'
"`You-all will keep harrowin' away at this Todd party, Jaybird,'
says Enright, 'ontil you arises from the game loser. Now I don't
reckon none I'd play Apache if I'm you. Thar's too much effort in
bein' an Apache that a-way. I'd lay yere an' think up some joke
which don't demand so much industry, an' ain't calc'lated to scare
an innocent gent to death.'
"But Jaybird won't listen. He falls into admiration of his scheme;
an' at last Tutt an' Jack Moore allows they'll go along an' play
they's aborigines with Jaybird an' note how the tenderfoot stands
the racket.
"'As long as this yere Jaybird's bound to make the play,' says Jack
Moore to Enright, talkin' one side, 'it's a heap better to have the
conserv'tive element represented in the deal. So I puts it up, it's
a good sage move for me an' Tutts to stand in. We-alls will come
handy to pull Jaybird an' this shorthorn apart if they gets their
horns locked in the course of them gaities.'
"Enright takes the same view; so Jaybird an' Moore an' Tutt wanders
off up the canyon a mile, an' lays in wait surreptitious to head off
Todd. Jack tells me the story when him an' Tutt comes ridin' back
with the corpse.
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