[The Iron Furrow by George C. Shedd]@TWC D-Link bookThe Iron Furrow CHAPTER VI 4/9
And I'll leave Mike here also.
If anybody comes fooling around, he'll take a piece out of the fellow's leg." In addition to nailing the windows and leaving Mike at the door, much to his dissatisfaction, Bryant secreted his papers, note-books, and maps, the theft of which would be an extremely serious loss.
Menocal probably would not instigate open lawlessness, but his hirelings might break into the house on their own initiative.
And this was not unlikely since a bitter feeling was systematically being aroused against Bryant and his project among the preponderate Mexican inhabitants. But for the time being he dismissed this matter from his thoughts, when with tripod and rod and a bundle of stakes on Dick's saddle he and Dave set out for Sarita Creek, leading the horse.
Bryant had postponed, under pressure of work, the business of fixing the feminine homesteaders' garden ditch, until his conscience began to prick him on the subject.
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