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The mouth of every gulch behind him seemed to belch forth a dog and they raced across the bench, spread out for two hundred yards. Then Breed sprung one last desperate trick, a coyote trick. A badland wash intersected the flat squarely across his route and Breed leaped to the bed of it and fled fifty yards along its course, then flashed into a narrow coulee that led straight back toward the dogs.
We all got together and took our sisters along, took the axe, went into the woods and cut willows, tied them up in bundles, and put them on our backs, our sisters doing the same thing. We would go to the east of the camp, where the smoke and all of the scent would go, find a snowdrift in the coulee and unload our packs. The first thing we did was to stamp on the snow—to see if it was solid.
Instead of attempting to pick up his own trail surely obscured by now in the snow he shaped his course northwest, trusting to strike the coulée at its nearest point, and travel down until he hit the mark he had set up. It was a little longer so; but the result justified it, for there was some shelter in the coulée; and working down the bottom, they could not miss the mark.
He's about as prepossessin' to look at as an old gum boot, but his heart's all there an' you bet, Bat, he knows." It was within a quarter of a mile of Antelope Butte that the Texan, riding along the bottom of a wide coulee met another horseman. This time there was no spurring toward him, and he noticed that the man's hand rested near his right hip.
Keith showed her where she might look straight up the coulee to her brother's ranch, two miles away, and when she wished she might see what they were doing up there, he went in and got his field-glass. She thanked him prettily, and impersonally, and focused the glass upon Dick's house which gave Keith another chance to look at her without being caught in the act. "How plain everything is!
From rock and hill, ridge, ravine, and coulée, lashing their half-crazed ponies, yelling their fierce war-cries, swinging aloft their rifles, they poured resistlessly forth, sweeping down on that doomed remnant. On both flanks of the short slender line struck Gall and Crazy Horse, while like a thunderbolt Crow-King and Rain-in-the-Face attacked the centre.
"Davies, you remember our locking those papers in this drawer last night?" "Certainly." "Well, look at it now, and as I found it ten minutes ago." The drawer was absolutely empty. The closing week of March was marked by a furious snow-storm that swept the big prairie like a besom, but plugged up every coulée and ravine. For four days no communication had been held with the Ogallalla Agency.
Far down along the plain toward the Black Coulee he let the red roan out, so that the girl, keen of hearing as of sight, caught the following beat of hoofs, stopped, listened, understood and reined El Rey up to wait. And soon out of the shadows cast by the eastern ramparts, where the moon was rising, she saw the rider coming.
"I was afraid of that," she said, catching the meaning of my look. "What shall we do? We shall starve!" "Not in the least," said I, stoutly. "We are good Indians enough to make a fire, I hope." In my sheath was a heavy hunting knife; and now, searching about us on the side of the coulee bank, I found several flints, hard and white.
I believe I'd have a panoram of the coulee, a long shot from out there in the meadow. And show the brother and you leaving the house and riding toward the camera; at the gate, you separate. You're going to town, say. He rides on toward the hills.
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