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"I will answer you," said Hardman Pool. "It is so because most men are fools, and therefore must be taken care of by the few men who are wise. Such is the secret of chiefship. In all the world are chiefs over men. In all the world that has been have there ever been chiefs, who must say to the many fool men: 'Do this; do not do that.
"There! Once more!..." cried Pan, panting. "Remember the schoolhouse? That fight over Lucy Blake! Damn your skunk soul!... Get up, if you've got a gun!" Hardman leaned on his hand. His high hat had rolled away. His broadcloth suit was covered with dust. But he did not note these details of his abasement.
"I'll hunt Brown up and persuade him to make the wild-horse drive with us. He's " "By George, I forgot some more," interrupted Smith, slapping his leg. "Bill said Wiggate broke with Jard Hardman. Wiggate started this wild-hoss buyin' an' shippin' east. Hardman had to get his finger in the pie. Now Wiggate is a big man an' he has plenty of money. I always heard him well spoken of.
It was sure great. If only Jim does his part!" "You doubt that, Dad?" "Shore do. But I'll tell you, Pan. If we could be with Jim all the time we could pull him up." "Let's hope he's far on the way to Siccane by now.... Does Lucy know? I hope you didn't tell her about my meeting with Hardman and Matthews?" "I didn't. But Bill shore did," replied his father. "Reckon I would have squealed, though.
The girl evidently did not encourage her son's suit that favoured the Lady Elizabeth project; 'but, thought Mrs Hardman, drawing herself up to her full height, does a lawyer's daughter reject the heir of the Hardmans?
"This is the bullet that killed Hardman," said Wiggate gravely. "It was never fired from your gun. I shall take pains to make this evident in Marco." "I don't know that it matters but I'm sure much obliged," returned Pan with warmth. "Well, I'll do it anyhow. I've been fooled by Hardman and, if you want to know it, cheated too. That's why I broke with him."
Pan looked steadily at her tear-wet face, seeing Lucy differently. She was not a baby any more. For some strange reason beyond his understanding he was furious with her. Pushing her aside he strode toward the group of boys, leering close by. Dick Hardman, a strapping big lad now, edged back into the crowd. Pan violently burst into it, forcing the boys back, until he confronted his adversary.
"What's their game?" he asked swiftly, indicating the watching whispering group. "I had only a few words with Hardman. Your dad went out of his haid. Reckon he'd have done fer Hardman with his bare hands, if Purcell hadn't knocked him down with the butt of a gun." Again there was a violent leap of Pan's blood. It jerked his whole frame. "Blink, did that big brute?
Besides, I have yet to learn that she reciprocates the attachment which you say Mr Herbert evinces for her. The correct light in which Dodbury thus considered the matter, induced Mrs Hardman to change her policy. After complimenting the lawyer and Catherine for their honourable forbearance, she went on to say that she unhappily had but little influence over her son.
Her son said a few words in a low tone, which caused the colour to mount into the young lady's cheek; the listener overheard her reply 'Mr Hardman, it can, it must never be! and withdrawing her arm from his, entered the fort unsupported. These words at once pleased and displeased the ambitious mother.
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