"Of course they do. So you're not going to go with Sally. You're not
going to ride a horse. You're going in another way. Everybody's seen
your picture. But who'd recognize the dashing young man-killer, the
original wild Andrew Lanning, in the shape of a greasy, dirty tramp,
with a ten-days-old beard on his face, with a dirty felt hat pulled over
one eye, and riding the brake beams on the way East? And before you got
off the beams, Andrew, the governor of this State will have signed a
pardon for you. Well, lad, what do you say?"
But Andrew, walking like one dazed, had crossed the room slowly. The
marshal saw him go across to the place where Sally stood; she met him
halfway, and, in her impudent way, tipped his hat half off his head with
a toss of her nose. He put his arm around her neck and they walked
slowly off together.
"Well," said Hal Dozier faintly, "what can you do with a man who don't
know how to choose between a horse and a girl?"
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