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Then, lying forward till my face touched my steed's neck, I made a desperate effort quickly, for I could not trust my strength drew my injured left leg right up on to the horse's back, and lay there perfectly still for a few moments, suffering horribly from the pain of my overstrained muscles, before making another effort, and then dropped down on my right foot, dismounting on the wrong side of the horse, feeling, as I did so, everything give way.
Don Augustin awaited with the greatest impatience, the return of Gayferos; but they sought him in vain. He had disappeared. We shall presently explain the motive of his departure. Almost at the same moment in which the haciendado and his daughter were informed of it, another attendant entered to announce that Tragaduros was dismounting in the court-yard of the hacienda.
The priest shrank back with an uncontrollable recoil and then stood still and silent, watching every movement of the tall figure which had reined up and was dismounting with the ease of a boy. The judge and his nephew had made an exclamation at the sight of him; but they were merely surprised at the unusual hour of his appearance and he explained this at once. "Where is Ruth? What is wrong?
One was a native with what I took to be saddle-bags; the other was a small slim man with a sun helmet, who was slowly dismounting. Something in the cut of his jib struck me as familiar. I slipped into the empty schoolroom and stared hard. Then, as he half-turned in handing his bridle to the Kaffir, I got a sight of his face. It was my former shipmate, Henriques.
The day that his troops marched, he stopped at my door, and dismounting from his Arabian, came in to take a farewell glass, desiring his men to go on, and that he would ride after them. One glass brought on another, and the time flew rapidly away.
Dismounting in the dusk at the door of my apartments, I found a fresh surprise awaiting me in the shape of M. de Concini, the Italian; who advancing to meet me before my foot was out of the stirrup, announced that he came from the King, who desired my instant attendance in the queen's closet.
Masses of Dutchmen, well-weaponed and thoroughly fed if insufficiently washed, gathering in all quarters marching to the assembly points, dismounting, unlimbering, going into laager.
But Aunt Martha had gone in, and he turned to face Ruth, who was dismounting at the edge of the porch. "Oh!" she said, as though his appearance had surprised her, though she had seen him from afar, "you are here already!" "I expect it's me, ma'am," he said gravely. "You see, Wes Vickers stopped at the Diamond H last evenin', an' I come right over."
"Shoot him," replied Chester quietly. "Put him out of his misery." "Wait a moment," said the colonel, dismounting. "I know something about horses. Maybe it's not as bad as all that." He examined the leg carefully. When he straightened up he looked at Chester and nodded. "It's the best way," he said quietly. "There is nothing that can be done for him."
They are most attentive parents, and there is a fitness in this arrangement as regards colour, for the brown female squatted on the brown Karroo is almost invisible in daylight, while the black male is equally invisible during the darkness of the night. "You mustn't come with me," said Johnny, dismounting; "it would only increase the chance of my being seen by David."