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"Lamy, are there any horses running in here that you know of?" he asked. "There probably are," said Lamy sarcastically; "an' they've probably got riders on 'em." "No doubt," returned Rathburn gravely. "I just saw some shadows that looked like horses down to the left of us." "I expected they'd shut us off in the south," snapped out Lamy. "You gave 'em plenty of time."
We'd cut our train in two, so as to pull half of it at a time up the grade at Lamy, and so there were only six cars on this end of it. The other half is seventy miles back, and part of what we have here ought to have been left at the way stations.
"Confound it!" exclaimed Neal. "The horse must have been somewhere aroun' close. He sure didn't walk down the valley." "That's probably right," said the other. "I left a couple of your men out there to keep up searching when daylight comes. That feller Lamy showed us about where they left the hosses his hoss an' The Coyote's but they wasn't there.
"He said two," breathed Lamy, a curious look in his eyes. "Are you afraid?" mocked Rathburn. "It's me they want don't worry. I may make a break for it, an' if I do there's likely to be powder burned. You can stay here an' get out when they take after me, if I go," said Rathburn, and the sneer in his voice caused Lamy to flush uncomfortably. Rathburn petted the gun in his hand.
"I've ordered that Lamy in to-morrow. I've a lot more questions to ask him. Well, you might as well get a few winks, constable; Brown and the rest of 'em have hit the hay. Even the prisoner is tired out, and that's sayin' something for as tough a bird as he is. But I wish I had his horse. I've got to have his horse!" Rathburn was smiling at the wall. He heard Neal walk to the door and look in.
"I was over there an' heard about how you stuck up that joint an' tried to blame it on some kid by the name of Lamy," said Carlisle, watching Rathburn closely. "You sure that was the way of it?" asked Rathburn casually. "No," replied the other. "I know the kid stuck up the joint an' you took the blame to keep him under cover. I don't know your reasons, but I guess you don't want the facts known.
Except the Mexican padre who belonged there the one I've spoke of that made a record, and Bishop Lamy had to bounce and sometimes the French ones from San Juan and the Cañada, who was straight as strings, there wasn't a fire-escape ever showed himself in Palomitas; and as to the ladies of the town well, the ladies wasn't just what you'd call the aunt kind.
"Did he make you guide him?" Neal asked Lamy, noting his empty holster. Rathburn turned so that he could look at his former captive. Lamy nodded. "Yes," he replied. "I didn't know what minute I was goin' to get shot in the back." Rathburn's eyes glowed with an amused light. "I didn't have any idea of shootin' him, sheriff; he was too valuable as my escort on the tour.
Lamy watched him, breathless, perplexed, uncertain. They heard men running; then there were no sounds from above and a deathly stillness settled down. Slowly and with infinite care Rathburn raised the trapdoor an inch or two and listened intently. Lamy scrambled to his knees on the pile of gunny sacks; but Rathburn swung quickly upon him. They stared at each other in the semidarkness.
Crookes, pursuing the same method, discovered the bright green band of Thallium, and obtained the salts of the metal which yielded it. The metal itself was first isolated in ingots by M. Lamy, a French chemist. All this relates to chemical discovery upon earth, where the materials are in our own hands.
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