Crossword-Solution: JEP 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Many who early in the meeting were full of rage over the restraint, and vowing to themselves to kill Allison the first good chance they got, finished by thinking he meant all right and had taken about the only practicable means "to git the boys to 'tend meetin'." In the town of Toyah, twenty miles west of Pecos, a gentleman named Jep Clayton set the local spring styles in six-shooters and bowie knives, and settled the hash of anybody who ventured to question them.

Parloe.'" "I mean," said Ruth, with patience, "anybody whom you have never seen before--or anybody whom you might suspect would steal." "Well," drawled Ben stubbornly, "your uncle, Ruthie, says old Jep ain't any too honest." "I know all about that," Ruth said.

But I reckon she thinks a heap of Willard, don't she, Uncle Jep?" "If a girl promises--" began Uncle Jepson.

But she saw Uncle Jepson grin broadly, and her face grew redder with his words: "I cal'late the man who lost that blue bandanna wasn't a tol'able piece away when that knot was tied." "Jep Coakley, you mind your own business!" rebuked Aunt Martha sharply, looking severely at Uncle Jepson over the rims of her spectacles.

She had tried to dissuade Uncle Jep and Aunt Martha from making the trip to Lazette today, but, for reasons which she would not have admitted--and did not admit, even to herself--she had not argued very strongly.