Another promised " Jet Service-Charco Broiled " Burgers.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

We ran out of money and we haven't eaten for two days ''.

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

Just cleared out.

They just all cleared out.

Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.

Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

He worked his tongue round and round in the hollow of his cheek and his voice came out of his throat, dry and cracked.

Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.

`` Keep out of this '', Purvis snarled.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

he could feel more than hear the staccato beat of hoofs that fanned out across the prairie to the north.

First, we've got to get out of here ''.

About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

`` Dean and myself will try to cut out horses to ride '', he said.

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

The guard stood in the shadow of the stockade wall just out of reach of the moonlight.

Watch out for Apaches when it comes daylight.

He picked up the powder canister and ran out.