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Whatever conclusion was reached as to the artist's future, he was, until the verdict came in, a visitor, and, unless liquor inflamed some reckless trouble-hunter, that fact would not be forgotten. Possibly, it was as well that Tamarack Spicer had not arrived. Lescott himself realized the situation in part, as he stood at the door of the house watching the scene inside.
Al was a youth who hunted trouble for the thrill of meeting it more than half-way, but since Tom Lorrigan happened to be his father, Al rode off the Devil's Tooth ranch before he became the rampant young trouble-hunter. Belle had some anxious hours during the time Al was gone, but she never once betrayed her anxiety; which is doing pretty well for a mother.
"It's an open field." "I got ten series mapped out to start. Call 'em 'The Trouble-hunter Twins, Ruff and Reddy. If they catch on, the artist and me can keep 'em goin' forever. And they'll catch." "I believe they will," said Severance. "Smeared across the top of a page it'll make a business man laugh as hard as a kid. I know business men. I was one, myself.
"You're surely the most ambitious trouble-hunter I ever saw," he said, returning to his habitual humorous drawl, with the twinkle in his eyes that went with it. "Just the same, we'll not go back to the mine just yet. Till the dust settles, we're both better off down here with Don Andres Picardo. I don't want to be hung for the company I keep. Besides "
Tom called, as he saw some of the foremen trying to push or punch their way through the throng. "Help me to run Evarts and this other trouble-hunter out of the camp!" The menacing yells grew fewer and fainter as the cheers of loyal laborers rose. The foremen seized both trouble makers and began to run them along with more skill than gentleness.
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