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