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There was no doctor nearer than Rubio City and men who pioneer in a desert land are not men experienced with sickness. On a high shelf in one back corner of the store there was a small dust-covered stock of assorted patent medicines. Desperately they pulled the bottles down and studied the labels and directions, but only to their further confusion and doubt.
And now the strange and beautiful sky could be seen through an upper window which was dust-covered and unwashed since the last summer. At first sight the sky seemed to be milky-gray-smoke-colored but when you looked longer the dark blue color began to penetrate through the shade, grew into an ever deeper blue ever brighter, ever more intense.
Smoothly the long, dust-covered coaches slid past. There was a waving of handkerchiefs and caps from the rear of the observation car, and the young man turned to look curiously about. "Hotel?" The stranger glanced doubtfully at the tough-looking citizen who reached for his suit case, and without replying stepped into the questionable looking hack standing nearby.
The Lyakhs seeing that matters were going badly for them flung away their banners and shouted for the city gates to be opened. With a screeching sound the iron-bound gates swung open and received the weary and dust-covered riders, flocking like sheep into a fold.
The other motioned him gently away. "No, no! I have told you a thousand times we are comrades and equals now." "And I've told you a thousand times, sir, that we aren't, and never will be, and don't oughtn't to be," replied the soldier doggedly, drawing off the spurred and dust-covered boots. "A gentleman's a gentleman, let alone what straits he fall into."
He had acquired his extraordinary powers through a chance encounter with a Hindu yogi. "'Son, I am thirsty; fetch me some water. A dust-covered SANNYASI made this request of Afzal one day during his early boyhood in a small village of eastern Bengal. "'Master, I am a Mohammedan. How could you, a Hindu, accept a drink from my hands? "'Your truthfulness pleases me, my child.
"O God," he prayed, "help me; guide me in this time of trial." When he awoke dim daylight was struggling in through the one frost and dust-covered window which the cabin afforded. It showed him Amos sitting quietly by the sheet-iron heater in the adjoining room, which was used as study, kitchen, dining and sitting room combined.
"Yes, come back; these places are all the same," said Briscoe, gripping him tightly by the arm; but, as he made way for Brace to pass him, and the rest went on, he stooped down quickly and picked up a piece from the heap of dust-covered stones and placed it in his pocket. "Why did you do that?" said Brace, in a low voice. "Don't ask questions now," whispered Briscoe. "I'll tell you soon.
They were delighted, therefore, when one evening, the day's work being over, they saw, advancing along the pier, a cavalier mounted on a stout mule, with a couple of attendants on foot. Till he drew near they did not recognise the mud-bespattered, dust-covered traveller as their Captain, but he soon made himself known by his hearty cheer as he saw them.
Morrison leaned forward over the bar and his brow tightened: "Guess I've hearn of you before horse-trader, bean't ye?" "Yes; if you ever want a good horse" and his small, black eyes glittered "let me know." "Got 'bout all I kin afford," replied Morrison; "twenty to work on my job now." Again Morrison looked at him; this time from his scrubby black beard to his dust-covered shoes.
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