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ARIZONA ROUNDUP 115° pass the word on to the boys and we'll head to the Pound. So long, and good luck, Burnett.” “We'll need it,” Tex assured him. Bessie came down the back stairs, a big bundle over one shoulder. She was frightened. Lily was sending her to the house of a friendly woman she knew, and only Lily Owens and Bessie knew that inside that bundle of clothing also were the contents of the big safe upstairs. | Tex rode out into the street, surveying what lay before him. He was wary now, cold all the way through. His cobalt eyes took in every doorway, every window where a lurking assassin might be hiding. He knew the Deacon and his crowd. He knew Pearson too. He saw something: Frenchy LeBleau and Big Thumb Barton being shoved protestingly along the street by four angry min- ers. Tex looked over toward the jail. The grim guards were still there, waiting. The shadows into the gulch were lengthen- ing now, each added inch bringing nearer the doom of the wait- ing men. The ropes were up, five bright nooses dangling from the main rafter of the building. Tex reined up. He reached into a hip pocket and brought out his handkerchief, lifted his hat and mopped his brow. It had come. This was the moment he had been waiting for, the moment he had been dreading, the moment when he had to set in motion the machinery that would either set an innocent man free or fail and let him go to his death. | Two of the lounging cowpunchers, sitting in the shade of their horses on a nearby slope, got up lazily and swung into leather. Another jogged from around the comer of the Pheasant. ' He was singing as though he hadn't a care in the world. Jake Lindsay appeared out of nowhere, reeling in the saddle, and whooping. “I'm a curly wolf!” he bellowed down the entire length of the street. “Just listen to me howll” He threw back his head and howled. Tex reined the black over and jogged at a leisurely trot toward the jail. Somebody among the crowd around the building laughed nervously. One of the freighters suddenly burst through the swinging doors of comicbooks.com