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"I'm sure tellin'," grinned Rope. "Me an' him's each dead certain that the other's a low down horse thief." The eyes of the two men met fairly. Both smiled. "Then I reckon you an' Tucson are lovin' one another about as well as me an' Leviatt," observed Ferguson. "There ain't a turruble lot of difference," agreed Rope. "An' so Tucson's likin' you a heap," drawled Ferguson absently.
"Three in this game would make it odd, Tucson," he said quietly. "If there's goin' to be any shootin', let's have an even break, anyway." Tucson's hand fell away from his holster; he stepped back toward the door, away from the range boss and Ferguson. Leviatt's face had crimsoned. "Mebbe I was runnin' a little bit wild " he began. "That's comin' down right handsome," said Ferguson.
Then came Ferguson's voice again, dry, filled with a quiet earnestness: "I ain't goin' to hurt you you're still tenderfoot with a gun. I just wanted to show these boys that you're a false alarm. I reckon they know that now." Leviatt sneered. There was a movement behind Ferguson. Tucson's gun was half way out of its holster. And then arose Rope's voice as his weapon came out and menaced Tucson.
I remember that for some offence against the powers of the day I was then "serving time" for a short while and, among other things, I cut shrub on the site of Tucson's Military Plaza, with an inelegant piece of iron chain dangling uncomfortably from my left leg. Oh, I wasn't a saint in those days any more than I am a particularly bright candidate for wings and a harp now!
He had been talking to a man named Tucson and it was to the latter that he had now spoken. "There's a heap of rattlers in this country," he had said. Evidently the statement was irrelevant, for Tucson's glance at Leviatt's face was uncomprehending. But Leviatt did not wait for an answer. "A man might easily claim to have been bit by one of them," he continued, his voice falling coldly.
I gave my superior officers fully as much trouble as the rest of 'em! Tucson's Military Plaza, it may be mentioned here, was, as stated, cleared by Company C, First United States Cavalry, and that body of troops was the only lot of soldiery that ever camped on that spot, which is now historic.
But since the shooting he had little doubt that Leviatt had been Tucson's companion on that day. Rope's scathing words spoken while Miss Radford had been trying to revive him . "You're a hell of a range boss," had convinced the stray-man that Leviatt had been one of the assailants.
Tucson's hand was also wrapped around the butt of his pistol. But before the muzzle of either man's gun had cleared its holster, there was a slight movement at the stray-man's sides and his two guns glinted in the white sunlight. There followed two reports, so rapidly that they blended. Smoke curled from the muzzles of the stray-man's pistols.
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