“You’ll pay for this, Kern,” said Big Medicine.
“Oh, all right,” laughed Baldy. “Anyway, you won’t be here to see it, so don’tcha worry about me. Get up here, Gonzales, and let’s get this thing over.”
Gonzales slouched to the front and tried to take Wanna by the arm, but she avoided him.
“Stand still!” snapped Baldy. “Yuh don’t want to be tied, do yuh? C’mere, priest.”
Father Francisco came forward slowly. He seemed very pale in the yellow lamplight; and his lips were set in a determined line.
“I refuse to perform this ceremony,” he said slowly.
“It is against the laws of God and man to do this thing.”
“Oh, the hell it is!”
Baldy gritted his teeth and grasped the priest by the arm, causing him to wince with pain.
“You go right ahead and perform this marriage ceremony, or there’ll be one priest runnin’ loose in Mexico without ears.”