Hearts and Hands
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- Well, Mr. Easton, if you will make me speak first, I suppose I must. Don’t you ever recognize old friends when you meet them in the West?
- It’s Miss Fairchild, I’ll ask you to excuse the other hand; it’s otherwise engaged just at present.
- You’ll excuse me for speaking, miss, but, I see you’re acquainted with the marshal here. If you’ll ask him to speak a word for me when we get to the pen he’ll do it, and it’ll make things easier for me there. He’s taking me to Leavenworth prison. It’s seven years for counterfeiting
- Oh! So that is what you are doing out here? A marshal!
- My dear Miss Fairchild, I had to do something. Money has a way of taking wings unto itself, and you know it takes money to keep step with our crowd in Washington. I saw this opening in the West, and a marshalship isn’t quite as high a position as that of ambassador, but...
- The ambassador, doesn’t call any more. He needn’t ever have done so. You ought to know that. And so now you are one of these dashing Western heroes, and you ride and shoot and go into all kinds of dangers. That’s different from the Washington life. You have been missed from the old crowd.
- I love the West. Mamma and I spent the summer in Denver. She went home a week ago because father was slightly ill. I could live and be happy in the West.
- I think the air here agrees with me. Money isn’t everything. But people always misunderstand things and remain stupid...
- Say, Mr. Marshal, this isn’t quite fair. I’m needing a drink, and haven’t had a smoke all day. Haven’t you talked long enough? Take me in the smoker now, won’t you? I’m halfdead for a pipe.
- Yes, I must go on to Leavenworth.
- I can’t deny a petition for tobacco. It’s the one friend of the unfortunate. Goodbye, Miss Fairchild. Duty calls, you know.
- That marshal’s a good sort of chap. Some of these Western fellows are all right.
- Young! Why...? Oh! Didn’t you catch on? Say, did you ever know an officer to handcuff a prisoner to his right hand?
- Pretty young to hold an office like that, isn’t he?
- It’s too bad you are not going East. But you must go on to Leavenworth, I suppose?
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