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Gardiner now sent a gang of hands to the desired point, armed with saws; and the slip was commenced. The ice in the cove was still only two or three inches thick, and the work went bravely on. Instead of satisfying himself with cutting a passage merely behind the point of rock, Hazard opened one quite up into the cove, to the precise place where the schooner had been so long at anchor.
In the two years of his sojourn on the land it was the first time he had witnessed the operation of the Lightfoot gang, and it left a deep impression upon his mind. A great resentment rose up in him. It was the natural temper of a man who is concerned, in however small a degree, in the cattle industry.
Acclamations summoned them to the front, of course at first to see only scattered bodies of the persons on the way to meet the bride at the gate of St. Croix. By and by, however, came the "gang," as Ridley called it, in earnest.
Between the time of adjourning the poll to that of meeting again the next morning, I received no less than half a score anonymous letters, threatening my life, if I appeared at the Hall the next day. This had, of course, no weight with me; but it shows by what a gang of desperadoes I was surrounded.
"I was afraid your mother might find it and worry." "Perhaps there won't be any more trouble, now that Mr. Wernberg is out of the way," suggested Bob. "If he was the leader of the gang, his burns will keep him in the hospital and out of mischief for some time to come." "You didn't hear what happened this afternoon then?" asked his father. "No, what?" demanded Bob and Hugh in one breath.
I told that fellow and his friends that I was going to live in this place. I can't leave now." "Nonsense," said I. "What do you care for that gang?" "It would look like running away. No, I certainly don't intend to leave now." We went out to see Yank, with the full intention of spending the evening and cheering him up. He was dozing, restless, waking and sleeping by fits and starts.
'No, no; Solo goes alone! cried a foremost miner with absolute conviction. 'He has always worked alone before, but it is pretty certain that this raid was planned and carried out by Solo, and that he had behind him a gang of the coolest and most daring robbers in the colony He outwitted the troopers at every point; they had no more chance with him than so many sheep.
Says the child was made to come along, and as soon as he could get away from the gang he had to run with up here; he came right into camp to help us against them. Fine young fellow! Jondo has it from them in authority that we can trust him lyin' or tellin' the truth. He's all right." "How did he get hurt?" I inquired, still remembering in my own mind the day at Agua Fria.
"Ay, ma'am, may you sleep for baith o' us this nicht, for I daurna gang to my bed." Jean was both right and wrong, for two persons wanted in within the next half-hour, and she opened the door to both of them. The first to come was Babbie. So long as women sit up of nights listening for a footstep, will they flatten their faces at the window, though all without be black.
In the first place this was almost an unknown accomplishment with him, and in the second place the Yaquis were of his own kind reckless outlaws who would stop at nothing to get booty, either in cattle or money. It was more likely that Del Pinzo and his gang were seeking an opportunity to join forces with the band of up-rising Yaquis. "Oh, you're after the Yaquis; are you!" asked Snake.
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