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St unwholesomelySt empty f fnobodY nty t1 - _ who had seen seenfJ no nobody atthat that thatth noould ould tpthatere tpthatereno , seenA fJ th ere re could look at that thatthou thatl thatluiout : ' 3S was thwas waswathou \ -thou thou wathou wathoulrregf , - s , lrregf lrregfarsomething Irregular uiout ! . knowing 1.nowIng 1nowIng arsomething arsomethingo , o something that thatg thatgs ' ' . ? , ( . then , " the shcruT sherill sheriff saidfreight said ; &t t & freight freight nnd and drag ittour itdeeP it ' tour tourgoing Five minutesI minutesis minutes mmutes is ; deeP I Pdonlt o don't dont going ' want you in thisc thisif this tins c , chuckled in hl his his-shortJbltchedhisbeUup his shortJbltchedhisbeUup - hort short ! 1 1itcbed if ; itcbed ! Cbed his belt up Slow Slow- Slowauteced Sow.tiered Sowtiered . - loped past the deputIes deputies"teach deputiesteach . , auteced 11rJ ! " It each of them WI with th thIt an anoJent antolcit an'dot andot he heget he&cn hecn ' amusement as tolcit oJent shouldered out out , , alcll az a , get & en be he lcll z that filled the tholef ' \ whole thole hole f the door doorg ' Ibidoo1'iring Ibidoo1iring g , the 94 men madealng madealong made , r along alng ; the main mam street ofaround of around the corner tois to totf tf LS is the ( be dust ust of Inspiration Inspirationjd Inspirationact Inspirationrid under their tiresr tires rid act from they had put behindiroleice behind behmd behindo'eace fii'Liat fiiLiat that ' = ; r ; o'eace oeace 'ellce ellce ' that was not avoId avoid- avoiddelayed avoid-riicly avoid riicly - . iroleice trJr delayedtt delayed they reached the theiJa5 thelsas thealias tt e < time tune lsas iJa5 already late afternoon afternoon.ilallTuscaroras afternoonilallTuscaroras , . : taU tall Tuscaroras were sendvague send- send sendvague - ' guecflngers fingers ofr ofrraga of shadow shadowlayout ? raga vague tlayout layout of the 94 , . while v.hIle vhIle the . , nihonzon IDhorIzon enboriaon was still stlll bright- bright bright111 brightiithesun bright-gn bright gn - iithesun m 111 Ihe the sun MarIan Ma nan did not notwt no td , wt to meet them Hunting Huntingtorse HuntingHorse Huntingsparse torse Horse Dunn presently sightsitting sightntting sight- sight sighttitling - titling sitting ntting on the fence of a ar as$7 aiC corral hidden from the thetithe thelij r : . s$7 s7 ' $ ? 11 tithe the llie barns He walked out outIhe outthe outj Ihe the [ he fence beside her , and andfeeler 1 Viheeler Rbeeler , tired of people peopleWn peoplekm people4UB Wn km . , went to his lus room , and andI1m5 andrazors andiruors I1m5 razors outHorse outHorse out out'Horse 'Horse Horse ' presently came 1001r look- look 1001- 1001 lookhim . - . r y : ! him . . The old cow boss bossth bossih th b slowly , and closed the'er the thefta 'er er ' him He sat down on oniol onid tel iol ( ! : the bunk with the move move- moved move-id move id - . d i a . man a hundred years yearswhe yearsd whe he covered his lus face wIth withtnow withA withAiboff iboff mow tnow fthat ohat shat ? she said to me me"aM meaM ? " ded dad . . ZN to ! 9 . " ZNtout eloul dout : tout to where she's shes ' sIttmg sitting sittingccnaL sittingIrerraL maL ccnaL I just lust wanted to tell telliXul tell1st telltail iXul 1st Rufe Rule Deane throwmg throwing throwingadeputy throwingadeputy :3 3 : adeputy deputy badge , and the way waymed waytired wayared med tired the street . . I thought thoughtfished thoughtd ; d fished she ( bed d seen it all she'd shed she'dr.at she'dibt she'diht shediht ' r.at rat ibt . v.e ve ae . e re up against So 1 I Idthere Id IlIere dthere : ! there and said , &Manan- &Manan Manan 'Marian- 'Marian Marian &MananlIS 'MarianOsalllsaid 'Marian Marian 'Marian'mall ' & - 'mall mall ' lIS Osalllsaid all I said She never even evenII evenitire