[The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mysterious Rider CHAPTER XVI 41/51
Make a clean breast of the whole damn bizness, if you want me to treat you white.
You must have been locoed or drunk, to double-cross me thet way.
Come on, out with it." "I've nothing to say," replied Moore. "You act amazin' strange fer a cowboy I've knowed to lean toward fightin' at the drop of a hat.
I tell you, speak out an' I'll do right by you....
I ain't forgettin' thet White Slides gave you a hard knock. An' I was young once an' had hot blood." The old rancher's wrathful pathos stirred the cowboy to a straining-point of his unnatural, almost haughty composure.
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