Sudden, peering through the grimy panes of the saloon window, watched Roden ride past, evidently making for the western exit of the town. “Looks like he’s changed his mind ‘bout leavin’ us after all. Anyways, time spent watching him won’t ever be wasted.” Devou...
His own explanation was that he had been absent on business connected with his office, and he treated any suggestion that he had been kidnapped by El Diablo with a tolerant smile, an attitude which aroused Pete’s personal wrath. “What’s the grand idea?” he enquired. “Here’s me workin’...
Naturally generous by nature, the attitude her rescuer had adopted distressed and saddened her. Coming from the East, she could not comprehend the stark animosity which could keep two families at war for years. And rude, primitive as he seemed, there was much that was like...
This last had an arresting appearance. Between thirty-five and forty years of age, of slight build, he had one remarkable feature —a skin, which even the fierce sun of the South-west could not colour; his clean-shaven face was white, the unhealthy, sickly white of something grown in darkness, and...
Lying on his back, his hands tied, he was unable to find out the extent of the injury. In the semi-darkness he could see that he was inside a kind of inverted funnel and knew it for an Indian tepee. Outside, the weird wail of a woman rose above the barking of dogs and guttural voices ...
He entered without knocking, and the occupant took his hand away from a gun-butt only when he recognised the visitor. He was a middle-aged man, of medium build, with a thin, sour face and restless eyes. He wore two guns, the holsters tied down. A bottle and two glasses before him. “We...
Lesurge, from entirely different motives, was also worried. Everything else was going well. Stark’s influence in Deadwood was growing, and he had the man in his pocket. Hickok, whom he feared, was disposed of, and his slayer—having been acquitted by a miners’ court—had left the district, to pay t...
The unexpected discovery of his identity was a crushing blow for it meant short shrift at the hands of his enemies, and the probable loss of all his friends. More than one county was offering a big reward for the capture of Sudden the outlaw, and once it became known that he was taken, there was ...
So far as the ranch was concerned, work went on as usual, and she realised with some bitterness that the absence of the master was making no difference. Severn seemed to get on well with the men. Passing the foreman’s hut, she saw the door was open, and the curiosity of he...
For a few days, however, he deemed it wise to stay in his shack, nursing his hurts and what—to those who came to see him—he described as grievances. “The game ain’t finished yet,” he told them darkly. “I’m goin’ to make some o’ the smarties in thisyer burg look an’ feel middlin’ sick....