Chapter 12
CORSON SPEAKS"'COME here!' he yells then to the rest o' us boys,
'Step up to the fun'ral an' don't make no noise
The while we inter all the barb-wire what's here,
After which we'll dispose o' the seegars an' beer.'"
sang Texas Pete. "Hello! See who's came!"
Bull entered the bunk-house with a grin and a nod. "Still
singin' I see, Pete," he said. "Ain't you finished thet one
yit?"
Two weeks had slipped by since the arrival of Corson and Miss
Manill. Bull had just been relieved from duty as bullion guard and
was only now returning to the home ranch. In the weeks that he had
brought the gold down from the mine there had been no holdup-The
Black Coyote or Gregorio had not once been seen.
"How's everything?" asked Bull.
"So-so," replied Texas Pete.
"Where's Colby? I go
