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Updated: May 6, 2025
"By this time you will know that I didn't leave Betty alone to cope with the Taggarts. If Dave Toban has kept his word and I know he has he has visited the Lazy Y pretty often. I didn't want you to know that he was back of Betty, and so I have told him to visit her secretly. He will give you what money is left in the bank at Las Vegas we thought it would be safer over there.
"We will, your reverence stay one moment whilst I whisper to the boys that your reverence is about to bestow your blessing upon us." Then turning to the rest who all this time had kept their eyes fixed intently upon us, he bellowed with the voice of a bull: "Down on your marrow bones, ye sinners, for his reverence Toban is about to bless us all in holy Latin."
For a moment she could not determine the direction from which the sounds came, but presently she saw a rider approaching from the direction of the river, and she stepped down from the porch and advanced to meet him. She feared at first that it was Toban returning alone, and she halted and stood with clenched hands, but as the rider came closer she saw it was not Toban but an entire stranger.
It's only twenty miles to the line, an' the way I'm intendin' to travel I'll be over it before Toban can ketch me. I don't want him to ketch me he was a friend of my dad's, an' puttin' him out of business wouldn't help me none." "Will you be safe, then?" she asked fearfully. "I reckon. But I won't be stoppin' at the line. I'm through here; there's nothin' here to hold me.
"Now, if you'll look close at that gang which is mixing palaver in front of the Silver Dollar you'll mebbe notice that Lemuel Train is in it, an' Truxton, of the Diamond Dot, Holcomb, of the Star, Yeager, of the Three Diamond, Clark, of the Circle Y, Henningson, of the Three Bar, Toban, of the T Down, an' some more which has come in for the racket tonight.
You go back to Lazette," he said to Bernse, "an' tell the man who owns the horse that Calumet Marston will be glad to pay for it he's that damned glad he's got rid of the idol." Followed by Bernse, Calumet and Toban returned to the ranchhouse. When they neared it they were met by Dade and Malcolm, bearing between them the body of Neal Taggart.
He stole a horse an' come in this direction. Got an hour's start of me!" Calumet laughed shortly and turned to the new-made excavation, making a thorough examination of it. At its bottom was a square impression, a mold such as would be left by the removal of a box. Calumet stood up and grinned at Toban. "The idol's gone," he said. "Telza's got it.
Besides " he leaned forward in a listening attitude; "Toban an' the boys are comin'. I reckon what I'm goin' to do won't take me long if Taggart's in the timber." He stepped down and vanished around the corner of the ranchhouse.
And she felt as she had felt all along even when she had seen him at his worst that she must mother him, must help him to build up a new structure of self, must lift him, must give him what the world had so far denied him his chance. And she sat at the table and leaned her head in her arms and prayed that Toban might overtake him before he reached the Arrow.
Finally the medical officer noticed his fondness for the dog and would, on occasion, take the pup in front of him on the saddle. Once the battalion was going into action and the M.O. was busy at his regimental aid post, making preparations for a rush, when Toban came in. "Say, Doctor," he explained, "I can't take the pup with me and I tied him to a tree down the road."
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