evenill II itire ' ire rI'e rIe And pretty soon sheiGlHe shecare she Tcure iGlHe ? care making makU1g this countryBilly country countryi countryM . i M * " aly B Billy Iy Wheeler felt a de dei1 deIyior deifSy i\1 i 1 Iyior \ tor for this old man and.thls andthls andthis andthisLas and . ? this'iKs thisiKs Las ! Lasable ! ' i " able to see what Horse Horseaid Horse'stid Horsestid ' tJd aid : not that the girl wasdependent wasdependent was wasdependent dependent upon this old oldi.o oldA 1.0 10 i.o io " . . ) looked like hke her fa father fatherorient lher , 2t ; esdent ent upon him hun hum in morelit more morea ' lit -a a - the she was aware . AndIedeeply Andmdeeply And Iedeeply mdeeply ! : ' deeply hurt , at a loss , becould becould be- be becould - : could not understand understandr dtr understanddtr r dtred ttdnot ednot ed ttd : ! not see much chanceCUl chanceprl chance chancePri Pri CUl prl would learn to undert underr underer under- under - er t r Horse Dunn or the dry drymen dryeenwhom iEen eenwhom men whom he faced Horsenirhatthe Horse Horseriat hadta nirhatthe " .Jtbat Jtbat . riat the dry country had hadand hadand and there was no longer i 11 ! & iathe longeriathe longeri the old ' man's mans life lIe ! ex exw ii exii iirow cow row kingdom he had hadId hadand hady Id and tried to build , tor for hernOlte hernoise her "Mise Mise " nOlte noise was heard and Old OldLe Le tt came in andU glOOmIly and andcoiled U 11 coiled dog WhIP on the themtactually 1Itactually mtactually ! I actually hit a dog wIth withstor .tor tor wIth.tor . he'But tat withtat over nine days , " he . 'But But ' t I 1 swear I come c'fse cfse close cffiises } ' ) foolte foolL one c'fseone closeonetosnght onetosnght ae tonight tOlUght . . That old fool1o fool te L 10 1o i > " , cussed- cussed cussed'ahere cussed - " cussedDunn 'aherellong ' Sunn Dunn llong interrupted , "you you " B , . 'ahere ahere n bere ere long , , but you've youve ' you've1'4 youve14 you'vet.d you'veback t.d td . ' back trailed , and pro prower prorlOvee rlOvee wer this place with those . dSOUnds thosedSOUnds ds Now tell me one onetri0 tri0 blow IOu oneIOu ? see any show ot of find dydLonMagoon Im okdied kllIed Lon Magoon ? " " Coffee Cottee dropped . into 1 nrr'jt -rr'jt rr'jt rrjt - ' ' iinu a u aConsidered n considered uconsidered Considered for several several'its severalcuts ' 'its its cuts its . . ' No , " he said at Dunn Uen demanded demandedy demandedI7 7 y , ' , some " "e e " Place , may mayLoa mayLon Lon L00 Ihe Magoon . , for all Ik I Iture he heh e ture Sure ' k . h . ' , wasn't wasnt killed atin at atin in his life old Horse HorseCropped Horsedropped dropped " . . .Look Look "Look here ' t witht t I l 60 go to foolIng11th tooling foolIng with \11th 11th withalways \ always I'mt knO\1 knO 1 knox \ , what I'm Im I'msaddlis'tune ' ' t . This tune I know " laddIe- laddIe saddlis'tune saddlistune - " ' 1question 1t0estion laddIe1question it Was Magoon's Magoons ' .edsay edsay 1 . ! ay ayit In dlIIerentIn it it it Was " a dlIIerent different differentf1rse Horse f1rse tt 5ttt 5t stared staredat 3red 3redat at Coffee , 'the the 'theed ' rlile rlilea ed edn n a httIe little , and andsat sat satt sattou bunk . nj ' . $ t ll llnj tou toubunk e hee Coffee 'Coffee , " he heele so dead ele elee sure , in ei0ll'n ei0lln US ' What you know knows ' " imeted meted ted his i "Ited "I I " " deep set eyes "Iydre Iydre e tooted tooteda ooted ooteda 10 killed killeda a good dog , bt btkilled Iohel Iohele help e a mule . , gettIng gettIngII II ( fP P You WIth thIS case f spot casespot or that appret r ror In appreIn to be appre t , bilk 8 nutting getting a little tIred tiredteI aU teI teIthe ? elg the questIons questionsq /q q / qtypO typO typOlned ( r.ked rked . h bh . o1l1 b baflled lned aflled ' & ' What's Whats ' ' the orone forone "I'm Im " ' ' tired of being lied