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"No!" ordered his father, positively, and with dark face fla "Guy an' Jacobs are dead We cain't help theht to a pitch by Esther's blaze of passion, by the agony in the face of the other wo his ar
"You won't go alone!" instantly answered the wife of Jacobs, repeating unconsciously the words her husband had spoken
"You stay right heah," shouted Gaston Isbel, hoarsely
"I'oin'," replied Esther "You've no hold over oin' out there to drive those hogs away an' bury him"
"Esther, for Heaven's sake, listen," replied Isbel "If y'u show yourself outside, Jorth an' his gang will kin y'u"
"They may be mean, but no white men could be so low as that"
Then they pleaded with her to give up her purpose But in vain! She pushed theh the kitchen with Jacobs's wife following her Jean turned to thein time to see both women run out into the lane Jean looked fearfully, and listened for shots But only a loud, "Ha!" cah relieved the tension in Jean's breast Possibly the Jorths were not as black as his father painted them The tomen entered an open shed and caot to hurry," burst out Gaston Isbel
Shifting his gaze, Jean understood the is had no doubt scented the bodies Suddenly he espied them and broke into a trot
"Run, Esther, run!" yelled Jean, with all his an to shoot The hog reached the body of Guy Jean's shots did not reach nor frighten the beast All the hogs now had caught a scent and went a toward their leader Esther and her coht behind a corral Loud and piercingly, with sohtened The leader lifted his long snout, looked, and turned away The others had halted Then they, too, wheeled and ran off
All was silent then in the cabin and also outside wherever the Jorth faction lay concealed All eyes manifestly were fixed upon the brave wives They spaded up the sod and dug a grave for Guy Isbel For a shroud Esther wrapped him in her shawl Then they buried him Next they hurried to the side of Jacobs, who lay sorave for him Mrs Jacobs took off her outer skirt to wrap round him Then the tomen labored hard to lift him and lower him Jacobs was a heavy rave Esther went back to the other But she re and did not look as if she prayed Her aspect was tragic--that of a woman who had lost father, mother, sisters, brother, and now her husband, in this bloody Arizona land