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Wunpost cooked a hasty breakfast and fed and saddled his mules and then, as the Indian began to shout for help, he walked down and glanced at him inquiringly. "You let me go!" ordered the Indian, drawing himself up arrogantly and shaking the coarse hair from his eyes, and Wunpost laughed disdainfully. "Who are you?" he demanded, "and what you doing over here?
And Judson Eells, who had rushed out at the rumor of his approach, drew up his lip and glared at him hatefully. "You're a criminal!" he bellowed, "I could have you jailed for this that Stinging Lizard mine was salted!" "The hell you say!" shrilled Wunpost and then he laughed uproariously while he did a little jig in his stirrups. "Yeee hoo!" he yelled, "say, that's pretty good!
Wunpost had told him flat that he would not go near his mine, no one else knew even its probable location; and yet, when he had gone to him and suggested some compromise, Eells had refused even to consider it. Therefore he must have other plans in view.
"Why, sure," answered Wunpost, deftly easing off his kyacks and lowering the load to the ground. "Didn't I tell you I was going to get some?" "Yes, but " "But what?" he demanded, looking down on her arrogantly, and Wilhelmina became interested in the dog. "You have such a funny way of talking," she said at last, "and besides would you mind letting me look at it?"
"Git out of here!" he yelled, making a kick at Pisen-face Lynch; "git out, or I'll be the death of ye!" But Pisen-face Lynch recoiled like a rattlesnake and stood set with a gun in each hand. "Don't you think it," he rasped, and Wunpost turned away from him with a groan of mortal agony. "What does it say?" he demanded of Campbell. "Can he claim this mine, too?
The stubborn look on Billy's face suddenly gave place to one of doubt and then to one of swift decision. "I'll do it," she said. "We don't need to see Father just tell them that I've agreed. And when the time comes, send an Indian up to notify me and I'll ride down and sign the papers." "Good enough!" exclaimed Wunpost with a hint of his old smile. "I'll come up and tell you myself.
"Well, you tell your old man," burst out Wunpost brutally, "that he's crazy and I won't touch a cent. I guess I know how to get my rights without any help from him." "Why, what do you mean?" she queried tremulously, but he shut his mouth down grimly. "Never mind," he said, "you just hold your breath, and listen for something to drop. I ain't through, by no manner of means."
She knew now what Wunpost had meant when he had described the outside world and the men they would meet at the rush, yet for all his hard-won knowledge he had gone down once more before Judson Eells and his gang.
But now he was stampeded, though why they could not guess, for he had never feared Wunpost before. "Oh, don't go!" cried Wilhelmina; "we were just waiting for you to come. Please come back I want to have it over with." She flew to the door and held it open and Eells and his lawyer filed in. "Don't let me disturb you," said Wunpost grimly and stood with his back to the wall.
The assays had shown that his pay-ore was limited and that soon the Willie Meena must close, and now he was taking the last of his surplus and making a desperate fight for the Sockdolager. Half the new mine was his, according to law, and since Wunpost had dared him to do his worst he was taking him at his word. And Wunpost at last was getting scared, though not exactly of Eells.
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