Название: The Rider of Golden Bar
Автор: William Patterson White
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Книги для детей: прочее
isbn: 9788027220441
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William Patterson White
The Rider of Golden Bar
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2044-1
Table of Contents
Chapter Three. What Sally Jane Thought
Chapter Five. Jack Murray Objects
Chapter Nine. The District Attorney
Chapter Thirteen. Open and Shut
Chapter Fourteen. When Thieves Fall Out
Chapter Fifteen. The Best-Laid Plans
Chapter Sixteen. Obscuring the Issue
Chapter Seventeen. What Hazel Thought
Chapter Eighteen. The Bare-Headed Man
Chapter Nineteen. The Persistent Suitor
Chapter Twenty-One. The District Attorney's Nightmare
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Gunfighters
Chapter Twenty-Four. Contrarieties
Chapter Twenty-Five. Jonesy's Ultimatum
Chapter Twenty-Six. The Fool-Killer
Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Long Day Closes
Chapter One.
Billy Wingo
"But why don't you do something, Bill?" demanded Sam Prescott's pretty daughter.
Bill Wingo looked at Miss Prescott in injured astonishment. "Do something?" he repeated. "What do you want me to do?"
"I don't want you to do anything," she denied with unnecessary emphasis. "Haven't you any ambition?"
"Plenty."
"Then use it, for Heaven's sake!"
"I do. Don't I ask you to marry me every time I get a chance?"
"That's not using your ambition. That's playing the fool."
"Nice opinion of yourself you've got," he grinned.
"Never mind. You make me tired, Bill. Here you've got a little claim and a little bunch of cows—the makings of a ranch if you'd only work. But instead of working like a man you loaf like a—like a——"
"Like a loafer," he prompted.
"Exactly. You'd rather hunt and fish and ride the range for monthly wages when you're broke than scratch gravel and make something of yourself. You let your cows run with the T-Up-And-Down, and I'll bet when Tuckleton had his spring round-up you weren't even on the job. Were you?"
"Well, I—uh—I was busy," shamefacedly.
"Fishing over on Jack's Creek. That's how busy you were, when you should have been looking after your property."
"Oh, Tuckleton's boys are square. Any calves they found running with my brand, they'd run the iron on 'em all right."
"They'd run the iron on 'em all right," she repeated. "But what iron?"
"Why—mine. Whose do you suppose?"
"I don't know," she said candidly. "I'm asking you."
"Shucks, Sally Jane, those boys wouldn't do anything crooked. Tuckleton wouldn't СКАЧАТЬ