Clarence E. Mulford, The Man from Bar-20 — Chapter 21 (1918)
“ SCOUTING AS A FINE ART QUIGLEY, favoring his injured arm, led the way toward Twin Buttes to relieve the men on guard, Purdy close behind him; and he did not stick to the trail, but cut straight for his objective along a way well known to both. He was not in good shape for hard work or hard fighting, but he felt that his place was on the scene of action, as befitted a chief ”
Clarence E. Mulford, The Man from Bar-20 — Chapter 21 (1918)
“ My eyes are all right, an' my Colt arm is th' same as ever. Bend low here an' foller my steps close—on th' jump, now!" Reaching the end of the wide valley they came to a great widening of the lower levels, where the canyon emerged from between the Buttes and became lost in the great sink which surrounded the Twins. Quigley knew the sink from former explorations, and he chose ridges and draws without hesitation and kept well hidden at all times from anyone up on the butte. ”
Clarence E. Mulford, The Man from Bar-20 — Chapter 21 (1918)
“ Th' time will come when he's got to come down, an' bein' there when he does is our job. If I was plumb shore he was workin' on his own hook my worries would simmer down a whole lot; an' until I am shore, I ain't overlookin' nothin'." "You ain't got no business comin' out here with an arm like that," growled Purdy. "Three of us are enough." "I ain't got no business bein' nowhere else," retorted Quigley. ”
