Two days later: "Now guess what?"
"I done quit guessing," Johnson answered.
"That Tracey woman tried to tell me this morning that my Tom was too friendly with one of those Baptismo girls."
"Pshaw!" said Lafe. "Pshaw! What does she want to go and tell them lies for? What good does it do?"
"You don't see?"
"I reckon I'm dull."
"Oh, you great baby!" Mrs. Floyd gurgled delightedly.
This display of malice disturbed Lafe greatly. Such weapons were beyond his knowledge and capacity, and he felt hotly uncomfortable when Sally intimated that they might expect Mrs. Tracey to be talking of them next—if, indeed, she had not done so already. She was for going to Rowdy Cañon without delay to bestow a tongue-lashing on the widow.
"What's the use?" the cowboy said. "Her talk can't hurt nobody. They all know you."
"Some people will believe her."