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Updated: June 4, 2025
I wondered how you'd get along. You left no word. When I realized that you must have wanted to leave me, that settled it. Following you would have done no good, even if I had known where you had gone. I was free. And a gunman has no business with a family." "You might have thought about that before you came courting me." "I did. Didn't you?" "You're hard, Jim. I was just a girl.
Pete knew Spanish he had heard little else spoken in Concho and he thought that "Joseph of the Cross" was a strange name for a recognized gunman. "But Mexicans always stick crosses over graves," soliloquized Pete. "Mebby that's why he's got that fancy name. Gee! But this sure beats tendin' store!" Much that Annersley had taught Pete was undone in the lazy, listless life of the sheep-camp.
There were rough and tough men in the crowd who were quite ready for trouble; but their readiness did not extend to rushing a gunman unless an urgent necessity existed. Farwell broke through them, breathless from a sprint at top speed. He paid no attention whatever to McHale's weapon. "What's the matter here?" he demanded. "You, Lewis, speak up!"
"I'm drawin' it now!" sneered the gunman. "I ain't workin' for no pussy-kitten specimen which spends his time gallivantin' around the country with a girl, makin' believe he's bossin', when " Here he added something that made the outfit gasp and stiffen. As he neared the conclusion of the speech, his right hand fell to his gun-holster.
The others exclaimed and leaped off their horses to view the prostrate form with that curiosity and strange fear common to all men confronted by sight of sudden death. That emotion was only momentary. "Shot his lamp out!" ejaculated Moze. "Wonder how Gunman Riggs liked thet plumb center peg!" exclaimed Shady Jones, with a hard laugh. "Back of his head all gone!" gasped young Burt.
One of these days there's sure goin' to be sudden trouble." "I'm no gunman," protested Clanton indignantly. "I hired out to the old man to punch cows. Whyfor should I take any chances with the Snaith-McRobert outfit when I ain't got a thing in the world against them?" "No, you're no gunman," grinned his friend in amiable derision. "Jimmie-Go-Get-'Em is a quiet little Sunday-go-to-meetin' kid.
Anyway "Soapy Smith," a notorious gunman and gambler, who was eventually killed by a United States Marshal who was going to arrest him and who was killed by "Soapy" at the same time, both firing at one moment, had, with a big gang like himself, terrorized Skagway and the trails for months.
"I wish I knew what to make of Grafton," mused the colonel, "His share in it if share he had is getting more complicated. Can he and Spotty be up to some trick between them and did the gunman get away with the cross? It wouldn't be the first time Spotty had hired out his services to a man who wanted something desperate done! Now in this case, Grafton may have wanted something from Mrs.
You see, it was the outcome of a brawl. There's no one to arrest yet." "Who did shoot him up? The other 'gunman'? Josh spoke of two. Can't he be got? He could give Shaunbaum away maybe." "That's so. Guess that's most how it stands. Maybe it was the other 'gunman." Murray's satisfaction was obvious. He nodded. "Sure. It's Shaunbaum's play. There's no question. Everybody got it ahead.
"Toads are fat animals," he corrected her. "I'm not. More like a bullfrog, if you like. What am I going to do? Why, just squat, I guess." As he leaned back against the limb which offered its support to his shoulders Terry noted that he wore in full sight at his side the heavy Colt he had bought the other night in Red Creek. A new habit, with Steve Packard. "Gunman, are you?" she jeered.
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