After a long pause, the lawyer went on. “I hear that James Wadsworth Longfellow Pelly is spending a few days at the Circle G, where Mr. Thomas Akers has also been the guest of Peter Gonyer. I heard that they bought a case of bourbon from the King’s Castle.”
“Mr. Akers,” remarked Henry, “is the chairman. But will the others vote with him, John?”
“I don’t know, Henry—but I’m afraid they will.”
Frijole, Slim and Oscar came in from the ranch, driving a young team to a battered old buckboard. Judge said, “You can look at that equipage and know what that new buckboard will look like in a few days.”
They met the three men on the sidewalk and Henry said to Frijole, “You take the team over to the livery-stable and hitch them to a spring-wagon. We are going to Scorpion Bend to bring back our new buckboard.”
“Vit yellow veels?” asked Oscar. “Yudas, Ay von’t to see it.”
“Who is going?” asked Judge quickly.
“Don’t you want to go, Judge?” asked Frijole.
“Ride over Lobo Canyon grades with any of you three doing the driving—at night?”