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It seemed more likely he'd arrived after the show than before. It wouldn't be like him, either, to go plowing up the side of the ditch, with his partner on the other side, making a trail that a blind man could follow in the night. Soon as I knew Lee and Boone made those tracks, I had it cinched that they were following the lateral to see where the robber was going.
"I rather think, my dear Jenkins," observed Raffles Holmes, "that we have that $13,000 reward cinched." "There's $7000 for you, Jenkins," said Holmes, a week later, handing me his check for that amount. "Easy money that. It only took two weeks to turn the trick, and $14,000 for fourteen days' work is pretty fair pay.
"Please." Kate gave them no more time for dwelling on the past. "You did ride so splendidly," she told Curly. "No better than Dick did," he protested. "I didn't say any better than Dick. You both did fine." "The judges will say you ride better. You've got first place cinched," Maloney contributed. "Sho! Just because I cut up fancy didoes on a horse. Grandstand stunts are not riding.
Sponsilier and I took advantage of the delay and fortified the inner man against the night and the ride before us. This proved fortunate, as Lovell and my brother had supper en route in the dining-car. A running series of questions were asked and answered; saddles were shaken out of gunny-sacks and cinched on waiting horses as though we were starting to a prairie fire.
His mount, a compact cayuse from west of the Rockies, bore no saddle beyond a folded blanket cinched on with a rawhide band. For weapons Bridger carried no firearms at all, but bore a short buffalo bow of the Pawnees double-curved, sinew-backed, made of the resilient bois d'arc, beloved bow wood of all the Plains tribes.
Plainly he had no doubt that "Big Jim" was directing the fight in person. Far was it from me to undeceive him! Another interval. Then he reported a drop of a hundred points. "The bottom is beginning to fall out, I honestly believe. They think you've done 'em again. I am spreading the report that you have the control cinched.
Bob's voice rang out again "153 for any part of 10,000 Sugar." Again the gamblers closed in and for another five minutes the opening scene was duplicated, with only a shade less fierceness. After ten minutes' mad trading a mighty burst of sound told that Sugar was 160 bid. Then Bob worked his way out of the crowd, and passing by me fairly hissed, "By heaven, Jim, I've got them cinched!"
White stars were whirling, the ground was white, the forest was half obliterated. He shook Adan and dragged him to his feet. "We must get into the redwoods at once," he said. "We shall be buried here." Adan gasped but cinched his saddle; the boys sprang upon the now tractable mustangs and plunged into the forest below.
Well, he thought he had me cinched, and I sold out for twenty thousand dollars. And now, my friend, you said a moment ago that I'd never seen seven thousand dollars. All right, I say you never did! But just, by grab, to show you who's four-flushing I'll put you out of your misery I'll show you seven thousand, savvy?"
The black stallion had whinnied once or twice during this time and the great black, shaggy dog had come snarling and whining about the feet of his master. Now the stranger tossed on the saddle and cinched it with amazing speed, sprang onto his mount, and urged it across to the other side of the corral.
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