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Page 106
Slim grinned. Going over to Echo's side, he gave her a slight
push, saying: "Go tell him."
"Jack!" was her only cry, as her husband enfolded her in his
arms.
* * * * * * *
With the next election for sheriff in Pinal County, William Henry
Harrison Hoover had no opposition, for Buck McKee's nomination
for that office of one Peruna, formerly of the Lazy K outfit, was
not ratified for several reasons, the chief of which was that W.
H. H. Hoover, alias Slim, had, just previous to election,
officially declared that the said Peruna was deceased, having
come to his death in the jail-yard of Pinal County, by a sudden
drop at the end of a new hempen rope, which did not break, as
Slim, before the ceremony, had assured the apprehensive Peruna it
would not.
The sudden and successive removals of its two most honored and
influential members, Buck McKee and Peruna, greatly demoralized
the Lazy K outfit, and the demoralization was completed by the
pernicious activity of the reelected Sheriff in interfering with
the main purpose of that industrial organization, which was the
merger of the Sweetwater cattle-business through a gradual
amalgamation of all brands into the Lazy K. One by one the
captains or cavaliers of this industry sought more congenial
regions, where public inquisition into such purely private
concerns as theirs was not so vigorously prosecuted.
It must not be thought that the social graces and persuasive
abilities of Sheriff Hoover were confined to the conduct of
legalized necktie-parties and the dispersion of outlaws. In its
extended account of the "Lane-Hope Nuptials," the Florence Kicker
devoted much of the space to the part taken by the "best man" in
the ceremony, "our genial and expansive boniface of the new
county apartment hotel." And soon after it recorded that the
same Sheriff Hoover had induced the "charming Miss Wiggins,
sister of our deputy sheriff, to be his partner for life, as she
had been for the dance at the Lane-Hope nuptials, described in
our issue of June 15," and that "the happy couple receive their
friends--which we are instructed our readers is an 'invite' to
the entire county--at their future home, the new county jail, on
the Fourth of July."
And in a "local" paragraph of the issue containing the latter
notice, the editor of the Kicker remarks:
"Remember the Sheriff's Round-up on the Fourth. As ( ), our
friend from the Sweetwater with the 'all round understanding,'
says: '} up, Slim; all the boys will be there to [pointing
finger] you a few; you'll sure see * * *.'"
End of Project Gutenberg's Etext of The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona
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