It was half because she felt it would prick him, and half in humility, that she answered, "I suppose that is the Indian in me."The ill-smelling room filled, and various games, chiefly faro and monte, began. At one table two men were playing out a poker game that was already of a week's duration. The reek of bad liquor mingled with the smell of worse tobacco and of Mexican-cured leather—like which there is no odor known to the senses, so pungent and permeating and all-pervading it[Pg 42] is. Several of the bracket lamps were sending up thin streams of smoke.
FORE:Taylor shrugged his shoulders. "Quien sabe? Can't prove it by me. Just vamoosed. Fell in love with a little terrier of a Greaser half her size, and cleaned out. Lawton was in here a day or two ago, lookin' for her and raisin' particular Cain with whiskey and six-shooters—bawlin' about her all over the place."
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"True, too," Brewster admitted perforce.Then the cow-boy who had touched him on the shoulder suggested that he had better take a man's drink.His teeth set. The little man gasped audibly. "Good God!" he said, "I—" he stopped.Lawton produced a brace of revolvers.His horse started. He had dug it with the rowels. Then he reined it in with a jerk that made it champ its curb. "Don't dwell on that all the time," he said angrily; "forget it." And then it flashed across him, the irreparable wrong he would be doing her if he taught her to consider the Apache blood a taint.
FORE:The fall had knocked the breath from his body. The under dog did not answer.