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The herder cane back presently and helped drive the sheep over the edge of the bluff which bordered Antelope coulee. The bug-killer, upon his side, also seemed imbued with the spirit of obedience; Andy heard him curse a collie into frenzied zeal, and smiled approvingly. "Now you're acting a heap more human," he observed; and the man from Wyoming grinned ruefully by way of reply.
But the creek Flying U creek followed the devious turnings from Denson coulee down to the Flying U. A long mile of Flying U coulee J. G. Whitmore owned outright. Another mile he held under no other title save a fence. The creek flowed through it all but that creek had its source somewhere up near the head of Denson coulee.
I looked always for some little rivulet which I knew must lead us to the Platte, but we struck no running water until late that evening, and then could not be sure that we had found an actual water course. There were some pools of water standing in a coulee, at whose head grew a clump of wild plum trees and other straggly growth. At least here was water and some sort of shelter.
His mumblings ceased as if her voice had penetrated his dulled ears. Then his lips moved: "The Sand Coulee Roadhouse the Sand Coulee " "Where you trapped. Remember the bear hides you brought in that spring Katie left?" "The pack's slippin' agin them saddles is far and away too narrer and them green hides weigh like lead " He ran his words together like a person talking in his sleep.
"I believe the darned old reprobate was lyin' to us," he remarked, when the horseman disappeared into a coulee. "You sure ought to be qualified to recognize the symptoms," grunted Cal Emmett, kicking his foot out of somebody's carelessly coiled rope on the ground. "That your rope, Happy? No wonder you're always on the bum for one. If you'd try tying it on your saddle " "Aw, g'wan.
Nearest them sprawled the house, low, white and roomy, with broad porches and wide windows; further down the coulee, at the base of a gentle slope, were the sheds, the high, round corrals and the haystacks. Great, board gates were distributed in seemingly useless profusion, while barbed wire fences stretched away in all directions.
Meanwhile we were all growing away from our life in the old Wisconsin Coulee. We heard from William but seldom, and David, who had bought a farm of his own some ten miles to the south of us, came over to see us only at long intervals. He still owned his long-barrelled rifle but it hung unused on a peg in the kitchen. Swiftly the world of the hunter was receding, never to return.
On such a rainy day as comes in May after the corn is planted-a cold, wet rainy day-the usual crowd was gathered in Wilson's grocery store at Bluff Siding, a small town in the "coulee country." They were farmers, for the most part, retired from active service.
Hicks, if he were in the vicinity, kept closely under cover. Bevans had all the best of the situation, so far as being able to keep a lookout was a factor; the opposite bank of the coulée we were in towered high above us, and shut off our view in that direction. And we didn't dare risk showing ourselves on high ground.
"A rare pleasure, Doctor, to return and find a lady " She flushed at the mocking emphasis. "Cut that out; any fool can be sarcastic." "You surprise and pain me. If it is sarcasm to refer to you as a lady ?" "Where's Dubois?" He waved his hand toward the coulee and she walked away. The Dago Duke looked after her with an expression of amused speculation in his handsome eyes.
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