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"Well, he'll have to vamose who is he?" "Englishman 'Walter Spotteswood Montgomery," consulting his book. "Hell of a pompous duck; the boys call him 'Juke Montgomery." "All right; send some one up to rout his lordship out lively."
We mounted our ponies, old Jerry called out in a cherry tone, "Vamose!" the teamsters cracked their whips, the mules pulled with a will, and we fell in behind the wagons, and were at last fairly on the road, bound for the "Golden State."
I've always give you a square deal, and I thought you was a man. I've heard some queer stories about you shootin' one or two men in a peculiar way, but I never believed 'em. Now if you're just havin' a little fun with me, Shark, put your gun up, and we'll get on Bolivar and vamose. If you mean to shoot shoot, you blackhearted son of a tarantula!" Shark Dodson's face bore a deeply sorrowful look.
If you once threw a leg over that blue roan, I can see where some of us would do some riding." "If I'd been thinkin' of leavin' you, it would 'a' been afore we got here, sheriff." "So it's 'sheriff' now, and not Jim, eh?" "It sure is if you're thinkin' o' lockin' me up. You treated me white back there in El Paso so I'm tellin' you that if you lock me up and I git a chanct, I'll sure vamose."
But there was a gentle sound of heavy breathing, and I knew Lon McFane was asleep. "It is the judgment of this court that you vamose the camp . . . in the customary way, sir, in the customary way." Judge Marcus O'Brien was absent-minded, and Mucluc Charley nudged him in the ribs. Marcus O'Brien cleared his throat and went on
If we quarrel with them, we have to vamose; if we fight, we are wiped out. Further, we've struck pay, and, by God! I, for one, am going to stick by it!" "Ditto here," supplemented Wertz. Hitchcock turned impatiently to Sigmund, who was softly singing, "In a year, in a year, when the grapes are ripe, I shall stay no more away."
We ride in and repo't that Ortez says O.K. that his vaqueros are comin' for the cattle and that he is comin' with the cash. Brent won't bat an eye. I know him. He'll jest tell you to take the dough and ride to Sanborn and take the train for El Paso. Then he'll vamose." "How's that?" "'Cause he knows that this is the finish.
Old Atasca, an untrained Indian nurse, sat near the door like a petrified statue of What's-the-Use, attending to her duties, which were, mainly, to see that time went by without slipping a cog. Sometimes I would fancy myself back in the Philippines, or, at worse times, sliding off the horsehair sofa in Sleepytown. One afternoon I ordered Atasca to vamose, and got up and dressed carefully.
"What did you make it for?" he almost whispered. "To know if we'd make the break we talked about and vamose the ranch. It's the FIFTH time today," continued the Right Bower in a voice of gloomy significance. "And it went agin bad cards too."
"San Felipe is too small to hold both of us!" "Bueno," said The Kid calmly. "I wish yo' luck yo'll need it. But in the meantime vamose pronto!" Swearing angrily, the two men obeyed. It seemed the healthiest thing to do just then. They slunk out like whipped curs, but The Kid knew their breed. He would see them again.
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