He seems a little off his head." "Reckon he is. Somebody is, that's sure. You claim Buck Duane, th...
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until suddenly he espied Miss Longstreth. Then his face changed, and he removed his sombrero. Duane...
halted. "Who goes there?" came the sharp call out of the gloom. Duane pulled his horse. The gloom ...
courtyard, and he saw Snecker go straight for Longstreth's house. Duane was not to be turned back ...
hope, even gladness, and a fugitive mounting assurance of victory. Twice Duane endeavored to speak...
same as it had been; but the inner life had tremendously changed. He could never become a happy man...
men would be afraid to trail you. An' you could go right in to Huntsville, where you'd be some popu...
grass, for there was none. Presently he heard the horse tramping along, and then he ran. The mud wa...
and known, and as he felt with them he seemed to see that as their lives were bad, sooner or later ...
He held them close, trying to convey what he felt--that he would protect her. She leaned against hi...
territory. Twice he came to a wide bottom-land green with willow and cottonwood and thick as chapar...
"'Jennie,' he said, 'my wife said Duane came here to see you. I believe she's lyin'. I think she's ...
As he pulled in his heaving mount and leaped off, a couple of ranchers came out of the place, and o...
the cry of a woman in pain. Duane stepped into the open door, inside the room. Kate Bland lay half...
side he concluded was east and meant that dawn was near. Satisfying himself on this score, he desce...