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"It would be a good joke, Bud, if they took you back to town for this man," cut in Arlie, troubled at the direction the conversation was taking, but not obviously so. "I ain't objecting any, sis. About three days of the joys of town would sure agree with my run-down system," the Texan answered joyously.
I've been mighty lonesome the past two weeks," he said quietly. "You would be, of course. You are used to an active outdoor life, and I suppose the boys couldn't get round to see you very often." "I wasn't thinking of the boys," he meditated aloud. Arlie blushed; and to hide her embarrassment she called to Jimmie, who was passing: "Bring up Lieutenant Fraser's Teddy.
Briscoe viewed the scene with cynical malice. "Quite a hero, ain't he? If you want to know, I stand pat. Mr. Fraser from Texas don't draw the wool over my eyes none. Right now I serve notice to that effect. Meantime, since I don't aim to join the happy circle of his admirers, I reckon I'll duck." He nodded impudently at Arlie, turned on his heel, and went trailing off with jingling spur.
You're not to interfere between me and Struve. If some one else butts in, you may ask him why, if you like. "Ay bane t'ink yuh von fool, Steve. But Ay bane no boss. Vat yuh says goes." They found Arlie watering geraniums in front of the house. Siegfried merely nodded to her and passed on to the stables with the horses. Fraser dismounted, offering her his hand and his warm smile.
And she was innocently making it easy for him to meet on a friendly footing these hospitable, unsuspecting savages, who had shed human blood because of the unleashed passions in them! In that moment, while he looked away toward Lost Valley, he sickened of the task that lay before him. What would she think of him if she knew? Arlie, too, had been looking down the gulch toward the valley.
"No, we were just talking about you, doc." "Fire ahead, young woman," said the doctor, with assumed severity. "I'm here to defend myself now." "Alec was calling you an angel, and I was laughing at him," said the girl demurely. "An angel huh!" he snorted. "I never knew an angel that chewed tobacco, or one that could swear the way you do when you're mad," continued Arlie.
He is delirious. A man came to the window, and I shot at him. Oh, Dick, I'm so glad you're back." In her great joy, she put her arms round his neck and kissed him. Old Doctor Lee, dismounting more leisurely, drawled his protest. "Look-a-here, Arlie. I'm the doctor. Where do I come in?" "I'll kiss you, too, when you tell me he'll get well."
Arlie disappeared, and her aunt replaced her a few hours later and took charge of the patient. Steve took her desertion as an irritable convalescent does, but he did not let his disappointment make him unpleasant to Miss Ruth Dillon. "I'm a chump," he told himself, with deep disgust. "Hadn't any more sense than to go scaring off the little girl by handing out a line of talk she ain't used to.
"One of Byrnes's men," he said, in explanation; "came over expressly to take this chap. He's a burglar; 'Arlie' Lane, alias Carleton. I've shown the papers to the captain. It's all regular. I'm just going to get his traps at the hotel and walk him over to the station. I guess we'll push right on to New York to-night."
Such bravery, such feminine ferocity, such a burning passion of the spirit, was altogether outside of his experience of her or any other woman. He could no more resist her than he could fly to the top of Bald Knob. "I'll go, Arlie." "And bring help soon. Get Doc Lee here soon as you can. Leave word for armed men to follow. Don't wait for them." "No." "Take his Teddy horse.
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