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Updated: June 11, 2025
He was shrewd, that was all, but now she could read him; for he had spoken, for once, from his heart. The mail that night bore a sample of white quartz to a custom assayer in Vegas, but Virginia guarded her secret well.
Pecos Service, too, had its struggle against spite and incendiarism in the old days; but that is a story long past; and to-day, Pecos stands as an example of what good trail making will do to prevent fires. We walked across the almost flat table of Grass Mountain and looked down the east side into the Las Vegas Cañon.
But the pure, serene fire in those first water diamonds which graced the ring on Wiley's hand that dazzled Samuel J. Blount as it had dazzled the Widow and many a store-keeper in Vegas.
I've still a hankerin' fer sunshine an' red liquor. Besides, I 'ain't got nothin' ag'in' Las Vegas. If he's rustled over here at the head of a crowd to put us off I'd fight, jest as we'd all fight. But you see we figgered wrong. It's between you an' Las Vegas!... You oughter seen him throw thet hunter Dale out of Turner's." "Dale! Did he come?" queried Beasley.
They called him Las Las Vegas. I liked his looks." "Humph! You'll like him a heap when you know him. He's kept the ranch goin' for Miss Helen all along. But the deal's comin' to a head. Beasley's got thick with thet Riggs. You remember him?" "Yes." "Wal, he's been hangin' out at Pine all winter, watchin' for some chance to get at Miss Helen or Bo. Everybody's seen thet.
"Wal, reckon we'll all call you Las Vegas, anyway," continued the rancher. "Didn't you say my niece sent you to me for a job?" Whereupon Carmichael's easy manner vanished. "Now, boss, shore my memory's pore," he said. "I only says " "Don't tell me thet. My memory's not p-o-r-e," replied Al, mimicking the drawl. "What you said was thet my niece would speak a good word for you."
"We'll discuss that later," returned Wiley grimly, "but I'll tell you right now that there aren't men enough in Vegas to run me out of town not if you call in the whole town and the Janitors' Union so don't try to start anything rough. I'm a law-abiding citizen, and I know my rights, and I'm going to see this through."
"For one thing, I suppose you are trying to decide why you didn't sign your name over in Las Vegas." Sanderson grinned mildly, but did not answer. He felt more at ease now, and the little man's impertinences did not bother him so much as formerly. He looked up, however, startled, when Owen said slowly: "Do you want me to tell you why you didn't sign Will Bransford's name to the affidavit?"
The next moment the big black was pounding the roadway neck and neck with another, smaller horse upon which the half-breed swayed in the saddle with the ease and grace of the loose-rein rider born. It was broad daylight when the cowpuncher opened his eyes in an arroyo deep among the hills far, far from Las Vegas.
During the working season, April to November, my time was mostly spent with the round-up or on the trail, with occasional visits to our head office in Las Vegas, and also to Amarillo on business matters. I nearly always camped out on the prairie, of course cooked my own meals, was out in all kinds of weather sun, rain, heat and drought, blizzards and frightful lightning storms.
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