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Flying U Ranch

CHAPTER XI
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And he knows we won't go to opening up any real gun-fights if we can get out of it; he counts on our faunching around and kicking up a lot of dust, maybe--but we won't do anything like what he'd do, in our places.

He knows the Old Man and Chip are gone, and he knows we've just naturally got to sit back and swallow our tongues because we haven't any authority.

Mamma! It comes pretty tough, when a low-down skunk like that just banks on your doing the square thing.

He wouldn't do it, but he knows we will; and so he takes advantage of white men and gets the best of 'em.

And if we should happen to break out and do something, he knows the herders would be the ones to get it in the neck; and he'd wait till the dust settled, and bob up with the sheriff--" He waved his hand again with a hopeless gesture.
"It may not look that way on the face of it," he added gloomily, "but Dunk has got us right where he wants us.


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