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Open defiance was one thing Steve had not looked for. "Looking for more trouble yet, Blenham?" he asked briefly. Blenham shrugged. "I'm tendin' to business," he said slowly. "No, I'm not lookin' for trouble yet. Since you want to know, I'm hazin' them cow-brutes the shortes' way off'n Number Ten an' on to the North Trail.
"A little more luck like this," she cried as once more they took to the road, "and Blenham will put one over on us yet!" It was borne in upon Steve that Terry's fears might prove to be only too well founded. The time she had taken to drive to him at his ranch, the time lost in returning to her home and in changing tires and mending a puncture, had been put to better use by Blenham.
Have you signed up with Blenham already?" Temple sought to assume an air of dignity which went poorly with his ragged slippers and bleary eye. "Blenham has his money in a safe in Red Creek. There will be papers to be signed. We are going there now. I I am sorry you take it this way, Teresa." Then she sprang to her feet, her two hands clenched, her eyes blazing.
For a little Steve Packard gnawed at his lip, caught in an eddy of helpless rage. Never an answer from Blenham, never an answer from Woods; angry already, their silences maddened him. Across the creek he saw the cook standing in his kitchen door, listening and smiling in sickly fashion; two or three of the men, coming out for their breakfasts, were watching him.
Seven steers dead, some more sick. An'," the explanation coming quickly, "Barbee's got the hunch Blenham had rode on ahead an' had poisoned the water-holes an' " "Damn him!" cried Steve, a sudden fury seeming to leap out upon him and take him by the throat. "Am I to stand everything from that man and from my old fiend of a grandfather?
Blenham could put a look like that into his eye; to him a girl was a thing that might be both sneered at and coveted. "My dear," said Temple, striving for clear enunciation and in the end achieving it heavily, "I am glad you came. I want you to listen. We must act wisely. We must not misjudge Mr. Blenham." While Terry remained silent, looking from one to the other of the two men.
As the days went by Packard's fame grew. There were tales that in a savage mêlée with Blenham he had eliminated that capable individual's right eye; and though there were those who had had it from some of the Ranch Number Ten boys that Blenham's loss was the result of an accident, still it remained unquestioned that Blenham had suffered injury at Packard's ranch and had been driven forth from it.
As Barbee came on and Steve came just behind him, the figures of Blenham and Terry were both gone as though the mountain-side had split for them and closed after them. "They've got in a hole," called out Barbee. "Them mountains is full of caves. They can't get away far." As they went up the steep slope Barbee was still in the lead. He mounted to the shelf of rock on which Terry had been standing.
The ever-ready Packard temper was getting into Steve's head, beating in his temples, pounding along his pulses. He had never had a man bait him like that before. But he strove to remember Blenham only, to take stock of the fact that this was a bit of Blenham's game, and that any trouble with another than Blenham was to be avoided at this juncture.
Arranging to meet your friends here! Steve Packard, you are the the the " "Go on," he prompted. "You'll need a cuss-word now; any other finish will sound flat." " the Packardest Packard I ever heard of!" she concluded. "You and your friend " "No more my friend than he is yours," he said, interrupting her. "An individual named Blenham.
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