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I got dreaming of redcoats and U. S. marshals, and an ambush in the Barfleur Coulee, and " He saw a secret, warning gesture from the girl, and laughed, then turned to Abe and looked him in the face. "Oh, I know him! Abe Hawley's all O. K. I've seen him over at Dingan's Drive. Honour among rogues. We're all in it.
I found a trail it would make a mountain sheep seasick to follow, and I got down into the coulee. It was lonesome as sin, and spooky; but there was a spring close by, and a creek running from it; and what is a treat in that part uh the country, it was good drinking and didn't have neither alkali nor sulphur nor mineral in it.
And he added self-reproachfully: "I never thought of your cutting across the bench and riding down the trail back of the house. I meant to head you off " "It's shorter," said Jean briefly. "I if I can't stay, I'd rather go to town, Lite. I don't like to stay over at Uncle Carl's." Therefore, when they reached the mouth of the coulee, Lite turned into the trail that led to town.
Down the coulee and out into the green meadowland of the plain ran Nada, her hair streaming brightly in the sun, her arms clutching Peter to her breast. Peter was whimpering now, crying softly and piteously, just as once upon a time she had heard a baby cry a little baby that was dying. And her soul cried out in agony, for she knew that Peter, too, was dying.
I wisht I had m' thirty-thirty here I'd make him wisht his mother was a man, by golly!" Big Medicine looked toward the coulee rim. "I ain't got a shell left," he growled regretfully. "I wisht we'd thought to tell the boys to bring them rifles. Say, Slim, you crawl onto your hoss and go git 'em. It won't take more'n a minute. There'll likely be some shells in the magazines."
He might be all they said, but nothing could wipe out the facts that she had offered her life to save his, and that he had lent her his body as a living shield for one exhilarating moment of danger. As she reached the hill summit beyond the coulee, Helen Messiter was aware that a rider in ungainly chaps of white wool was rapidly approaching.
He resolved to seek the best cover available and wait till the storm should pass. He had his deer meat with him and matches. Could he but make shelter he doubted not but he could weather the storm. Swiftly he swept the landscape for a spot to camp. Half a mile away he spied a little coulee where several valleys appeared to lose themselves in thick underbrush. He resolved to make for that spot.
But a girl may not live forever in that lonely land with only Andy Green to discover her presence, and the rumors which at first buzzed unheeded in the ears of the Happy Family, stung them at last to the point of investigation; so that on a Sunday the last Sunday before the Flying U wagons took again to the trailless range-land, Irish and Jack Bates rode surreptitiously up the coulee half an hour after Andy, blithe in his fancied security, had galloped that way to spend a long half-day with Mary.
That maze of coulée and butte you see is a good cattle range. I come this way looking for strays. The last time I was here Sheila McCrae was with me." Suddenly, for Clyde, the sunlight lost its golden charm. In an altered tone she said: "Indeed!" And she added deliberately: "I don't think I ever met a nicer girl than Miss McCrae." "No nicer anywhere," he agreed heartily.
The rest broke out down the coulee and made for the breaks, where I couldn't follow. They " "Say? Old Dunk's comin'," announced Johnny, hurrying in. "Why don't yuh let 'im see the pitcher an' think all the time the Little Doctor done it? Gee, it'd be great t' hear 'im go on an' praise it up, like he always does, an' not know the diffrunce." "Johnny, you're a genius," cried she, effusively.
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