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Since that first moment, when in the Medicine Bow saloon the Virginian had shut the mouth of Trampas by a word, the man had been trying to get even without risk; and at each successive clash of his weapon with the Virginian's, he had merely met another public humiliation.
"I should run away from Trampas," said the bishop. "That ain't quite fair, seh. We all understand you have got to do the things you tell other folks to do. And you do them, seh. You never talk like anything but a man, and you never set yourself above others. You can saddle your own horses.
The case could not be one of forgiveness; but the Virginian would not use his official position to crush his subordinate. Trampas departed with something muttered that I did not hear, and the Virginian closed intimate conversation by saying, "You'll be late for breakfast." With that he also took himself away. The ladies were inclined to be scandalized, but not the Judge.
"They used to put all their tanks at the bottom of their grades," said Trampas. "Why, yu' get the water easier at the bottom." "You can pump it to the top, though," said Trampas, growing superior. "And it's cheaper." "That gets me," said the Virginian, interested. "Trains after watering can start down hill now and get the benefit of the gravity. It'll cut down operating expenses a heap."
"Good money-savin' scheme, ain't it?" said the Virginian. "Lettin' a freight run down one hill an' up the next as far as she'll go without steam, an' shavin' the hill down to that point." Now this was an honest engineering fact. "Better'n settin' dudes squintin' through telescopes and cypherin' over one per cent reductions," the Southerner commented. "It's common sense," assented Trampas.
"I expect that's all," he said aloud. But as he came nearer Trampas, he covered him with his weapon. He stopped a moment, seeing the hand on the ground move. Two fingers twitched, and then ceased; for it was all. The Virginian stood looking down at Trampas. "Both of mine hit," he said, once more aloud. "His must have gone mighty close to my arm. I told her it would not be me."
They laughed loudly at the blackguard picture which he drew; and the laugh stopped short, for the Virginian stood over Trampas. "You can rise up now, and tell them you lie," he said. The man was still for a moment in the dead silence. "I thought you claimed you and her wasn't acquainted," said he then. "Stand on your laigs, you polecat, and say you're a liar!" Trampas's hand moved behind him.
"I haven't finished," said the Judge. "I was coming to the matter. There's one particular since I do happen to have been told. I fancy Trampas has learned something he didn't expect." This time the Virginian evidently did not understand, any more than I did. One hand played with his hat, mechanically turning it round. The Judge explained. "I mean about Roberts."
And you would never hear it from his mouth. Molly, child, they say Trampas would kill him if he dared, and that's on account of you." "I never saw Trampas," said Molly, fixing her eyes upon the speaker. "No, deary. But before a lot of men Taylor has told me about it Trampas spoke disrespectfully of you, and before them all he made Trampas say he was a liar.
"You're always showing your rock," said Trampas, sulkily; for Scipio now held the conversation, and Shorty returned safely to his dozing. "H'm!" went Scipio at the rock. He turned it back and forth in his hand, looking it over; he chucked and caught it slightingly in the air, and handed it back. "Porphyry, I see." That was his only word about it. He said it cheerily.
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