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"Someone might take it into their head to bore me with a rifle bullet." Radford's grin broadened. "I reckon you're wastin' valuable time," he declared. "For I happen to know that she wouldn't throw nothing worse'n a posy at you!" "You don't say?" returned Ferguson seriously. "I reckon " He abruptly turned his pony down the trail that led to the cabin.
It was a few days after that, that the news came to mother of Aunt Radford's illness, and she had to go up to Oxenham. Father went with her, but he came back the same night. Mother had made up her mind to stay a week. And so we had to keep house without her. One afternoon Grandfather Holabird came down.
While he had been talking he had contrived to throw the left side of his vest open, and his right hand was exposed in the dim light a heavy six-shooter gleaming forebodingly in it. His arms were still crossed, but as he talked he had turned a very little and now the muzzle of the weapon was at a level trained fairly upon Radford's breast.
The underplay of meaning was not the only subtleness of the speech, for the tone in which it had been uttered was rich in interrogation, as though its author, while realizing the pony's dimness of perception, half believed the animal had noticed Miss Radford's lapse of hospitality.
"Anything new?" questioned the latter, as he had questioned Leviatt. "Nothin' doin'," returned Ferguson. Leviatt now turned from the window. He spoke to Stafford, sneering. "Ben Radford's quite a piece away from where he's hangin' out," he said. He again turned to the window. Ferguson's lips smiled, but his eyes narrowed. Stafford stiffened in his chair.
So Peggy had kept them on a shelf in his "office" for several years, and now, when his eye chanced to light upon them, he gave a snort of triumph and pounced upon them eagerly. Mr. Merrick was a newcomer. Without doubt he could be induced to buy a copy of Radford's Lives.
The first man's pistol had appeared just a fraction of a second sooner, and they saw that it was poised, menacing the rustler. For an instant the two men were motionless. Ferguson felt the grasp on his arm tighten, and he turned his head to see Miss Radford's face, pale and drawn; her eyes lifted to his with a slow, dawning horror in them. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "They are going to shoot!"
'Duke Radford's New Friend Mr. Selincourt suffered but little ill effects from his accident. He stayed in bed two days to ward off any danger of swamp fever, but on the third morning got up at his usual hour, and after breakfast had himself rowed across the river, and paid a visit to the store. Early as it was, Katherine and Phil had already started for an Indian encampment on Ochre Lake, so Mr.
They had a wedding in Colonel Radford's dining room and a preacher on the place married them. They told me. My father was a Presbyterian preacher. I heard papa preach at Lynchburg. He had a white principle but no white blood. I never knew him very much till long after freedom. "Miss Betty Radford was raising me for a house girl. I was younger than her children.
He's gettin' a hundred dollars a month for the season, to put Ben Radford out of business!" The smile had gone from Radford's face; his lips were tightly closed, his eyes cold and alert. "You lying about Ferguson because you think he's friendly with Mary?" he questioned quietly. Leviatt's right hand dropped swiftly to his holster. But Radford laughed harshly. "Quit it!" he said sharply.
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