DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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"Well," I says, "we left it going east, and they'll<br />
foller us east; so don't we want to be going west<br />
while they're follering east?"<br />
Looey, he agreed with me. But he said it<br />
wouldn't be much use, fur we would likely be<br />
ketched up with and took back and hung or something,<br />
anyhow. Looey could get the lowest in his<br />
sperrits sometimes of any man I ever seen.<br />
"Don't be afraid of that," says the doctor.<br />
"They are not going to follow us. THEY know they<br />
didn't get this property by due process of law.<br />
THEY aren't going to take the case into a county<br />
court where it will all come out about the way they<br />
robbed a couple of travelling men with a fake<br />
trial."<br />
"I guess you know more about the law'n I do,"<br />
I says. "I kind o' thought mebby we stole them<br />
hosses."<br />
"Well," he says, "we got 'em, anyhow. And<br />
if they try to arrest us without a warrant there'll<br />
be the deuce to pay. But they aren't going to<br />
make any more trouble. I know these country<br />
crooks. They've got no stomach for trouble outside<br />
their own township."<br />
Which made me feel considerable better, fur I<br />
never been of the opinion that going agin the law<br />
done any one no good.<br />
They looks around in that wagon, and all their<br />
stuff was there--Jake Smith and the squire having<br />
kep' it all together careful to make things seem<br />
more legal, I suppose--and the doctor was plumb<br />
tickled, and Looey felt as cheerful as he ever felt<br />
about anything. So the doctor says they has everything<br />
they needs but some ready money, and he'll<br />
get that sure, fur he never seen the time he couldn't.<br />
"But, Looey," he says, "I'm done with country<br />
hotels from now on. They've got the last cent<br />
they ever will from me--at least in the summer