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put me through," Dixon insisted desperately.
"You want to get me out of the way, so you'll have a clear track with
Phyl. Think I don't _sabe_ your game?"

The angry color sucked into Keller's face beneath the tan. He avoided
looking at Phyllis. "We'll not discuss that, seh. But I can say that
kind of talk won't help buy you anything."

The girl looked at Dixon in silent contempt. She was very angry, so that
for the moment her embarrassment was swamped. But she did not choose to
dignify his spleen by replying to it.

There was no iron in Dixon's make-up. When he saw that this attack had
reacted against him, he tried whining.

"Honest, you're wrong about this calf, Mr. Keller. I don't say, mind
you, it ain't a rustled calf. It may be; but I don't know it if it is.
Maybe the rustlers were scared off just before I happened on it."

"We'll see how a jury looks at that. You're going to get the chance to
tell that story to one, I expect," Larrabie remarked dryly.

"Pass it up this time, and I'll get out of the country," the youth
promised.

"Take care! Whatever you say will be used against you."

"Suppose I did rustle one of Buck Weaver's calves--mind, I don't say I
did--but say I did? Didn't he bust my father up in business? Ain't he
aiming to do the same by your folks, Phyl?" He was almost ready to cry.

The girl turned her head aside, and spoke in a low voice to Keller. She
was greatly angered and disgusted at Tom; but she had been his friend,
and on this occasion there had been some justification for him in the
wrong the cattleman had done his family.

"Do you have to report him and have him prosecuted?"

"I'm paid to stop the rustling that has been going on," answered Keller,
in the same undertone.

"He won't do it again. He has had his scare. It will last him a
lifetime." Even while she promised it for him, it was not without
contempt for the poor-spirited craven who could be so easily driven from
his evil ways. If a man must do wrong, let it be boldly--as Buck Weaver

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