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This peak was found, by barometrical observation, to be thirteen thousand five hundred and seventy feet above the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It bears the name of the Great Explorer, being called Fremont's Peak. The return trip was now commenced, all of the objects of the expedition having been successfully accomplished. The party again reached Fort Laramie in the month of September, 1842.
Bayard was incensed at being ordered to so distant a station as Laramie, in the first place, his discontent was greatly augmented with the coming of the new year.
But abating in defeat and with empty pockets, nothing of their confident swagger, Carpy and Sawdy reinforced this time by Lefever McAlpin trailing along as a mourner headed again for the ranch-house after Laramie. They found him on a bench where he could command the front door, whittling and talking idly with Bill Bradley. Laramie was there intent on waylaying Kate, within.
Not a living creature was anywhere in sight, nothing with life had anywhere stirred, nothing of sound broke the silence of the morning, except when Laramie allowed them to stop the startled breathing of the horses. "Jim!" exclaimed Kate in awed restraint. "What is it?" His eyes were riveted straight ahead, but he answered in a most matter-of-fact tone: "There's somebody under that bridge."
Out beyond the ridges, indistinct in the glare, stretched an illimitable expanse, gray and dull that was the prairie-land. An eagle, lord of all he surveyed, sailed round and round in the sky. Below this grassy summit yawned a valley, narrow and long, losing itself by turns to distant east and west; and through it ran a faint, white, winding line which was the old St. Vrain and Laramie Trail.
May finished his story; and by that time the whole array had descended to Laramie Creek, and commenced crossing it in a mass. I walked down to the bank. The stream is wide, and was then between three and four feet deep, with a very swift current. For several rods the water was alive with dogs, horses, and Indians.
Laramie sat down on the side of his cot, his knees spread apart, his elbows resting on them, and his hands clasped as he leaned forward, head down, to think. "Them fellows are riding every minute," Hawk reminded him grimly. "Let's talk this thing over," persisted Laramie.
Why can't you be like that again." "But, Mr. Laramie " "No Jim." "But " "Every time you call me Mr. Laramie I'm looking around for a gentleman. Why can't you be the way you were the first time?" She realized his eyes were on her, demanding the truth and his eyes were uncomfortably steady as she had reason to know. "If I spoke I should hurt your feelings," she urged, summoning all her courage.
But the Indian runner that brought the word from Lefever and Sawdy had made it clear to Kitchen the two were depending on Laramie to help them bottle Van Horn up. Laramie laid the news before Kate at the hospital. He called her from her father's room and they talked at the end of the corridor. She looked at him wistfully: "I don't want you to go, Jim," she whispered.
The butcher, looking after them, took his surreptitious pipe from his pocket, watched the shop door close, shook his head and ramming the burnt tobacco down hard with the finger that lacked the first joint, stumped back to his lonely stove. The kitchen was farthest removed from Belle's room. Laramie started the fire with kerosene.
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