To cut
her short, the public don't tolerate no sech rackets, an' yere-upon
I puts Texas Thompson an' this Signal party onder fifty-thousand-
dollar bonds to keep the peace.'
"Texas is set loose, with Peets an' Cherokee Hall on his papers; but
the Signal sharp, bein' strange in camp, can't put up no bonds.
"'Whlch as thar's no calaboose to put you into,' says Enright, when
he's told by the Signal party that he can't make no bonds; 'an' as
it's plumb ag'in the constitootion of Arizona to let you go, I shore
sees no trail out but hangin'. I regrets them stern necessities
which feeds a pore young man to the halter, but you sees yourse'f
the Union must an' shall be preserved. Jack, go over to my pony an'
fetch the rope. It's a new half-inch manilla, but I cheerfully parts
with it in the cause of jestice.'
"When Moore gets back with the rope, an' everybody's lookin'
serious, that a-way, it shakes the Signal party to sech a degree
that he camps down on a shoe-box an' allows he needs a drink. Boggs
says he'll go after it, when Tutt breaks in an' announces that he's
got a bluff to hand up.
"'If I'm dead certain,' says Tutt, surveyin' of the Signal party a
heap doubtful; 'if I was shore now that this gent wouldn't leave the
reservation none, I'd go that bond myse'f.
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