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The trouble started over a half- He looked dazed and sober, but he wild stallion. Kent Whitehead and was not injured. He told us he woke Larry Waite had caught it week up and found himself lying in the hay The horses and before. They brought it into the in Emery's stable. Lazy Y and tried to break it to saddle. two milk cows there had kept the It was the finest specimen of horse-place warm.
each other. Mal flesh I'd ever seen.
We looked at
out Kent, of course, never should have Vassar went over and yanked
One ridden the stallion into town. It's a Kent's gun and looked at it.
Mal told him miracle that he got there at all, but shot had been fired. Kent excels in horsemanship, which about the half-wild stallion is the offer.
coming only explanation we could in riderless. He told Kent that until we could get the sheriff a couple of Ten minutes after Kent landed at us boys would keep him covered. the Peacock Saloon it began to snow; Kent didn't object, but he looked real worried. The dazed expression was a regular humdinger, the first
Watching him, I blizzard of the season. Kent looked still in his eyes. out at it and knew we couldn't get back to the ranch this night, so he pro- ceeded to get drunk. He was well on the way when Larry arrived.
Larry came stamping in, shaking the snow from his sombrero, kicking it from his boots. He was mad, fight- inging mad. He saw, Kent at the bar and strode up and whirled him around, not ungently.
got the impression he was scared scared that in his drunken fury he had actually shot Larry, and didn't remember it.
So the boys went out and Mark Vine and I sat around and kept an eye on Kent. An hour passed, and then we heard the boys returning. They filed into the saloon, and two of them were carrying a body. It was "Larry, stiff "You got a nerve!" he raged. "You as a board, dead. got a nerve takin' my hoss out on a
The boys looked at Kent, and their
By Vic Yardman
night like this, an' him hardly broke looks. boded no good. But Kent got to saddle!"
hole?"
up and came and stared down at the "Where's the bullet hole?" Kent stared drunkenly and narrow-body.
The boys looked at each ed his eyes and spat. He was drunk, he said.
repeated: but not too drunk to comprehend.. other blankly, and Kent
"'S my hoss. 'S my hoss an' I gotta - "Well, if I shot him like, you Jiggers where's the bullet right to ride him anywhere I like. seem to think, Sho!"
over, but So they looked Larry Larry bared his teeth. Only the
the fact that Kent was drunk kept him they didn't find any bullet hole. They from hitting him. Instead he swore, found instead a long gash on
A side of his head. Kent looked at the turned on his heel and went out. minute later we heard a scream, a gash and said something to horse's scream. It was followed by Vassar. Mal and a couple. .of the muffled pound of hoofs. Then a boys went out, and when they came
back they seemed relieved. shout,
Kent Whitehead reeled away, from the bar. He. cursed. and. lurched across the floor, banged open door and went out. Almost at once there came the sound of a revolver shot.
Mal the
"There's blood marks on the rock near where we found the body," Mal the explains. "It looks like the stallion objected to being rode by Larry and Larry's head hit a tossed him off. rock and it knocked him unconscious. We looked at each other, then we The storm did the rest."
That settled it all right. We were rushed for the door. The snow was
Kent blinding. We couldn't see more than glad, because we liked Kent. two feet in the faint light from the sighed when he heard what Mal had saloon. There were a few horses at to say.
the hitching rack, standing with droop- ing.heads. There was no other sound
"The dumbhead," he said, half to
or movement, nothing but the howl himself. "I told him the hoss was minic. No one else could ride him. of wind and the hiss of snow.
We got, a rope and tied it to the Larry couldn't. But he was stubborn. veranda railing and went off up the Well, I reckon this proves ownership
We all right." street, holding on to one end.
direc- hunted for fifty feet in both tions, and didn't find a thing. We didn't dare let go the rope and hunt farther for fear of getting lost.
So we came back to the saloon and were just about to go inside when the half-wild stallion came trotting and nudged the other horses warmth, He was riderless. -
up
for
We immediately jumped to con- clusions. We remembered the words animal's Kent and Larry had, the scream, the revolver shot. But didn't dare go on a search. It would have meant death to get very far from the saloon.
"
,we
So we went inside and drank red eye and talked and speculated t!!! morning. It cleared about. af hour after sunrise: We got into our coats and were just about to set out whori the door opened and in walks Kent.
Nobody argued the point.
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