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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.
"I'm turruble pleased to see yu'," he had said, immediately. "What's happened?" said I, in some concern at his appearance. And he piteously explained: "Why, I've been here all alone since yesterday!" This was indeed all; and my hasty impressions of shooting and a corpse gave way to mirth over the child and his innocent grievance that he had blurted out before I could get off my horse.
Then he laid off an' hit me in the jaw. Ah don't know what Ah done next, but before Ah knowed it Ah had a hold of a shuck-in' knife and was slashin' at him with it. A knife like that's a turruble thing to stab a man with. It took four of 'em to hold me down an' git it away from me. They didn't keep me from givin' him a good cut across the chest, though. Ah was juss crazy drunk at the time.
"Her and her crucifix!" repeated young Lin McLean, staring at this interpretation, which was beyond his lively understanding. "Her and her crucifix. Turruble lonesome company! Well, them are things yu' don't know about. I kind o' laughed myself the first time I seen her at it. Hank, he says to me soft, 'Come here, Lin, and I peeped in where she was a-prayin'. She seen us two, but she didn't quit.
But that's why," he broke out, impetuously, "I quit you on Bear Creek so sudden. 'When she goes back away home, I'd been saying to myself every day, 'what'll you do then, Lin McLean? Well, I knew I'd go to Kentucky too. Just knew I'd have to, yu' see, and it was inconvenient, turruble inconvenient Billy here and my ranch, and the beef round-up comin' but how could I let her go and forget me?
"And your wife was jest beautiful about Andy. You've saw me wicked to Andy. I am, and often, for I rile turruble quick, and God forgive me! But when that boy gits at his meanness yu've seen jest a touch of it there's scarcely livin' with him. It seems like he got reg'lar inspired. Some days he'll lie make up big lies to the fust man comes in at the door. They ain't harmless, his lies ain't.
And when I seen you so unexpected again to-night, and you just the same old Lin, scaring Lusk with shooting them chickens, so comic and splendid, I could 'a' just killed Lusk sittin' in the wagon. Say, Lin, what made yus do that, anyway?" "I can't hardly say," said the cow-puncher. "Only noticing him so turruble anxious to quit me well, a man acts without thinking." "You always did, Lin.
But if you," he said, "never come to look away up to a woman from away down, and mean to win her just the same as if you did deserve her, why, you'll make a turruble mess of the whole business!" When we walked in silence for a long while, he lighted again with the blossoming dawn of his sentiment.
"It's a bad thing, Mester Dick, bringing straangers into a plaace. Yow nivver know what characters they've got. Why, I do believe it's a turruble thing to say that some of they lads at work at big dree-ern hevven't got no characters at all." "Here be Hickathrift a-coming wi' doctor," said John Warren.
"Sure!" exclaimed the proprietor, heartily, "We'll see that everybody lets this thing alone." The Virginian gave a general nod to the company, and walked out into the street. "It's a turruble shame," sighed Scipio, "that he couldn't have postponed it." The Virginian walked in the open air with thoughts disturbed. "I am of two minds about one thing," he said to himself uneasily.
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