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"I'm afraid you are mistaken." Her voice was stiff. "I don't know what you
mean, Mr. Brennan."
"He's trapped ... trapped, I say." Brennan did not sound too upset about it,
however and it was Brennan he had counted as a friend.
After Brennan was gone he lay perfectly still, waiting for her to go. And
when she went, he would get out of here. With luck, he could be twenty miles
away before daybreak ... perhaps thirty.
SuddenlyGinia got to her feet. She put her things in the basket and closed
it, then she opened a cabinet and took out a bottle. He knew the sound, all
right, but it startled him and he opened his eyes.
Her back was half toward him. She had a brandy glass, and she was pouring a
little from the bottle. He closed his eyes quickly as she turned around and
came toward him. "You'd better drink this," she said coolly. "You're going to
need it."
He opened his eyes. "I never saw the time when I needed a drink," he said,
"but I'll take it."
"You'd better,"Ginia said grimly. "They'll be coming any minute now."
" 'They'?"
Her face was expressionless. "Mr. Pollock, Mr. Brennan, Joshua all of them."
"Coming here? What for?"
"They had to make it official," she replied. And then she added,
"ReverendTattersall is coming, too."
"Reverend? In this town?"
"He's the pastor of our church. We have a church now."
He looked at her suspiciously. "How long have I been here?"
"About eight days ... almost nine. You'd be surprised how much has happened."
He was afraid to ask what had happened. Instead he said, "How'd we come out
in the fight?"
"We lost two men, and three wounded, besides you. Mr. Hamilton was killed,
and JimKarns he was one of the new ones.
"The Bellows gang ... they were hit pretty hard, everybody seems to think.
You killed LuteSemple , TandyHerren , and another man we found him on the
balcony and six others were killed, most of them when you emptied the saloon."
"You mean when they busted out of the door?"
"When you started shooting and drove them out." She smiled suddenly. "They're
all talking about how perfectly you had planned for them. There were four men
at the mine aside from Mr. Pollock, and when those men burst out of the door
they ran right into the open in front of their guns. Until then, it looked as
if we'd lost the fight."
"I didn't get Bellows?"
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"You wounded him. They had the trial the next day, and they tried him and
another man who would never tell us his name."
"What happened?"
"They were guilty, and they were hanged. Justice is very prompt here, Mr.
Fallon." And then she added slyly, "Wiley Pollock was the prosecuting
attorney."
They had acted promptly then. He lay quietly thinking about it, and then he
heard the boots on the steps. "Look" he sat up quickly, so quickly he felt a
dart of pain in his side "my horse is right down in the stable. Stall them ...
say anything ... let me get out of here. After all," he pleaded, "I never did
you any harm."
"I never let you," she said, "or you might have. After all, you did try to
seduce me."
"I what?"
"Didn't you try to win me over with flattering words? Didn't you tell me I
was too lovely for this sort of life?"
"Well, look ... I didn't mean to ..."
"And weren't we in a dark cellar under the hotel? How does that sound?"
Suddenly he was angry. "Look, I don't know what you're trying to do, but "
"Oh, shut up!" she said primly. "Here they are." John Brennan was in the
lead, and behind him wereBlane , Teel, Budge,Devol , Pollock, and a dozen
others, some of whom he did not know.
"That claim you sold me," Pollock said, grinning, "was no damned good."
"I'm sorry about that," Fallon said. "I can return the money."
"You don't have any money,"Ginia interrupted. "I used it."
"Youwhat ?"
"She gave it to me," Pollock said, "to develop the claim up on the mountain
... the claim you found when you had that brush with theUtes ."
"You talked when you were delirious,"Ginia said maliciously, "but the claim
sounded good. So I went to Mr. Pollock and suggested he go with Mr. Teel ...
he's a very good tracker, you know ... and backtrack you to where you found
the gold. It took them five days to find it, but they did." He lay perfectly
still, his eyes staring out of the window. It was night out there now, and if
he'd been left to himself he would be out there ... running.
So they had located the claimhe'd found, and she had returnedhis money to
Pollock to develop the claim.
"You took the money out of my pockets? That's stealing!"
"I doubt if anybody would know more about that than you, Mr. Fallon, but time
was passing and you were very ill ... and of course, every wife has a right "
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"Everywhat ?"
"Every wife. Of course, I am not your wife yet, but I told them all how you
proposed to me under the hotel that time, and the things you said to me, and
how we planned to be married, so Mr. Pollock and I drew up the papers for the
Red Horse Mining & Development Company."
"I threw in my claim," Pollock said cheerfully, "the one you sold me."
"And we contributed ours,"Ginia said, and the light in her eyes was no longer
quite so malicious, "and the money you got from Mr. Pollock. You are president
of the company, Mr. Pollock is vice president and superintendent of
development, and I'm the treasurer."
"And we had an election,"Blane interrupted, "and you were elected mayor. I
voted against you," he added.
"You're the only sane one in the crowd," Fallon said irritably. "This has
turned into a madhouse."
"And this,"Ginia said, indicating a man standing near her, "is the Reverend
Mr.Tattersall ."
The door opened just then and Joshua Teel's wife came in with a cake,
followed by Ruth Damon, in her prettiest dress.
"What's that for?" Fallon asked.
"That's the wedding cake, Mr. Fallon,"Ginia replied, "and Ruth is my
bridesmaid."
"This has gone far enough!" Fallon protested. "A joke is a joke. I never
proposed to you never!"
"Not in so many words,"Ginia agreed.
"How many do?" Mrs. Teel asked. "In so many words? Josh didn't."
"Neither did pa," Mrs.Blane said, "not in so many words."
The Reverend Mr.Tattersall came up beside the bed. He cleared his throat.
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