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So all a person can do is shoot them if you catch them at it. I don't know what Hargus will do to get even with this morning's humiliation." "I think he'll leave that fence alone like it was charged with lightnin'," Taterleg said. "He'll try to turn something; he's wily and vindictive." "He needs a chunk of lead about the middle of his appetite," Taterleg declared. "Who comes next?"
"It would serve you right if I made you dig up the whole graveyard, single-handed," said Tom; "and if you had a spark of proper feeling, Bill Hargus, you'd fall on your knees and beg my parding for having acted like such a damned ninny!" I would have answered him back in his own coin if I hadn't felt so bad about it all, and rattled, besides.
Why, we'll say fifteen per cent., if you like." "I don't lend my money," exclaimed Hargus, shaking his head. "I ain't got any to lend," and with the words took himself off. One source of help alone Jadwin left untried. Sorely tempted, he nevertheless kept himself from involving his wife's money in the hazard.
He believed they intended to kill him and throw his body in the fire. Old Nick Hargus and his son had it in their power at last to take satisfaction for the humiliation to which he had bent them. A thousand regrets for his simplicity in falling into their trap came prickling him with their momentary torture, succeeded by wild gropings, frantic seekings, for some plan to get away.
"If you'd 'a' had your gun on you this morning when them fellers knocked that old coon down I bet there'd 'a' been a funeral due over at old Hargus' ranch," said Taterleg. "I'd saddled up to go to the post office; I never carry a gun with me when I go to Glendora," she said. "A country where a lady has to carry a gun at all ain't no country to speak of.
Jadwin turned to Hargus, with a solemn wink. "He did slam it after all, didn't he?" The old fellow, however, sat fingering the two checks in silence. Then he looked up at Jadwin, scared and trembling. "I I don't know," he murmured, feebly. "I am a very old man. This this is a great deal of money, sir. I I can't say; I I don't know. I'm an old man ... an old man." "You won't lose 'em, now?"
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