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Now, my boy" he took hold firmly of Dan's arm "I am going to put you to bed." "No, you ain't," said Dan. "I've chores to do. I can't be spared." The Professor nodded. "You're a stout fellow. After all, half-an-hour won't make any material difference." "In half-an-hour you'll find me in the bunk-house. I'm obligated to ye," he added hastily. "So long!" He strode off.
When she could see once more, he was gone, but men were leaping out through the door of the bunk-house, shouting in excitement. One of these caught sight of her, and fired, the bullet chugging into the end of a log, so closely it caught a strand of her hair, but, before another shot could follow, she had seized the shutter, and closed the opening, driving the latch fast with the revolver butt.
He would have been a bizarre figure at a city table; nevertheless, he presided at his own board with dignity, and was a splendid foil for the charming figure of Frances opposite. In the midst of the repast the Captain said, suddenly, to the soft-footed Chinaman: "Ming! telephone down to Sam at the bunk-house and see if a hobo has just struck there, on his way to Amarillo.
The company also had a saw-mill. Buildings of huge, squared timbers flanked three sides of the inner stockades the dining-hall, the cook-house, the bunk-house, the store, the trader's house. There were two bastions, and from each cannon pointed. Close to the wicket at the main entrance stood the postoffice. Only a fringe of settlement went beyond the company's farm.
The bunk-house was open, but the house across from it was locked, and Andy knew immediately that the Baileys had driven to town, because the pup was gone, and he always followed the buckboard. Pete was not displeased, for he wanted to shave and "slick up a bit" after his long journey.
A tall, lank form detached itself from the black shade of the bunk-house as she went by, hesitated perceptibly, and then followed her down to the corral. When she had gone in with a rope and later led out Pard, the form stood forth in the white light of the moon. "Where are you going, Jean?" Lite asked her in a tone that was soothing in its friendliness. "That you, Lite?
Hours later, when the men stamped in noisily to the wash-bench, he was sitting there in the dark thinking. The results of Daddy Dunnigan's cooking were soon evident in the Blood River camp. Men no longer returned to the bunk-house growling and cursing the grub, and Moncrossen noted with satisfaction that the daily cut was steadily climbing toward the eighty-thousand mark.
As it was, he cleared out before I could do it," said Macartney blackly, but the excitement had gone from his voice. "Call a couple of the bunk-house men to carry these four back to their shack and clean up this mess, will you? And come into my room while I tie up this cut. It's no good going after whoever was here now."
There was a challenge in him which I at once accepted. It was in his looks and in his words. It was an intimation that he was master that missionaries were somewhat feeble-minded and had to do with weak people. I was not very well acquainted with the bunk-house at the time, but I outlined a plan of campaign the major part of which was the capture of this primordial man. Could I reach him?
One of the drivers, a Swede, produced an accordion; a group on the steps of the bunk-house listened, with alternate gravity and shouts of laughter, to the acknowledged story-teller of the gang. But soon the men began to turn in, stretching themselves at full length on the horse blankets in the racklike bunks.
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