The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-06-20
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at deadlock until one or the other is
smashed. You've got to talk to that
grill"
what makes you think can do any
thing with her, Lee?"
Lee Bishop CROPPED for some way to
express thing that he sensed, but
could not prove. "She follows you
with her eyes," he said at last. what
ever you do, If you aren't looking, she
follows you with her eyes,"
"Horsefearhers said Kentucky.
Maybe; but you got to do what I
say anyway" said Bishop stubbornly.
"What chance we got here, the way
things stand now? You got to talk to
that grill"
"You think" said Kentucky. there's
anything about the COW situation l can
tell her that she don't known"
you got to get her to pull out of
here until this thing is over. You got
to get her out of here and leave this
thing to her old man to work out in
his own way"
II see a swell chance to get popu-
lar, with that" said Kentucky. "Ex-
cuse me, ma'am, kindly ma'am, would
you just as leave get the HI out of
the state?'
You'll talk to herr"
"No," said Kentucky. "Do you think
I'm d-n fool?"
YES" said Bishop.
Kentucky fingered at the corrals,
however, after Lee Bishop had ridden
off to have a look at the condition of
Waterman road; and presently, as he
had more than half expected, Jean
Ragland came out.
Il want to ask you about a couple
of things" she said.
II was kind of looking for you to-"
he admitted
Jean Ragland said, "You have the
thing I gave you?"
He regarded her gravely. "That bull
let?" He told her what he had done
with it. II don't know that it did any
good to get hold of it, though"
She stared at him moment. ''Do
you think-do you think" She
stopped.
Il don't know for sure" he said:
"but I'll gamble you that the sheriff
has the other bullet"
The back of her gloved fingers went
to her mouth, but her face was calm,
and she was not afraid to meet his
eyes. what other bullet?"
Its possible I'm wrong. But 1 tell
you for what it's worth; I'll bet my
last cent that that bullet has a twin;
and that the sheriff has it,"
But what makes you think there
were two?"
'Well-he was cussing because the
bullet had got away from him; and he
said that taking it wouldn't help any.
body, because even if they needed it
they had the-and there he stopped.
So asked him if he meant they had
another slug. 1t kind of made him
mad, and we had little dispute. But
finally he said that they had taken a
cast of the bullet. Now, / took that
last to be lie."
jeans face was troubled. "Whyw
she asked sharply.
"The sheriff offered me a job" he
said. He told her about what Hopper
had wanted him to do concerning the
Bar Hook man who had not been where
he had said he was when Mason died.
ut doesn't amount to anything" she
said. 'It was just rider here-that
quarter-blood Indian, Joe St Marie.
I'm certain he-doesn't know anything
about it."
Kentucky Jones now knew st. Marie
as one Of the two cowboys who had
come in during the night, a blunt-faced.
competent rider.
''St. Marie is the best bronc rider
we've ever had here" Jean said. "But
he isn't always dependable. If he
wasn't working where he was sent the
day Mason died, that isn't the first time
he's gold-bricked his job"
You don't think his perjury means
anything then?"
that's all silliness!"
II thought it sounded thar way. OF
course told Hopper 1 wouldn't touch
his proposition with the end of my
rope"
She said peculiarly, "Yet, after you
talked to the sheriff, you went to my
father and got this job
Absolutely not! 1 had this job be-
fore talked to Hopper"
"Then why" she asked him bluntly,
did you want this job?"
He considered. Maybe" he said at
last, ut was partly because it looked
to me as If you needed some help In
something you were trying to do"
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