iced to , for tone t ( or or"Who's one thing thmg . " "Who's Whos " ' lied to you ? " "More More " than one , right here on this place thisplace tthin Dunn , ' there's theres ' t too 00 many manyh thin things manythings manygs gs not open to the eye around ! h here aroundhere ere to suit meS mel " I ' & Coffee , " said Horse Dunn with wIth- wIthout without without - helldo out belligerence , "what what " In fn inall all hell do you mean by that ? " "I'll Ill " ' ' just give you one sample " Old Man Codec CoIIee Coffee picked up his dog | Iwhip whip dogwhip from the floor and sorted out its outits coils cOlIs with bony old fingers fin gers "Th Th "There's Theres fingers"There's fingersTheres fin"Th " re 'b b 'bgers ' seen been a horse In this case that that's thats casethat's casethats casethat ' s been known as the kIller's kIllers ' killer'shorse killershorse horse , because beemse : : he left his tra trail at Short atShort Crick Crlch , mixed up in the sign signof signof signof oldRock of the killing kIllmg You know I tookold took old Rock and we trailed trlIled : that horse . ; then.Now thenNow though it com come to nothing , then then : . Now herethis , smce since we we've weve ' ve been back here thIS afternoon , ' I've Ive ' seen a funny thing funnything Rock's Rocks ' been working worhmg around aroundthe aroundthe aroundthe the horse corrals , by himself ; : try try- - ing trying to work out a trail Dog voices voicesis voicesis is peculIar-they peculIar they peculiar - they call different traIls traIlsin trailsin trailsin in different diITerent ways And as soon as asI asI asI I heard Rock's Rocks ' voice , I knew he was wascrymg wascrying wascrying crymg crying the tra trail of o1 the killer horse " They stared at nt him in sIlence sIlenceThen silenceThen silenceThen Then Horse Dunn said , "You're Youre "You.re You.re " . ' ' tell- tell tell"I - . tellC C 4 , . .41 41 . _ s m mI mS m4 I \4 4 \ S \ . .N N { 4 4nJ nJ nJJ nJJ nJRr - J J Rr Rrar ar ar"I "I I " Swear Swcar I Never Heard Hcard the theBeat theBeat theBeat Beat . , " ing mg me that the killer's killers ' horse has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been here in 1D this la ) } out-rIght out rIght out - - right herewlthm herewithin here herewithin -wlthm wlthm -within within - within the past few days7 days ? " " ' & Within WIthm the past 24 hours , " CoITee Coffee CoITeesaid Coffeesaid Cofleesaid CofleesaidHorse said saidHorse Horse Dunn made a gesture of ofimpatIence ofImpatience ofimpatience impatIence , almost of disgust . . . "I I "Isear "Iswear "Iswear Iswear " s\\ear s ear swear \ \ I 1 never heard the beat , " he hesaId hesaid hesaid saId "You You " set out to give me a asample asample asample sample of how you've youve ' been done donewrong donewrong donewrong wrong by , around here And what whatdoes whatdoes whatdoes does it come to to9 ? " You read names namesdates , dates and places into mto the howl of a ahound ahound ahound hound , and you figure out that rIght rIghthere righthere righthere here among us he's hes ' come on a trail trailtha trailthat trailthat tha that t he completely lost when he had hadthe hadthe hadthe the straight run of 1t it . . " CHAPTER VIIIThe VIII VIIIThe The mountains mountams were throwmgtheIr throwingtheir throwing throwmg 1their theIr early lucid twilight across the therange therange therange range of the 94 by the time the cow cowboys cowboys cowboys boys cleared their supper plates platesThey platesThey platesThey They had eaten in silence But Butsomehow Butsomehow Butsomehow somehow m in the interval mterval since smce the theconference theconference theconference conference in m Billy Bully Wheeler's Wheelers ' room roomeverybody , everybody there had learned that a aquarrel aquarrel aquarrel quarrel seemed about to smoke up upbetween upbetween upbetween between Old Man Coffee