the other side.

"How's your arm feel?" Jim queried amiably.

Such concern was unusual, and Matt noted it, and replied--

"I guess there's no danger of hydrophoby. What made you ask?"

Jim felt in himself a guilty stir, and under his breath he cursed the
other's way of asking disagreeable questions; but aloud he answered--

"Nothin', only you seemed scared of it at first. What are you goin' to do
with your share, Matt?"

"Buy a cattle ranch in Arizona an' set down an' pay other men to ride range
for me. There's some several I'd like to see askin' a job from me, damn
them! An' now you shut your face, Jim. It'll be some time before I buy
that ranch. Just now I'm goin' to sleep."

But Jim lay long awake, nervous and twitching, rolling about restlessly and
rolling himself wide awake every time he dozed. The diamonds still blazed
under his eyelids, and the fire of them hurt. Matt, in spite of his heavy
nature, slept lightly, like a wild animal alert in its sleep; and Jim
noticed, every time he moved, that his partner's body moved sufficiently to
show that it had received the impression and that it was trembling on the
verge of awakening. For that matter, Jim did not know whether or not,
frequently, the other was awake. Once, quietly, betokening complete
consciousness, Matt said to him: "Aw, go to sleep, Jim. Don't worry about
them jools. They'll keep." And Jim had thought that at that particular
moment Matt had been surely asleep.