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Now if we should spoil a posse and bump off one or two of them, we couldn't pile up evidence enough to get a jury to acquit. No, sir! We can't surrender and we can't fight. Consequence is, we got to roll our tails immediate." "We have an appointment with Miss Messiter and Nora for to-morrow morning. We'll have to leave word we can't keep it." "Sure.
"I should like a porterhouse with mushrooms," he announced promptly. "You can't have it. You know what the doctor said." Very peremptorily she smiled this at him. "He's an old granny, Miss Messiter." "You may have an egg on toast." "Make it two," he pleaded. "Excitement's just like caviar to the appetite, and seeing y'u safe " "Very well two," she conceded.
"I got off," interposed Reddy hastily, displaying a complexion like a boiled beet. "He got off," Mac explained gravely to the increasing audience. Denver nodded with an imperturbable face. "He got off." Mac introduced Miss Messiter to such of her employees as were on hand.
With the casual democracy of the frontier they had together escorted Helen Messiter and Nora Darling through a riotous three hours of carnival, taking care to get them back to their hotel before the night really began "to howl." But after they had left the young women, neither of them cared to sleep yet.
For, though she was a young woman not much given to curiosity, she was aware of an interest in this spare, broad-shouldered youth who was such an incarnation of bronzed vigor. "Glad to meet y'u, Miss Messiter," he responded, and offered his firm brown hand in Western fashion. But she observed resentfully that he did not mention his own name.
Miss Messiter did not know much about Wyoming human nature in the raw, but she had learned enough to be sure that the soft courtesy of these two youths covered a stark courage that might leap to life any moment. Wherefore she interposed. "We'll be pleased to show you over the place, Mr. Bannister. As it happens, we are close to the hospital. Shall we begin there?"
"Do you lie down and let Mr. Bannister and his kind drive their sheep over you?" "Do we, Soapy?" grinned Texas. Yet it seemed to her his smile was not quite carefree. "I'm not a cowman myself," explained Soapy to the girl. "Nor do I run sheep. "Tell Miss Messiter what yore business is, Soapy," advised Yorky from the end of the table, with a mouthful of biscuit swelling his cheeks.
"Glad to see you here, Miss Messiter," he said, his sinister gaze attempting to meet hers frankly "I been looking for you every day." "But y'u managed to surprise him, after all ma'am," chuckled Mac. "Where's yo' hawss, Reddy?" inquired a tall young man, who had appeared silently in the doorway of the bunkhouse. Reddy pinked violently. "I had an accident, Denver," he explained.
"I reckon we might as well let it go at that," he returned, with bitter briefness. Two months before this time Helen Messiter had been serenely teaching a second grade at Kalamazoo, Michigan, notwithstanding the earnest efforts of several youths of that city to induce her to retire to domesticity "What's the use of being a schoolmarm?" had been the burden of their plaint.
"Which means, I suppose, that you are not going to tell me." "I got so much else to tell y'u that's a heap more important," he laughed. "Y'u see, I'm enjoyin' my first automobile ride. It was certainly thoughtful of y'u to ask me to go riding with y'u, Miss Messiter." "So you know my name. May I ask how?" was her astonished question.
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