ary.

"Are yuh hurt, Irish?" Weary called anxiously down to him.

"Never touched me," came the answer from below. "He got my horse, damn
him! and I just laid still and kept cases on what he'd do next. Come
on down!"

Weary was already climbing recklessly down to where the shadows reached
long arms up to him. It was not safe, in that uncertain light, but
Weary was used to taking chances. Irish, standing still beside the
dead horse, watched and listened to the rattle of small stones
slithering down, and the clink of spur chains upon the rocks.

Together the two went into the shadows and stood over a heap of
something that had been a man.

"I never did kill a man," Weary remarked, touching the heap lightly
with his foot. "But I sure would have, that time, if he hadn't dropped
just before I cut loose on him."

Irish turned and looked at him. Standing so, one would have puzzled
long to know them apart. "You've done a lot for me, Weary, this trip,"
he said gravely. "I'm sure obliged."

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