William MacLeod Raine

Name: A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING
Author: William MacLeod Raine

A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

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“A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING”, published in 1911, is a work by William MacLeod Raine. It explores elements such as ma'am, Westerner and rig.

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ Round the bend came a pair of bays hitched to a single-seated open rig. They were driven by a young man, and as he reached the summit he drew up opposite her and looked down into the valley.
It lay in a golden glow at their feet, a basin of pure light and silence stretching mile on mile to the distant edge of jagged mountain-line which formed its lip. Sunlight strong as wine flooded a clean world, an amber Eden slumbering in an unbroken, hazy dream primeval. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ For though she hated him from the depths of her proud, untamed heart for the humiliation he had put upon her, yet for the sake of that ferocious hunted animal she had left lying under a cottonwood she must bend her spirit to win him.
"I'm going to sit in this game and see it out," he said, not unkindly.
"Please!"
Her sweet slenderness barred the way about as effectively as a mother quail does the road to her young. He smiled, put his big hands on her elbows, and gently lifted her to one side. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ There ain't any limit to what a good woman will do for a man when she thinks he's got a claim on her, more especially if he's a ruffian."
With this bit of philosophic observation he rolled a cigarette and lit it.
"Him fall into bad company and be led away?" he added in disgust. "There ain't any worse than him. But he'll work her to the limit before she finds it out."
Leisurely he swung to the saddle and rode down into the valley of the San Xavier, which rolled away from his feet in numberless tawny waves of unfeatured foot-hills and mesas and washes. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ I'm surely obliged to you both for taking so much interest in me, or rather in my team. Robbery and murder are quite a family pastime, ain't they?"
The girl went white as snow, seemed to shrink before his sneer as from a deadly weapon; and like a flash of light some divination of the truth pierced the Westerner's brain. They were fugitives from justice, making for the Mexican line. That the man was wounded a single glance had told him. It was plain to be seen that the wear and tear of keeping the saddle had been too much for him. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ The men she had known had been bound by convention to respect a woman's wishes, but even her ignorance of his type made guess that this steel-eyed, close-knit young Westerner—or was he a Southerner?—would be impervious to appeals founded upon the rules of the society to which she had been accustomed. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ A revolver in his hand showed the source of the bullets.
Eye to eye the men measured strength, fighting out to the last ditch the moral battle which was to determine the physical one. Sullenly, at the last, the one on the ground shifted his gaze and dropped his gun with a vile curse.
"Run to earth," he snarled, his lip lifting from the tobacco-stained upper teeth in an ugly fashion.
The girl ran toward the Westerner and caught at his arm. "Don't shoot," she implored. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ Of course it's necessary. Think I'm going to buy a hawss I've never seen?" he asked, with deep innocence.
"I'll bring it here."
"In Texas, ma'am, we wait on the ladies. Still, it's your say-so when you're behind that big gun."
He said it laughing, and she threw the weapon angrily into the seat of the rig. "Thank you, ma'am. I'll amble down and see what's behind the hill." ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ Then if you feel insulted I expect you lay claim to being a lady. But I reckon that don't fit in with holding up strangers at the end of a gun. If I've insulted you I'll ce'tainly apologize, but you'll have to show me I have. We're in Texas, which is next door but one to Missouri, ma'am. ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ And you was intending to arrange the trade from behind that gun. I expect you needed a team right bad."
His steady eyes rested on her, searched her, appraised her, while he meditated aloud in a low easy drawl.
"Yes, you ce'tainly must need the team. Now I wonder why? Well, I'd hate to refuse a lady anything she wants as bad as you do that." He swiftly swooped down and caught up her revolver from the ground, tossed it into the air so as to shift his hold from butt to barrel, and handed it to her with a bow. "Allow me to return the pop-gun you dropped, ma'am." ”

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William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger — I. A DESERT MEETING (1911)

“ After the trap had swept round a curve out of sight he disappeared in the mesquite and bear-grass, presently returning with the roan that had been ridden by the escaped convict.
"Whoever would suppose she was the sister of that scurvy scalawag with jailbird branded all over his hulking hide? He ain't fit to wipe her little feet on. She's as fine as silk. Think of her going through what she is to save that coyote, and him as crooked as a dog's hind leg. ”

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