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Looks like we might be in for a speck of trouble ''.

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

Figger we got to be plumb careful with any of you Highlands big shots ''.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.

`` But the sun'll fry it out'n me onct we git to rolling ''.

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --

`` Shall we get out of here ''??

`` Just befoh he left foh his academeh we wuh hevin dack-rihs on the vuhranduh, Major Roebuck an Ah, an Huhmun says ' May Ah hev one too '??

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??

Haven't we haven't I seen you.

`` That's the last one we did.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

How will we work it out ''??