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Updated: May 2, 2025
I had not forgotten that that was our argument, and I was nursing a feeling that I was fairly necessary to any permanency of operations in the Tigmores. I am all straightened out on that score now, thanks to Madeira. The situation that I find here is this: Madeira has calmly taken over our ideas, and his plans of organisation are about complete. He is qualified to act for Grierson absolutely.
This letter, Placide, is to attest that for seven months Crittenton Madeira has been in unlawful possession of the Canaan Tigmores, defrauding my heir and holding land under my name after being advised of my death and of the means of verifying the advice.
When the sound of Steering's foot-steps had died away, Madeira took a letter from his pocket, spread it open before him and read it over and over. I want you to turn the Tigmores over to my cousin, Bruce Steering. Let him start at once on the jack trail, that primrose path of dalliance. As for me, my dear sir, by the time this reaches you, I shall be on the long trail.
He crossed the room, all his strength back with him, and looked out upon the high black hills. "Eh, God!" he shouted, and beat at his chest where the letter lay, "Dead men tell no tales! I've got the Tigmores!" One late fall afternoon a man and a boy lingered under the shadow of tall trees and pondered tall things.
"You know I chased that old fellow all over Colorado with my letters about my scheme to open up the Tigmores, until I got him mad," he said, holding the letter up to say it, as though the contents would be illumined by his saying it.
"Yass, they do, sometimes, when I'm pestered not as I pester much," he laughed and broke off suddenly in his laughter, with a little sobbing shake in his breath, and passed on ahead of Steering, who looked away from him up the bridle road that cut into the Canaan Tigmores. "There comes Uncle Bernique!" cried Steering then, glad of a chance to divert Piney.
Write to the clerk of Snow Mountain County for the documents that I have left with him for you. They establish everything. Tell my cousin that, besides the Tigmores, I bequeath him my debts to you. This leaves me not at all envious of the job ahead of him, and, as ever, "Your blindly devoted servant,
It was not to be forgotten that Old Bernique had emerged from the bridle-path in the Canaan Tigmores. "When did you make the find, Uncle Bernique?" he asked hoarsely. "Thees minute," control was coming back to the old man, he raised his head from Piney's shoulder and leaned toward Bruce "only thees minute!
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