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She referred me to you." "In course, in course," said McKinstry, nodding
complacently. "She's a good woman in and around the ranch, and in any
doin's o' this kind," he lightly waved his wounded arm in the air,
"there ain't a better, tho' I say it. She was Blair Rawlins' darter; she
and her brother Clay bein' the only ones that kem out safe arter their
twenty years' fight with the McEntees in West Kaintuck. But she don't
understand gals ez you and me do. Not that I'm much, ez I orter be more
kam. And the old woman jest sized the hull thing when she said SHE
hadn't any hand in Cressy's engagement. No more she had! And ez far ez
that goes, no more did me, nor Seth Davis, nor Cressy." He paused, and
lifting his heavy-lidded eyes to the master for the second time, said
reflectively, "Ye mustn't mind my tellin' ye--ez betwixt man and
man--that THE one ez is most responsible for the makin' and breakin' o'
that engagement is YOU!" "Me!" said the master in utter bewilderment.
"You!" repeated McKinstry quietly, reinstalling the hand Ford had
attempted to withdraw. "I ain't sayin' ye either know'd it or kalkilated
on it. But it war so. Ef ye'd hark to me, and meander on a little, I'll
tell ye HOW it war. I don't mind walkin' a piece YOUR way, for if we go
towards the ranch, and the hounds see me, they'll set up a racket and
bring out the old woman, and then good-by to any confidential talk
betwixt you and me. And I'm, somehow, kamme