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Updated: June 20, 2025
I can't thank you for all you've done for me sence you was a little mite of a girl five years back," his voice broke a bit, but he controlled it, "nor for th' joy you've given me th' rides together an' th' jokes an' playin' " He paused a moment, unhappily, and the mistress of Last's drooped more heavily against the old adobe wall.
That's th' gun, I make no doubt, an' Ellen knew it but if we're worth killin' we'll dig into this harder'n ever. Here's poor Thomas, makes one more notch on my record. I'm not sayin' quit! An' you're th' bravest man in Corvan, too!" At Last's Holding the Vigilantes stopped for rest and food. They had been in saddle the better part of forty-eight hours.
Billy set his teeth to keep from crushing her fingers, and together they rode slowly up along the sounding slopes to the beautiful security and comfort of Last's Holding. Kenset of the foothills was very busy. Between study of his maps and the endless riding of their claimed areas he was out from dawn till dark.
Then with an unconscious grace and poise that set well upon her as the mistress of Last's, Tharon moved into the open door and waited. As the stranger came closer both girls subjected him to a frank and careful scrutiny that in any other place than Lost Valley would have been rudeness itself. Here it catalogued the stranger, set the style of his welcome.
In the first place, you'd have some trouble in raising the money; in the second, I might be accused of playing Batley's game." "The last's ridiculous. But if I'm not to do anything, it brings me back to the question why am I staying here?" "I can't tell you that. I'll only suggest that if you hold out until you come into your property, you'll go back much more fit in several ways to look after it.
'Find trees in tongues, its running brooks in books, Stones in sermons, and I canna gang on ony farther wi' 't. The last's true ony gait. I winna gie ye ony toddy though." "I dinna want nane." "That's richt. Keep to that negation as an anchor o' the soul, sure and steadfast. There's no boddom to the sea ye'll gang doon in gin ye cut the cable that hauds ye to that anchor. Here's to ye!"
They said she could drive a nail farther than the ordinary man could see. They said she could draw so swiftly that the motion of the hands was lost. A slow excitement took the faction of the settlers. But out at Last's Holding a grave anxiety sat upon Tharon's riders. Conford knew and Billy knew and Curly knew more about Courtrey's intent than some of the others.
"I tell you, Curly," he complained to his friend of nights when they came in and lounged in the soft dusk by the bunk-house, "it's unnatural. Not that I don't pay full respect to Jim Last's memory, an' him th' best man in all this hell-bent Valley, but it ain't right an' natural fer no woman t' do what she's doin'. Ain't she Jim Last's own daughter already with th' guns? Sure.
"Oh, Billy," she said with a sound of tears in her voice, "Kenset's th' one man that's true, an' I'm helpless before th' fact but there'll never be another can take your place in my heart there'll never be no one to ride with me in th' Big Shadow in just th' same way, Billy to hold my hand as we come home to Last's with that same sweet, honest friendship, that don't need words!
Out in the horse corrals there were many more of their breed, slim, wiry horses, toughened and hardened by long hours and daily work, but these were the flower of Last's, the prized favourites. For a long time Tharon sat and watched them, noting their perfect condition, their glistening skins, their shining hoofs, many of which were striped, another characteristic.
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