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Updated: June 22, 2025
He met Courtrey face to face in Corvan one day and spoke to him civilly, but Courtrey did not speak. Wylackie Bob did, however a sneering salutation that was a covert insult. Kenset touched his hat with dignity and passed on. "Of all th' tenderfeet!" said Baston, watching the small by-play. "I b'lieve you could spit on him, boys."
With him tonight were Black Bart, tall, swarthy, gimlet-eyed, a helf-breed Mexican, and Wylackie Bob his right-hand man. Without these two he seldom moved. They were both able lieutenants, experts with firearms. A formidable trio, the three went where and when they listed, and few disputed their right-of-way.
"I don't," spoke up Old Pete, shuffling by on his bandy legs, "sometimes that quiet, soft-spoken kind rises an' then hell's to pay in their veecinity." But Wylackie looked at the weazened snow-packer with his snake-like eyes and snapped out a warning. "Some folks takes sides too quick, sometimes." But Old Pete went on about his business.
It seemed as if she was detached, aloof, dead already in body as she was in soul.... And then she heard the drawling voice of Wylackie Bob and he was saying something unspeakable about her! She listened like one in a trance then she struggled up from her chair with tragic long arms extended, and the cry that rang from her lips was piteous.
They spread off to one side with jest and quip, with flash of bottle and slap on shoulder. The populace thinned a bit from the steps.... And then suddenly as a pistol shot Cleve Whitmore's voice rang out like a clarion. "Wylackie!" it pealed across the subdued noises, "You hell hound. Turn round!" There was death in it. The gun man whirled, drawing like lightning.
I've seen that big bay devil pull till th' blood dripped from his mouth." "Sure," put in Masters, "I've seen that, too but I was lyin' up on th' Cup Rim oncet, watchin' a couple mavericks fer funny work, an' Courtrey an' Wylackie Bob come along down that way on Bolt an' Arrow an' they wasn't a-holdin' them then.
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