"Northin' happened. That was the trouble. They never could use him again
on the pump; and every other horse we tried had to have a man stay with
it, because Whitey was the only one that had worked without bein'
watched, you see. So the Boss put in the gasoline engine down thar. When
Whitey found he was bein' fooled into jest goin' around and around and
never gettin' nowhar, he up and busted things good and plenty. An'
that's the way with people when the blind slips off. Someday, some one's
blind is goin' to slip down and then thar'll be Hell to pay with that
law in Arizona!"
"If the men who frame the laws could see each individual affected
unjustly by that law, standing before them and know how it could be
twisted to injure a life, they would be more careful in enacting a law.
Do you think for a minute, Limber, that any man, or body of men, who
passed the law giving a father sole right to his children, would endorse
that law today--if they knew what you and I know about Glendon and his
wife?"
"No! You bet thar isn't a decent man in Arizona that would stand for
it," Limber answered emphatically, "But it's thar, and we can't help it
now. Only I wisht I knowed all this yesterday, that's all. Arizona's got
some good laws. One of 'em is that the feller what draws on an unarmed
man, ain't got no right to live hisself."