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And now as Trampas declared tickets to California would be dear and Rawhide had better come first, the Southerner let loose his heaven-born imagination. "There's a better reason for Rawhide than tickets, Trampas," said he. "I said it was too late for Tulare." "I heard you," said Trampas. "Opinions may differ. You and I don't think alike on several points."
"You'll find most folks going to Rawhide, if you re looking for company," pursued Trampas, fishing for a recruit. "How about Rawhide, anyway?" said Scipio, skillfully deflecting this missionary work. "Are they taking much mineral out? Have yu' seen any of the rock?" "Rock?" broke in the enthusiast who had beaten his knee. "There!" And he brought some from his pocket.
But the Virginian only held out to Trampas the rope which he had detached from his saddle. "Take your hand off your gun, Trampas. If I had wanted to kill yu' you'd be lying nine days back on the road now. Here's your rope. Did yu' expect I'd not know it? It's the only one in camp the stiffness ain't all drug out of yet. Or maybe yu' expected me to notice and not take notice?"
So that by the final afternoon of our journey, with Sunk Creek actually in sight, and the great grasshoppers slatting their dry song over the sage-brush, and the time at hand when the Virginian and Trampas would be "man to man," my thoughts rose to a considerable pitch of speculation.
The sight had been good for him, bringing some warmth of rage back to his desperate heart. And he went into a place and drank some whiskey. "In your shoes," said the barkeeper, "I'd be afraid to take so much." But the nerves of Trampas were almost beyond the reach of intoxication, and he swallowed some more, and went out again.
Any man old enough to have hair on his face ought to see through Trampas." The Virginian looked out of the window again, and watched Shorty and Trampas as they rode in the distance. "Shorty is kind to animals," he said. "He has gentled that hawss Pedro he bought with his first money. Gentled him wonderful. When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he had got some good in him."
Voices and cards, the click of chips, the puff of tobacco, glasses lifted to drink, this level of smooth relaxation hinted no more plainly of what lay beneath than does the surface tell the depth of the sea. For Trampas had made his choice. And that choice was not to "draw his steel." If it was knowledge that he sought, he had found it, and no mistake!
Neither has I. But I'se come mighty nigh; I peaked through de door as I went by." He was beginning a third stanza, but stopped short; a horse had neighed close behind us. "Trampas," said he, without turning his head, "we are home." "It looks that way." Some ten yards were between ourselves and Trampas, where he followed.
Molly laughed triumphantly. "Then who told Mrs. Taylor?" Being caught, he grinned at her. "I reckon husbands are a special kind of man," was all that he found to say. "Well, since you do know about that, it was the next move in the game. Trampas thought I had no call to stop him sayin' what he pleased about a woman who was nothin' to me then. But all women ought to be somethin' to a man.
"Here comes our grub, anyway," said Scipio, looking off toward the marshes. And his hilarity sobered away in a moment. "Well, the train will be in soon," stated Trampas. "I guess we'll get a decent supper without frogs." All interest settled now upon the Virginian. He was coming with his man and his gunny sack, and the gunny sack hung from his shoulder heavily, as a full sack should.
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