. But it won't be thataway. You'll have to f-fight like a bulldog to travel back along that trail to a good name. You ain't really begun yet." "See you again next time I get to town," Bob said.
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