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The others halted in their slow march and, as if by tacit, unspoken word, lowered the body of Isbel to the ground. Then Blaisdell knelt beside Blue. Jean left Colmor to Gordon and hurried to peer down into Blue's dim face. "No, I ain't hurt," said Blue, in a much weaker voice. "I'm jest killed! ... It was Queen! ... Y'u all heerd me Queen was only bad man in that lot.
Attention to the wounded man occupied Ellen; and soon she redoubled her activities in this regard, finding in them something of protection against Colter. He had waylaid her as she went to a spring for water, and with a lunge like that of a bear he had tried to embrace her. But Ellen had been too quick. "Wal, are y'u goin' away with me?" he demanded. "No. I'll stick by my uncle," she replied.
"Y'u CAN play," was all he said, but the manner of it spoke volumes. For nearly an hour he kept her at the piano, and when at last he let her stop playing he seemed a man transformed. "You have given me a great pleasure, a very great pleasure, Miss Messiter," he thanked her warmly, his Western idiom sloughed with his villainy for the moment.
"Good luck!" the punchers called after them, and Denver added an ironical promise that the foreman had no doubt he would keep. "I'll look out for Nora Darling." There was a drawling pause between the first and second names. "I'll ce'tainly see that she don't have any time to worry about y'u, Mac." "Y'u go to Halifax," returned Mac genially over his shoulder as he loped away.
"Y'u talk a heap with your mouth. Nobody believes a word of what y'u say." Denver relaxed into a range song by way of repartee: "I want mighty bad to be married, To have a garden and a home; I ce'tainly aim to git married, And have a gyurl for my own." "Aw! Y'u fresh guys make me tired. Y'u don't devil me a bit, not a bit. Whyfor should I care what y'u say?
Then, "Why don't you believe it?" she added. He surveyed her with his smile audacious, let his amused eyes wander down from the mobile face with the wild-rose bloom to the slim young figure so long and supple, then serenely met her frown. "Y'u don't look it." "No? Are you the owner of a composite photograph of the teachers of the country?" He enjoyed again his private mirth.
"Jane, those hogs " stammered Esther Isbel, to the wife of Jacobs. "Come! Look! ... Do y'u know anythin' about hogs?" The woman ran to the window and looked out. She stiffened as had Esther. "Dad, will those hogs eat human flesh?" queried Jean, breathlessly. The old man stared out of the window. Surprise seemed to hold him. A completely unexpected situation had staggered him.
"But hit's this," Rome went on in an unsteady tone, "that he talks most about, 'n' I'm sorry myself that trouble's a-comm'." He dropped all pretence now. "I've been a-watchin' fer ye over thar on t' other shore a good deal lately. I didn't know ye at fust, Marthy" he spoke her name for the first time "'n' Gabe says y'u didn't know me.
Ellen, however, had to exert herself to get free of him, and when she had placed the table between them she looked him square in the eyes. "Daggs, y'u keep your paws off me," she said. "Aw, now, Ellen, I ain't no bear," he remonstrated. "What's the matter, kid?" "I'm not a kid. And there's nothin' the matter. Y'u're to keep your hands to yourself, that's all."
She looked away then, and presently pointed far out and down into the Basin. "There's Grass Valley. That long gray spot in the black. It's about fifteen miles. Ride along the Rim that way till y'u cross a trail. Shore y'u can't miss it. Then go down." "I'm much obliged to you," replied Jean, reluctantly accepting what he regarded as his dismissal.
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