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Chapter 5 AN INCIPIENT LOVE AFFAIR

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s and did other useful tasks. She was wearing a pink dress with the neck cut low, and look

nd sixty dollars a month if he went to work for the Lazy L. And perhaps he might be given the Ajos camp, with its comfortable ad

made h

ild rovers, pay

to you my s

xperience, no

the ruin o

elps at the end of each line, like a coyote

" she said decidedly. "C

lamely, and tried another, a plaintive

ilk neckerchief, and Johnson cursed his want of foresight in not purchasing some finery. T

red, depositing them carefully on a chair. Local ordinances do not p

well heeled?

att, "but I don'

k a gun," Lafe went on pleasantly. "Yo

ke them. They

st the sights off'n it, or take th

to pack a gun," Steve said. He adde

retty tol'able

like sleep. After a tentative puff or two on a cigarette, and some coughing, he got it out. Did Lafe know that Grace Hawes-Johnson silenced him curtly, and they lay dow

fore?" Grace cried. "Lafe Joh

s. He don't mean no harm, Miss Grace. He's just naturally playful.

How often has he had the habit? How m

many. I don't r

wives and fam'lie

to regret his interference. "Not a great many fam'li

e round here again. Married? Huh, you can't go to fool me! You quit try

Grace," Jim said, seizing his hat.

ay nothing of t

n the wicker rocking-chair. Lafe was momentarily cast down. A conference had reveale

e been asking Steve about shooting, and he done promis

ing," said Johnson

how to keep other men scared. I used to tell my sister back in Abilene-she ain't like m

e to be a gunfighte

" Miss Hawes clasped her

ghter always gives the other feller an even break.

you," Moffatt

the next man, he's liable to be awful nervy. Take a bronc buster, now. He knows he can clean a horse, and he ain't sca

don't know what y

-to Mr. Moffatt here, say-'Let's go into that back room with jus

ss Hawes asked

er now what a gunman-what Mr. M

was what Moffatt h

s? What if I said, 'Let's put two guns on a table, draw off to opposite sides of t

he alarm clock on the flimsy, draped mantel-shelf ti

ee you down at the Fashion,

oming,

ecko

on," sai

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Contents

Chapter 1 LAFE JOHNSON ARRIVES AT THE LAZY L RANCH Chapter 2 CERTAIN COMPLICATIONS RESULT Chapter 3 CONCERNING A BABY'S WAIL Chapter 4 OUT OF A JOB Chapter 5 AN INCIPIENT LOVE AFFAIR Chapter 6 DISCOMFITURE OF A GUNFIGHTER Chapter 7 JOHNSON IS ELECTED SHERIFF OF BADGER Chapter 8 A FEUD AND WHAT CAME OF IT Chapter 9 AN INQUEST AND A SURPRISE Chapter 10 A JOURNEY TO SATAN'S KINGDOM Chapter 11 A WAITRESS TO THE RESCUE
Chapter 12 THE SHERIFF SETTLES A CONJUGAL DISPUTE
Chapter 13 AND HETTY COMES TO BADGER TO LIVE
Chapter 14 THE SHERIFF ENSNARED
Chapter 15 HOW HE WON A WIFE
Chapter 16 THE GUNFIGHTER RETURNS AND DELAYS WEDDING
Chapter 17 JOHNSON MEETS A FRIEND OF HETTY'S
Chapter 18 A SACRIFICE AND ITS PUNISHMENT
Chapter 19 BUFFALO JIM GIVES WISE COUNSEL
Chapter 20 THE SHERIFF PURGES TOWN OF BADGER
Chapter 21 A FIGHT IN THE DARK
Chapter 22 CAPTURE OF MOFFATT, THE GUNMAN
Chapter 23 THE WEDDING
Chapter 24 THE BRIDE IS LOST
Chapter 25 JOHNSON BECOMES BOSS OF THE ANVIL
Chapter 26 ENTERS TROUBLE
Chapter 27 A CLEVER WOMAN AND A MISUNDERSTANDING
Chapter 28 RECONCILIATION-MRS. VINING EXPERIENCES A CHANGE OF HEART
Chapter 29 LAFE HELPS A DESERTER
Chapter 30 AND DISCOVERS HETTY'S BROTHER
Chapter 31 GREAT EXPECTATIONS IN JOHNSON FAMILY
Chapter 32 BIRTH OF LAFE JOHNSON, JR.
Chapter 33 JOHNSON ONCE MORE IN ROLE OF SHERIFF
Chapter 34 HE ARRESTS A SUSPECT
Chapter 35 THE DEATH DICE
Chapter 36 RESPONSIBILITY SITS HEAVILY ON LAFE
Chapter 37 BUT THE BOSS AGAIN PROVES HIS METTLE
Chapter 38 HOW A MOFFATT HENCHMAN WAS OUSTED
Chapter 39 NEWS FROM BUFFALO JIM
Chapter 40 HE ARRIVES TO VISIT THE JOHNSONS
Chapter 41 A NIGHT RIDE AND DEATH OF BUFFALO JIM
Chapter 42 MIDDLE LIFE
Chapter 43 MOFFATT ONCE MORE
Chapter 44 THE DUEL IN THE MALPAIS
Chapter 45 THE END
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