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McCray because Willets was the county seat came to the office that had formerly been Moreton's, immediately following his election. He was slender, tall, and unprepossessing, and instantly created a bad impression. This news came to Ruth through her father, for she had not visited town since she had gone there to help Mrs. Lawler care for her son. She felt that she did not dare to leave the cabin.
Lawler, let me pass. I am in a great hurry, I cannot wait; and you won't say anything about meeting me in the wood, will you? 'Let you pass, indeed; and what do you think I came here for? Oh, I know all about it all about the corner of the road, and the carriage and post-horses! a very nice little plan and very nicely arranged, but I'm afraid it won't come off at least, not to-night.
Any country will, when there's too much law hangin' around loose!" He scowled and looked hard at Lawler. "We'll hold 'em at Willets, all right an' regular, until you give us the word to hit the Tom Long trail. But while you're gone I'm gettin' ready to travel for there won't be any cars, Lawler, an' don't you forget it!" Lawler said nothing in reply to Blackburn's vitriolic speech.
In the corners of the mullions were fine snow drifts; and through a small crevice in the roof a white spray filtered, ballooning around the room. The temperature was rapidly falling. During the silence which followed Lawler's words, and while the two fence cutters watched each other, and Lawler, all caught the voice of the storm, raging, furious, incessant.
She spent some time looking into the glass, combing her hair with a fragment of comb she found on a shelf beside the mirror. She had finished when she heard a knock on the door. She removed the bar, and when Lawler stepped in, closing the door instantly to keep out the rush of wind, she was standing in a corner, smiling demurely at him.
And how, later in the morning, he had returned to the shallow gulley on the plains where he had left Blackburn and the others, to find most of them dead. Blackburn and three more had been wounded, but had survived. "Fifteen men, Lawler!" raged Shorty; "fifteen men wiped out by that miserable gang of coyotes!
Lawler heard the Two Diamond men ride away, and he went to the door at the sound they made and saw they were carrying the bodies of Link and Givens they were lashed to their horses, which the Two Diamond men had taken from the dugout. He watched them out of sight. It was only an hour or so later when Davies and Harris clattered to the door of the cabin.
A yellow-haired giant among them grinned widely and pointed eloquently toward a bunk, where a man's body, swathed in blankets, could be seen. "That's him," said the yellow-haired giant. "He hit here this mornin', sayin' you'd hired him, an' that he was standin' straight up on his legs like a man, hereafter. We took him on under them conditions." Lawler strode to the bunk.
In his eyes was something that warned, that hinted of passion. As the men watched him, noting his muscular neck and shoulders; the slim waist of him, the set of his head which had that hint of conscious strength, mental and physical, which marks the intelligent fighter they shrank a little, glowering sullenly. Lawler stood close to the door, the pistol dangling from his right hand.
The wind was now roaring steadily, and with such force that no man could have faced it with uncovered face. It came over the vast emptiness of the northern spaces with a fury that sent into one the consciousness that here was an element with which man could not cope. Lawler emerged from the dugout and closed the door behind him. He barred it, turned and motioned the two men toward the cabin.
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