A Man Four-Square

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thickets were bursting into flower. Spanish bayonets studded the plains. Everywhere

d fantastic in the eerie gloom of the stagnant water. From this they emerged to a more wooded region and

a siesta during the heat of the day. Night brought with it a thunderstorm and they took refuge in a Mexican hut built of palisades and roofed with grass sod. A widow lived alone in the jacal, b

r cheeks. She was a comely young woman and he asked her gallantly in the bronco

time can do that. I mourn my husband. He was a drunken ne'er-do-well, but he was my m

n?" asked Bi

ago. Of

between them and their amazed hostess. At the first stream they stripped, bathed, washed their

t that headlong flight, but underneath t

e can heal me of that scare she threw into Bil

imself to pinole. "I'll bet I lost a

ing the long hours when they rode side by side he told his

Homer Webb is. His word

along," said Billie by

he stack up A 1 too?"

at matter. I've seen him fight like a pack of catamounts. Outside of that I've got a hunch that he's crooked as a dog's hind leg. Mebbe I'm wrong, I'm tellin' you how he strikes me. If I was Homer Web

rouble with the Sna

beef contracts. There's been some shootin' back an' forth an' there's liable to be a whole lot more. The Lazy S M-that's the Snaith-McRobert brand-claims the whole Pecos country by priority. The old man ain't recognizin' any

peaceably? They'll get together an'

en from Texas an' the Strip. Some of our boys ain't exactly gun-shy

ld man to punch cows. Whyfor should I take any chances with the Snait

Go-Get-'Em is a quiet little Sunday-go-to-meetin' kid. It was kinder by

deau place an' I trailed along. When you got yore pill in the laig you made me ride

t within three years more than a hundred lusty men were to fall in battle and from assassination. It would have amazed him to know that the bullet which laid low the renegade in Shoot-a-Buck Ca?on had set the spark to the evil pas