[Flying U Ranch by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookFlying U Ranch CHAPTER XVI 3/14
You ain't shot so bad.
You go to shleep." So, his immediate fears relieved, Slim's slow mind had swung back to the Dots, and to Oleson, whom Weary was even now assisting to keep his promise (Slim grinned widely to himself when he thought of the abject fear which Oleson had displayed because of the murder he thought he had done, while Happy Jack obediently "played dead").
And of Dunk, whom Slim had hated most abominably of old; Dunk, a criminal found out; Dunk, a prisoner right there on the very ranch he had thought to despoil; Dunk, at that very moment locked in the blacksmith shop.
Perhaps it was not curiosity alone which sent him down there; perhaps it was partly a desire to look upon Dunk humbled--he who had trodden so arrogantly upon the necks of those below him; so arrogantly that even Slim, the slow-witted one, had many a time trembled with anger at his tone. Slim walked slowly, as was his wont; with deadly directness, as was his nature.
The blacksmith shop was silent, closed--as grimly noncommittal as a vault.
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