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Months of right living, days and nights of honest labor shoulder to shoulder with men who respected him for his ability and accepted him as one of themselves, had made a new man of him, although the legacy of hatred from the old Tex had disguised him from himself until now; but the new Tex, battered, shot-up, nearly drowned, looked at his old enemy and saw him for the man he really was.
Pan never missed one of these Sunday visits, and the time came when he rode over on his own account. Lucy was the most satisfactory cowgirl in all the world. She did not object to his being Tex. She tried her best to call him Tex. And she crawled after him and toddled after him with unfailing worship. The grown folks looked on and smiled.
'I will say my tex' to him, and make him learn it, and und'stand it. 'Does blessed mean happy? asked True. 'Yes. 'I didn't think I'd ever be happy again when mother went away, but I feel a little better now. Will you take us one day to see her grave, or is it too far? 'I think we must manage it one day, dear, said Lady Isobel drawing the little motherless girl near her.
Had he really been pleased to find that the new hand was not a friend of Tex Lynch, or was the idea merely a product of Buck's imagination? Still pondering, he turned abruptly to find Pedro regarding him intently from the kitchen door.
He was thinking sleepily that next year he would plant flowers in boxes that could be carried to the cave if the Indians broke out again, when Tex Farley poked him in the ribs and told him to wake up or he'd fall off his horse. It was a weary climb to the top of the range that divided the valley of Big Creek from the North Platte, and a wearier climb down.
Pablo spoke to his team and they moved ahead. For a moment the horsemen watched, then Tex spoke. "All set, boys?" "All set," came the answer. Wheeling about, the five men rode rapidly in the opposite direction towards Devil's Canyon. Willard Holmes, after a few hours of refreshing sleep and a good breakfast prepared and served by his hostess with her own hands, announced himself as well as ever.
Nearly two years had passed since the man had described the place to Tex and a two-year-old description of a certain small, carefully concealed cavern in a rock-wall pitted with innumerable similar caverns is a mighty slender peg to hang hopes upon. "It's like searching for buried treasure!" exclaimed Alice as she pried and prodded among the rocks with a stout stick.
Tex repeated the story as he had heard it from a bibulous member of the Barred Horseshoe, and then added a little of torture as a sauce to whet their appetites for revenge. "How did Trendley cash in?" Asked Porous. "Nobody knows except that bum from th' Tin-Cup. I'll get him later. I'd a got Cassidy up in Santa Fe, too, if it wasn't for th' sun in my eyes.
Endicott smiled: "Haven't I improved enough, yet, for 'Win'? Tex thinks so." The girl regarded him critically. "I have a great deal of respect for Tex's judgment," she smiled. "Then, dear, I am going to ask you again, the question I have asked you times out of number: Will you marry me?" "Don't spoil it all, now, please. I am enjoying it so. Enjoying being here with just you and the big West.
The historic colored preacher who held forth so strenuously after the Civil War has almost become obsolete, but in certain sections he still holds his own, as the following sermon, taken from Life, will show: Brederen an' Sisterin: I done read de Bible from kiver to kiver, from lid to lid an' from end to end, an' nowhar do I find a mo' 'propriate tex' at dis time, when de whole worl' is scrimmigin' wid itse'f, dan de place whar Paul Pinted de Pistol at de Philippines an' said, "Dou art de man."
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