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Brannon and said
`` She won't change her mind '',
Brannon said.
`` In a year she'll like living in Clayton's house too much to come back to me '',
Brannon said flatly
.
`` All right '',
Brannon said, rising
.
`` Let's go, Marshal '',
Brannon said, and took him by the arm
.
Brannon said, `` Now the key to the lockup, Marshal ''
.
Brannon and .
The
Brannon outfit -- known as the Slash-B because of its brand -- reached Hondo Creek before sundown
.
Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom
Brannon.
Tom
Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday
.
Even as she called to the children, Conchita let her gaze seek Tom
Brannon.
Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him
.
Let Senora
Brannon live in her father's house for a time
.
Brannon looked at Hank Maguire
.
Brannon shook his head
.
Brannon timed it so that they rode in an hour after nightfall
.
If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble,
Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time
.
A lamp burned inside, but
Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty
.
They reined in there,
Brannon remaining in the saddle while Hogan went to look for Jesse Macklin in the hotel dining room
.
Brannon had no slicker
.
Brannon dismounted and climbed the steps
.
It seemed long, at least to Tom
Brannon.
`` Just come along '',
Brannon told him
.
He looked at each of them in turn,
Brannon last of all
.
`` Get it out '',
Brannon ordered
.
`` Don't try it '',
Brannon told him, dismounting and starting up the steps with his men following
.
said and .
`` In the kitchen '', he
said.
`` We didn't want town work '', Jones
said.
`` This is a mighty empty country '', Morgan
said.
`` I could use some help '', Morgan
said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything
.
`` We'll work for our keep '', the boy
said eagerly
.
`` I'll see '', Morgan
said.
`` I know '', Jones
said dejectedly
.
He
said, `` I've got some supper ready ''
.
`` I'm a mess '', she
said, and suddenly she was alarmed
.
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he
said.
`` And hungry '', he
said.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones
said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''
.
She
said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''
.
`` We're not drunkards '', she
said.
He
said: `` You'll feel a lot better after you have a bath
.
`` No, she'll be all right '', Jones
said quickly
.
`` We'll see '', Morgan
said.
He
said: `` I'm going to bed ''
.
`` You're awfully kind '', the girl
said.
`` It's all right '', he
said.
He
said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch
.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan
said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''
.
`` We got fired '', Jones
said.
It's late and you
said they'd be here by dawn ''
.
Just a half-breed 'pache, never
said much, never meant anythin to me, but he stuck with me
.
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