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Reggie Chugwater, the eldest son, the heir, the hope of the house, was reading the cricket news in an early edition of the evening paper. Horace, his brother, was playing pop-in-taw with his sister Grace and Grace's fiance, Ralph Peabody. Alice, the other Miss Chugwater, was mending a Badminton racquet.
The next morning we were off at six. Our road lay in the green valley of the Chugwater, under the pale bluffs, channeled and seamed by the rains into strange shapes.
"I must warn you that you will resist at your peril. You wear no uniform " "Wouldn't dream of such a thing. Except at the lodge, of course." "You will be sorely tempted, no doubt. Do not think that I do not appreciate your feelings. This is an Englishman's Home." Mr. Chugwater tapped him confidentially on the knee. "And an uncommonly snug little place, too," he said.
Clarence Chugwater looked around him with a frown, and gritted his teeth. "England my England!" he moaned. Clarence was a sturdy lad of some fourteen summers. He was neatly, but not gaudily, dressed in a flat-brimmed hat, a coloured handkerchief, a flannel shirt, a bunch of ribbons, a haversack, football shorts, brown boots, a whistle, and a hockey-stick.
The visitors seated themselves. There was an awkward silence. "Warm day!" said Mr. Chugwater. "Very!" said the Prince, a little constrainedly. "Perhaps a cup of tea? Have you come far?" "Well er pretty far. That is to say, a certain distance. In fact, from Germany." "I spent my summer holiday last year at Dresden. Capital place!" "Just so. The fact is, Mr. er " "Chugwater. By the way my wife, Mrs.
If he jumps the track and starts for the railway after quitting Fetterman, let him go; wire me from Chugwater, but don't lose track of him. I'll join you at Cheyenne or Laramie City, wherever he goes, and the moment you strike the settlements put the sheriff on his trail." Three days slipped away without noticeable changes in the situation at Laramie.
One party had even dared to attack the ranches far up the Chugwater Valley at the crossing of the Cheyenne road; another had ridden all around Fort Laramie, fording the Platte above and below; and several of them had made away with dozens of head of cattle bearing the well-known brand of Mr. Holmes of Chicago.
"There is young blooming Chugwater," he said. "Then send him," said the editor. Grand Duke Vodkakoff's turn at the Magnum Palace of Varieties started every evening at ten sharp. He topped the bill. Clarence, having been detained by a review of the Scouts, did not reach the hall till five minutes to the hour. He got to the dressing-room as the general was going on to the stage.
"Now, if you will forgive me for talking business, you, I gather, propose making some stay in this country." The prince laughed shortly. So did his aide-de-camp. "Exactly," continued Mr. Chugwater, "exactly. Then you will want some pied-a-terre, if you follow me. I shall be delighted to let you this house on remarkably easy terms for as long as you please.
But Billy's restless nature would not allow him to remain idle at home, so he joined a party of trappers who were going to trap the streams of the Laramie and Chugwater for otter, beaver and other animals possessing valuable fur, as well as to shoot wolves for their pelts.
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