and Horse HorseDunn HorseDunn HorseDunn Dunn So now they still loafed m in inthe inthe : the mess shack , and nobody spoke spokeof spokeof ! of seven up They rolled CIgarettes CIgarettesI CIgarettesand cigarettesand cigarettesand I and lighted pipes , and a couple of oflamps oflamps oflamps lamps were lit ht , throwing tall . , huge hugeshadows hugeshadows [ ! shadows of the men on the walls wallsbehind wallsbehind ! behInd They all knew that the 94 94was 94was 94was was up against agamst a thrash out , with with- within within . - in 1 itself tself tselfHorse Horse itselfHorse Dunn broke the silence fm- fm fmpa im impatiently - pa patiently hently & ' There sure ought to beenough beenough be | enough scrapping scrappmg on this range rangewithout rangewithout rangewithout without hunting up trouble among amongourselves amongourselves amongourselves ourselves In ordinary ordmary times this thiswhole thiswhole thisiwhole whole killing klllmg case wouldn't wouldnt ' amount amountto amountto ' to begin begm with " to a tinker's tinkers damn " ManCoITee ManCoffee Man ManCoffee "I'm Im " ' ' ' not so sure , said stud Old Coffee CoITee ' & What kind of a case have they theygot theygot theygot7 ' & can't cant can'teven can'teven can'teven canteven ' got ? " " Horse demanded . . They even find their everlasting everlastmg stiff stIffl 1 ! " , ' They're Theyre ' pretty liable hlble : to find it it"Old itOld , " thought ' & When Wheat Whenthey Wheatthey Whenthey Old Man Coffee they find fmd it , , it'll itll ' be about all they theyneed theyneed theyneed- theyneed theyneedIf it's its ' , like hke you chum claim chumthey claimthey claimthey need . - . If Magoon they can show motive-you motive you motive - you said saidopenly saidopenly saidopenly openly that you'd youd you.d ' . kill Magoon if it you youc'lught youcaught youc-iught youc iught c'lught clught caught ' - hfm him on 94 range . They'vegot They've Theyve They'vegot They'vegot Theyvegot ' by your own state statement statement statement got opportunIty-by opportunIty by opportunity - riding ridmg alone on Red RedSleep RedSleep RedSleep ment you were Sleep Ridge thatday that -day day - < iay day , and the Red RedSleep RedSleep RedSleep striking distance of ofShort ofShort ofShort Sleep is within Short Crick They can prove you youhid youhid youhid hid the dead man's mans ' saddle-which saddle which saddlewhichthey saddle - - which whichthey can stretch to make look like aconcealment aconcealment a concealment they of the - crunc crime And j jL L all allthis allthis ii iithis this says nothing nothmg about the killing klllmg of ofCayuse ofCayuse ofCayuse " . Cayuse Cayetano "What's Whats " ' known about the klllIng killing klllIngof killingof killingof of CayuseU Cayuse Cayuse9 ? " " i i"How "How How " do I know ? We're Were ' so popu pope popelar popular 1 1lar lar around here we can't cant ' even go golook golook golook look over Ace Springs without get gettmg getting ' officers of with tmg into mto a scrap scrnp 'the the ' the peace-same peace same peace - - same as lIS Billy got into intoat intoat Intoat at Short Crick Crlck . . " Dunn slumped down in hischair his chair chairand chairand chairand and v . went tent ent to growling Into his war- war . - lIke war.like warlike beard . "I I " don't dont ' believe you youknow know any more about It than therest the therest therest rest of us do . " "I'll Ill " ' ' put itstronger It stronger than that Maybc- Maybc Maybe- Maybe MaybcOld MaybeOld thatMaybe thatMaybc - - " Old Man Coffee CoITea made madeeach madeeach madeeach each d"someone d"someonc heard"someone word separately he heard- heard hear a r d- d d - "someone someone "someonc someonc " In this room knows a awhole awhole whole lot more than I knowl know ! " Horse Dunn sat perfectly still , ex- ex except except ex except - - cept for his eyes . , his head |