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If Jack does what I want, there'll be no more of the nasty tizwin to make Dad cross and sick." Lennon found himself regarding the girl with rekindled admiration for her ingenuity and daring. "So this is why you saved the dynamite?" he remarked. "Will it not be dangerous I mean, to anger that man Slade, you know?" "Anything to save Dad If you're afraid, just tell me how to fix it.
"Cochise was hiding in Devil's Chute until you rode out of sight," he quavered. "He demanded tizwin. I convinced him that Slade took away every drop. He then threatened to seize you for his woman and torture Mr. Lennon, if I did not send down Elsie. I postponed the decision until your return." "All right, Dad. We persuaded him to let us come up.
"If it's only Elsie's pies; if only they haven't bluffed Dad into sending down a jug of tizwin!" murmured Carmena. "We've been outplayed. We can't get back," said Lennon. "Shall I drive them off again with my rifle?" "No. Cochise agreed to wait for Slade. I'm going to make him stick to it. We'll ride on around. Maybe they'll not wait."
You took too much tizwin to know what you were about. You came in here for a drink of water and fell against the table corner." The glaring eyes of the trader narrowed in a look of crafty calculation. Lennon followed the man's thoughts by his expression. The effects of the moonshine whiskey, of the blow under his ear, and of the suffocation had not yet passed.
They filled him up with tizwin and left him out in the middle of the Basin, with only tizwin in his canteen. Mena said it served him right and dead men tell no tales." Lennon stiffened. "You can't mean to say your father and sister were parties to such an outrage that they helped to rob a man and then abandon him to die of thirst?" "Why not?" demanded Elsie, with unexpected spirit.
"I hope your feet don't hurt. Mena's were even rawer awful bad. She just couldn't help crying when I sopped them with the tizwin. She says that's all it's good for. I never knew her to cry before. But you were too dead asleep to feel the smart. I'll have your boots oiled and your clothes cleaned before you need 'em."
"First to make Dad believe the brand-blotting was a part of his honest cattle business, and then " "What's that?" interrupted Lennon. "You mean he deceived your father? I did not understand it that way." "Yes. He lied. Dad was an Easterner like yourself. Slade had him incriminated before he knew it was stock stealing. Then he forced tizwin making upon us. You know the consequences to poor Dad.
Carmena handed a key to Cochise and stood shielding the flickering flame of the candle. "Maybe we'll find both together," she said. "It would have been just like Slade to lock your woman in with the tizwin." She added a guttural murmur in Apache. The Indians pushed forward as their leader snapped open the padlock. The heavy door swung open.
Dam' good friends," smoothly agreed the Apache. "You find my woman quick, I let you go. Sabe?" "And the tizwin the barrels of tizwin," added Carmena. "Come on, all of us together You, too, Jack." She signed to the Apaches and called out a few words in their own thick guttural tongue. Lennon did not hang back. Great as was his abhorrence of the girl, he started forward beside her.
I'll try to find Elsie for you. I think I know where she's hidden." Lennon stared, more than ever filled with horror of her treachery. "You you!" he grasped. "That child give her, to save that scoundrel?" "And ourselves," added Carmena, her lips curved in a cajoling smile at Cochise. "When I've found her and the tizwin we'll be friends. Won't we, Cochise?" "Sure.
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