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Updated: May 17, 2025
"But I do want him to come here as if it mattered nothing, and I shall try to take care of him. I have a man among your own men, a cowboy named Wickwire, who will be watching Karg, and who is just as quick, and Karg, not knowing he was watched, would be taken unawares. If Wickwire goes elsewhere to work some one else will take his place here.
Wickwire overtook Smith in Fort Street. "Talk quick, Wickwire," he said; "I'm in a hurry. What do you want?" "Partner, I've always played fair with you." "So far as I know, Wickwire, yes. Why?" "I've got a favor to ask." "What is it money?" "No, partner, not money this time. You've always been more than liberal with me. But so far I've had to keep under cover; you asked me to.
In a moment he brought him in. Dicksie had seated herself on the sofa, McCloud stood in the doorway of the dining-room, and Whispering Smith laid one arm on the table as he sat down beside it with his face above the dark shade of the lamp. Before him stood Wickwire.
Banks turned and opened on him, and Wickwire ducked for the creek. Sinclair put a soft bullet through Banks's shoulder tore it pretty bad, Gordon and made his get-away before Wickwire and I could reach the barn again. I got Ed on his horse and back to Wickwire's, and we sent one of the boys to Oroville for a doctor.
He named four: first, Farrell Kennedy, who was in town, and said nobody should go if he didn't; Frank Elpaso, the Texan; the Englishman, Tommie Meggeson; and Wickwire, if he could be located any one of them, Lefever knew, could give an account of himself under all circumstances. While Scott was getting his men together, de Spain, accompanied by Lefever, was riding toward Music Mountain.
"I thought you was entitled to know," he said finally, "now that Sassoon will never talk any more." De Spain moistened his lips. When he spoke his voice was cracked and harsh, as if with what he had heard he had suddenly grown old. "You are right, Pardaloe. I thank you. I when I in the morning. Pardaloe, for the present, go back to the Gap. I will talk with Wickwire to-morrow."
They meant now to get him, with a trail or without, and were putting horseflesh against horseflesh and craft against craft. At the forks of the Fence they picked up Wickwire, Kennedy taking him on the up road, while Scott with Whispering Smith crossed to the Crawling Stone.
"Banks and I picked up Wickwire on the Crawling Stone early, and we rode over to the Frenchman. Wickwire said Sinclair had been up at Williams Cache the day before, and he didn't think he was home. Of course I knew the Cache was watched and he wouldn't be there long, so Ed asked me to stay in the cottonwoods and watch the creek for him.
Above him at some distance, Wickwire and Smith stood before a man who leaned against the sharp cheek of the bowlder at the point. In his hands his rifle was held across his lap just as he had dropped on his knee to fire. He had never moved after he was struck.
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