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"I never did have no twins nowhere. Where'd you git 'em, Tom?" The freighter threw his leg across the seat. "Oh, they're yours all right, I reckon, Curly," said he. "Mother's dead. No relations. They come from Kansas, where all the twins comes from. I found 'em waitin' up there in Vegas, billed through to you. Both dead broke, both plumb happy, and airy one of 'em worth its weight in gold.
"Call him Tom? I should smile I will," she declared, in delight. "Hurry now what 'd " "It's shore powerful strange how he hates thet handle Las Vegas," went on Roy, imperturbably. "Roy, tell me what he did what TOM did or I'll scream," cried Bo. "Miss Helen, did you ever see the likes of thet girl?" asked Roy, appealing to Helen. "No, Roy, I never did," agreed Helen.
Sunrise found Las Vegas pacing to and fro the short length of the interior, and peering out through wide cracks between the boards. Then during the succeeding couple of hours he watched the occasional horseman and wagon and herder that passed on into the village. About the breakfast hour Las Vegas saddled his horse and rode back the way he had come the night before.
Skinny asked; "where's Mike?" "Everybody's got religion, I guess," Red yawned, "and gone to bed. What do you want with Sabota?" looking suspiciously at the Ramblin' Kid; "he's over at Vegas; won't be back till to-morrow or to-day it is now, I reckon evening sometime!" "Th' Ramblin' Kid and me have been out in the rain," Skinny said suggestively, "and thought we might take cold " "Nothing doing!"
At breakfast the next morning she asked him what he had discovered at Las Vegas. He looked straight at her. "There is no record of your birth," he said. She paled. "Then Dale has grounds for his suspicion," she said in a weak voice. "Because your birth was not recorded is no sign you are not a Bransford," he said.
Shaw's strenuous itinerary included meetings at Battle Mountain, Winnemucca, Lovelocks, Reno, Washoe, Carson City, Virginia City, Tonopah, Goldfield, Las Vegas and Caliente. She made many hundreds of votes for the amendment.
"But Wiley," reasoned the Colonel, "you've got great interests at stake and your father will help you, I'm sure." "No, he won't," declared Wiley. "There isn't anybody that can help me, because Blount is in control of the courts. And I might as well add that I was run out of Vegas by a Committee appointed for the purpose."
The trail lay some distance south of Leavenworth. It ran westward, dipping slightly to the south until the Arkansas River was reached; then, following the course of this stream to Bent's Fort, it crossed the river and turned sharply to the south. It went through Raton Pass, and below Las Vegas it turned west to Santa Fe.
The dining-room was light and pleasant, and the meal, fragrant and steaming, was ready for him. But the women had disappeared. Beasley seated himself spread out his big hands on the table. Then a slight rustle a clink of spur startled him. He twisted his head. "Howdy, Beasley!" said Las Vegas, who had appeared as if by magic.
I might tell you how I'm lost once, freightin' from Vegas into the Panhandle, an' am two days without water blazin' Jooly days so hot you couldn't touch tire, chain, or bolt-head without fryin' your fingers. An' how at the close of the second day when I hauls in at Cabra Springs, I lays down by that cold an' blessed fountain an' drinks till I aches.
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