Arizona Round-Up — page 91: what you’re looking at

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ARIZONA ROUNDUP: 89 _ Jed Haraway looked up, his face a mass of soapy lather. “They're being very careful not to shoot that low, Sandy,” he said. calmly. “Why?” “For the reason that any vigilantes would shoot high. They want you for a rope.” “They'll never git me.. I'll shoot my head off first. I'll save a last shell.” - “That goes fer me too,” groaned the wounded Upjohn. “No droppin’ down fer Up. Hey, thet’s a funny joke. Somebody is shore supposed to laugh at thet one.” | Lance Haraway came over and squatted down beside the freighter, his face sweaty and a little dirty where he had been. wiping it with his sleeve. “Looks like cards out, Pap,” he said. “Looks that way, son.” “How come youre shaving off that beard all of a sudden?” “Lily,” Haraway answered. “She never would kiss me with it on. Swore she never would until I peeled it off. I sort of figure they'll let me give her one . . . for a good-bye.” ~ “I never thought of it that way,” the younger man replied. Bailey twisted his head, glaring. “This is a heck of a time to be jawin’ with your paw, Evergreen. Git back to that crack. Were takin’ as many as we can before they git us.” They began shooting again and the fire from the outside in- creased in intensity. The walls, already sieved, were beginning to give. Four straight charges of buckshot fired from close range blew out a big knothole and ripped the plank in two. It sagged. Presently the firing ceased. Pearson’s shouts had gone up and down the line. “Listen!” cried Bailey. “They've stopped.” “They want to talk,” Haraway replied, and wiped his lathered razor on a piece of paper. His clean shaven face was a little heavy set and solid-looking, without any fat around the cheeks and throat. Whereas he had previously looked at least sixty-five, Jed Haraway now was revealed as a much younger-looking man in his mid-fifties. Lance Haraway stared at his father in surprise. “Tl be all-fired, Pap—Id never in the world have known you if we’da met on the street and you with different clothes on. It's comicbooks.com