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Mingled with the bones that had fallen apart with the passing of centuries, was a drawn sword of blackened hilt and rusted blade a sword of old Spanish make and in the dust of a rotted purse lay a small heap of gold coins of strange design. "Well, pard," said Brick Willock grimly, "you come here first and much obliged to you.
One thing I am sot on: not to save nothing if I can bring my stomach to carry the burden with a willing hand. I'll eat mild and calm, but steadfast. Brick Willock he says, 'Better starve all at once, when there's nothing left, than starve a little every day, says Brick. 'When it's a matter of agony, says he, 'take the short cut."
Don't kill her, men " He turned impassioned eyes on the leader. "Look at her so young so unsuspecting you can't have the heart to murder a child like that in cold blood." "Right you are!" exclaimed the man with the ferocious whiskers he who had been spoken of as Brick Willock. "You'll have to go, pard, but I'm against killing infants."
"Dark was a-coming on before the party got plumb scared," Willock continued, "but they brushed and combed that mountain looking for the poor lost lady, and as I tells 'em she's a-hiding a-purpose, they think it a pore sort of joke till midnight catches 'em mighty serious. Torches is carried here and there and everywhere, but no use.
It looked so peaceful and secure, and its openness to the sunshine was so alluring, that Willock resolved to descend the steep wall.
During the two years passed by Brick Willock in dreary solitude, conditions about him had changed. The hardships of pioneer life which, fifty years ago, had obtained in the Middle States yet prevailed, in 1882, in the tract of land claimed by Texas under the name of Greer County; but the dangers of pioneer life were greatly lessened.
Stowing away the rope-ladder in a secure fissure between two giant blocks of granite, each the size of a large two-story house, he crossed to the first ridge, and looked out over the prairie, to triumph over the vacant spot where the covered wagon had stood fifteen hours before. "No telling what a man can do," he exclaimed admiringly, "that is to say, if his name is Brick Willock."
In the first place, Gledware had placed himself on record as a witness, hence could hardly retreat; in the second place, he would doubtless be anxious to rid himself of the danger of ever meeting Willock, whom his conscience must have caused him to hate with the hatred of the man who wrongs his benefactor. Willock transferred all his rage against the dead enemy to the living.
Willock, careful not to show himself, stared at the skiff as it shot out from the landing, his brow wrinkled in anxious thought. He felt strange and dizzy, and at first fancied it was because of the resolution that had taken possession of him the resolution to return to Greer County and give himself up.
Would she be as glad as Willock and Bill Atkins, when she recognized him? Even one half as glad? He sighed deeply it was not to be expected. She had known him only an hour; since then, many settlers had invaded the country about the Granite Mountains, a city had sprung up, not far away other towns were peeping through the sand, and blooming from canvas to wood and brick.
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