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So near had they been to fulfilment that it seemed that I must have been spared only for a harder fate, and the figure of Stacy Shunk peering at me through the top of his hat, uttering his ominous warning, rose before my startled eyes. I should have run, but my retreat was barred, the girl blocking the way over the shelving beach.
I don't want to die with this on my soul. His words ended in a gurgling moan. His face twitched and then relaxed. He was dead. His dying words had thrilled Kid Wolf with horror. Steve Stacy and Ed Mullhall on their way to murder Ma Thomas! Perhaps they were at the S Bar already! Perhaps their terrible work was done! The Kid went white. But he wasted no time in wringing his hands.
"I mean to act fair, and return your money." "Oh, I don't mean that, I don't want that! It was the other affair; you could not do anything so cruel." Margaret turned short round and faced the stout man, who was trembling, abjectly, from head to foot. "Mr. Stacy, I have kept silent fifteen years and rather over. If I have not spoken before, you may be certain I never shall.
Lige disappeared in the bushes, returning a few moments later, carrying a brace of some sort of animal by the hind legs. "What's that?" demanded Stacy Brown, his eyes growing large. "Jack-rabbits," answered the guide. "There are two of them. I shot them, and now we'll eat them. I was providing a supper for you when you heard those shots." The boys set up a cheer.
If he had, we might have openly declared the forgery, and if it was known that he or his friends had profited by it, even if we could not have proven his actual complicity, we could at least have made it too hot for him in California. But," said Stacy, looking intently at his friend, "do you know how the case stands now?"
"Fine young stock, hardy and true and quick," said the owner, rubbing his palms together. "We don't want any quick one. We've had some experience with the quick kind," declared Stacy Brown. "They were so quick I couldn't get out of the way of their heels. No, siree, no quick mules for mine." "I don't think you need worry much about these," smiled Tad. "How much do you ask for those fellows?"
It is in his hands yet. When I leave this seat, it will be my first business to make sure that she never gets the watch again." "But it is fourteen years time enough for anything to be outlawed." "I have asked about that. Crimes are not like debts they cannot be outlawed, Mr. Stacy." "And you could find it in your heart to hunt down an old sweetheart like that, providing all you say is true?
Perhaps his enthusiasm had bored this superior man of the world. Perhaps his confidences were in bad taste! With a new sense of his inexperience he turned sadly away. Van Loo took that opportunity to approach Stacy. "What's all this I hear of Barker being engaged to Miss Carter?" he said, with a faintly superior smile. "Is it really true?" "Yes. Why shouldn't it be?" returned Stacy bluntly.
"He was with you last night?" "No, not all the time. He went out with me, but I saw him only twice during the early part of my watch." Mr. Simms looked serious. "I hope nothing has happened to him. See here, Luke. They tell me Master Stacy has not been seen this morning. Know anything of it?" "Why, no. Are you sure? Have you looked in his tent?"
Under ordinary circumstances this would have been of little consequence, for he had already spent more than one night in the open air without discomfort; but his attendant had heard a distant muttering of thunder, and John Stacy was not the lad to encounter without murmuring a night of storm unsheltered.
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