You don't have to be
so particular there, 'cause likely all they'll do when they run onto
you will be to take a shot at you, an' beat it. We've got to lay low
in the bad lands about a week or so, an' after that folks will have
somethin' else on their mind an' we can slip acrost to the N. P."
"See here, Tex, this thing has gone far enough." There was a note of
determination in Endicott's voice as he continued: "I cannot permit you
to further jeopardize yourself on my account. You have already
neglected your business, incurred no end of hard work, and risked life,
limb, and freedom to get me out of a scrape. I fully appreciate that I
am already under heavier obligation to you than I can ever repay. But
from here on, I am going it alone. Just indicate the general direction
of the N. P. and I will find it. I know that you and Bat will see that
Miss Marcum reaches the railway in safety, and----"
"Hold on, Win! That oration of yourn ain't got us no hell of a ways,
an' already it's wandered about four school-sections off the trail. In
the first place, it's me an' not you that does the permittin' for this
outfit. I've undertook to get you acrost to the N. P. I never started
anythin' yet that I ain't finished. Take this bottle of _hooch_
here--I've started her, an' I'll finish her.
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