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"My, but I did have a time of it! I ain't much good at story-tellin' but I reckon I
told more stories this arternoon than I ever tole before in all my life. I told 'em
that they was two of you, an' that the biggest one hed red hair, an' the little one
was all pock-marked. Then they said you prob'ly wasn't the man at all, an' my!
how they did swear at them two tramps fer gettin' 'em way out here on a wild-
goose chase; but they're goin' to look fer you jes' the same in Olathe, only they
won't find you there," and she laughed, a bit nervously though.
It was dusk when Mr. Shorter returned from Holliday, but after he had heard his
wife's story he said that he'd drive "them two byes" all the way to Mexico, if there
wasn't any better plan.
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Dodson's far enough," Bridge assured him, and late that night the grateful
farmer set them down at their destination.
An hour later they were speeding south on the Missouri Pacific.
Bridge lay back, luxuriously, on the red plush of the smoker seat.
"Some class to us, eh, bo?" asked Billy.
Bridge stretched.
The tide-hounds race far up the shore--the hunt is on! The breakers roar! Her
spars are tipped with gold, and o'er her deck the spray is flung, The buoys that
frolic in the bay, they nod the way, they nod the way! The hunt is up! I am the
prey! The hunter's bow is strung!
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