But I'm in no sech fix
financial as makes it right for me to get put in the hole for fifty
thousand dollars by no stranger, however intimate we be. But yere's
what I'm willin' to do: If this sharp wears hobbles so he can't up
an' canter off, why, rather than see a young gent's neck a foot
longer, I goes this bail myse'f.'
"The Signal party is eager for hobbles, an' he gives Tutt his word
to sign up the documents an' he wont run a little bit.
"'Which the same bein' now settled, congenial an' legal,' says
Enright, when Tutt signs up; 'Jack Moore he'ps the gent on with them
hobbles, an' the court stands adjourned till further orders.'
"After he's all hobbled an' safe, Tutt an' the Signal party starts
over for the post-office, both progressin' some slow an' reluctant
because of the Signal party's hobbles holdin' him down to a shuffle.
As they toils along, Tutt says:
"'An' now that this yere affair ends so successful, I'd shore admire
to know whatever you an' that cut-throat takes to chewin' of each
other's manes for, anyway? Why did you refoose to bow?'
"'Which I never refooses once,' says the Signal party; 'I salootes
this Texas gent with pleasure, if that's what he needs.
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