[Trailin’! by Max Brand]@TWC D-Link bookTrailin’! CHAPTER XXXIII 14/16
You know it better'n me.
What was it you done with your own hands to Louis Borgen, the hoss-rustler, back ten years ago ?" A dead voice answered Glendin: "What has set you on the trail of Bard ?" "His own wrong doin'." The rancher waved a hand of careless dismissal. "I know you, Glendin," he said. The deputy stirred in his chair, and then cleared his throat. He said in a rising tone: "What d'you know ?" "I don't think you really care to hear it.
To put it lightly, Glendin, you've done many things for money.
I don't accuse you of them.
But if you want to do one thing more, you can make more money at a stroke than you've made in all the rest." With all his soul the deputy was cursing Nash, but now the thing was done, and he must see it through. He rose glowering on Drew. "I've stood a pile already from you; this is one beyond the limit. Bribery ain't my way, Drew, no matter what I've done before." "Is it war, then ?" And Glendin answered, forcing his tone into fierceness: "Anything you want--any way you want it!" "Glendin," said the other with a sudden lowering of his voice, "has some other man been talking to you ?" "Who? Me? Certainly not." "Don't lie." "Drew, rein up.
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