Crossword-Solution: PARDNERS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

After breakfast the “pardners” separated, going in opposite directions along the slope of the range, examining rocks, picking and chipping at ledges and bowlders, looking for signs, prospecting.

Look up your pardners there, gents, an' get ready to dance." Another wait set in then, and judging by the more direct rays of the sun and a receding of the little shadows cast by the choyas, Gale was of the opinion that it was a long wait.

Dyer will call.” She had a record on the phonograph; Dave Dyer was capering in the center of the floor, loose-jointed, lean, small, rusty headed, pointed of nose, clapping his hands and shouting, “Swing y' pardners--alamun lef!” Even the millionaire Dawsons and Ezra Stowbody and “Professor” George Edwin Mott danced, looking only slightly foolish; and by rushing about the room and being coy and coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel.

What are yu doin' down here an' where are yore pardners?” Thereupon Hopalong enlightened his inquisitive companion as to what had occurred and as to his reasons for riding south.

Bowers, with sad but unconquerable conviction; “because ye're both, so to speak, in a line o' idees and business that draws ye together,--to lean on each other and trust each other ez pardners.