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It was the corporal who called to his halting and anxious fellows: "It's Bennett's Ranch! His dago's in with the news mos' dead down there on Number Four; says they've killed the whole family 'Patchie Mohaves!" There was awed silence one moment. Then a deep voice broke it, and all eyes turned on the speaker. 'Tonio. "Apache Mohave? No! No!!"
He had leaped on the unbridled horse; seized the halter, and fled at full speed. The enemy had pursued him; he had declined halting and the reader has seen the sequel. Stuart pressed the party hotly toward Sanxter's, but they escaped nearly capturing on the way, however, a party of officers at a blacksmith's shop. The general came back in high good humor. The chase seemed to have delighted him.
Neither spoke just at first there was no necessity for speech and the poor woman leant against Henchard, who supported her in his arms. "I don't drink," he said in a low, halting, apologetic voice. "You hear, Susan? I don't drink now I haven't since that night." Those were his first words. He felt her bow her head in acknowledgment that she understood.
"There is no mistake," asked Danvers, halting; "an Italian gentleman named Cesarini lodges here?" "Yes, sir, poor cretur I sent for you to come to him for says I to my boy, says I " "Whom do you take me for?" "Why, la, sir, you be's the doctor, ben't you?"
As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note down the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words. And what I thus wrote was for no ulterior use, it was written consciously for practice.
Halting when they reached the crest, and furious at the treachery that had been practised with such success upon them, they turned again, and rushed down the hill, scattering the Boers, who still clung to their shelters, with their fire. It was just six o'clock when the Devons carried the last defence of the Boers and then with the Manchesters swept down into the camp.
While halting on the march it was Rader's amusement, especially when some outsider was passing by, to set his whip-stock as a prop under it, go through the motions of grinding, and rattle off the music of a hand-organ with his mouth until chased away by his victim. He mysteriously vanished from Rockbridge after the war, and has never since been located.
"Oh!" he exclaimed, halting abruptly. "I promised to send you back by land, if you preferred." "Has the wind fallen?" "Oh, no. We shall have a good breeze:" "I won't put you to the trouble of getting a horse. I can go back perfectly well in the boat." "Well, that's what I think," he said cheerily. She did not respond, and he could not be aware that any change had come over her mood.
Edward, on finding from the reports of his marshals who had been sent to examine the bridges, that no passage across the river could be found, turned and marched down the river towards the sea, halting for the night at Oisemont. Here, a great number of peasantry attempted a defence, but were easily defeated and a number of prisoners taken.
From San Gorgonio, they followed the trail that leads down to upper Clear Creek halting, one night, at Burnt Pine Camp on Laurel Creek, above the falls. Then leaving the Laurel trail they climbed over a spur of the main range, and so down the steep wall of the gorge to Lone Cabin on Fern Creek.
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