"'This pore maverick is plumb Eastern, that's all,' says Enright one
day, while he's discussin' of this Slim Jim. 'He ain't to blame, but
he ain't never goin' to do, none whatever, out yere. He can't no
more get used to Arizona than one of the Disciples, an' he might
camp 'round for years.'
"It's mebby hard onto a year when along comes the beginnin' of the
end as far as this Slim Jim's concerned, only we-alls don't know it.
The postmaster says afterward he gets a letter; an' by what's found
on the remainder it looks like the postmaster's right, an' this
letter sets him goin' wrong. I allers allows, after he gets this
missive, that he sees the need of money that a-way an' plenty of it;
an' that it's got to come quick.
"Most likely he's been bluffin' some parties in the East about how
rich he is an' how lucrative he's doin',--sech bluffs bein' common
in the West,--an' now along comes events an' folks he's fooled, an'
his bluff is called.
"When it arrives, none of us knows of this yere letter the
postmaster mentions, an' which is later read by all; but it's about
that time Slim Jim acts queer an' locoed. He's flustered an'
stampeded about somethin', we-alls notes that; an' Dave Tutt even
forgets himse'f as a gent so far as to ask Slim Jim what's up.
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