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The furriner," she told Raines, was the only man who had ever been able to manage her, and if she wanted Easter to do anything " ag'in her will, she went to him fust "-a simple remark that threw the mountaineer into deep thoughtfulness.
This gentleman was horrified, and uncertain what could be done, if indeed he could do anything, hastened to Kit Carson, to whom he made known the story. The mountaineer listened eagerly, and, as soon as he grasped the whole plot, declared there was reason to believe it was not too late to frustrate it.
We may perhaps find a way down after all, but in order to do so we must have our wits completely about us; let no man move, therefore, until he has fully recovered the control of his nerves; when all have done so we will make a start, and I will go last." "And I first," exclaimed the baronet, "because, next to you, I believe I am the most experienced mountaineer of the party."
The youth of General Wood and himself had been so different that he had never before recognized what there was in this illiterate man to attract a cultivated woman. The crude mountaineer had seemed to him hitherto to be a soldier and nothing else; and soldiership alone, in Prescott's opinion, was very far from making up the full complement of a man.
A life on the prairies of the "Far West" has its good chances as well as its counter chances, and no man can be happier than the true mountaineer.
"Tol'ble," grunted the old mountaineer. "Are the dogs ready?" Ben nodded. "Start morning," he said. "Good," shouted the boys. "We couldn't imagine where you had been keeping yourself all the time," added the Professor. "Lige went over to your cabin last night and found it locked." "Been away, Ben?" asked Lige. "Over to Eagle Pass. Miners steal old Ben's hogs one, two of them.
"Them Falins have got kinsfolks to burn on the Virginia side and they'd fight me tooth and toenail for this a hundred years hence!" He puffed his pipe, but Hale said nothing. "Yes, sir," he added cheerily, "we're in for a hell of a merry time NOW. The mountaineer hates as long as he remembers and he never forgets."
"It's Greevy and his girl, and the half-breeds," he said, with a note in his voice that almost seemed agitation, and yet few had ever seen Sinnet agitated. "Em'ly must have gone up the trail in the night." "It's my turn now," the mountaineer said hoarsely, and, stooping, slid away quickly into the undergrowth. Sinnet followed, keeping near him, neither speaking.
But Harpagus does not leave him alone, nor perhaps, do his own thoughts. He has wrongs to avenge on his grandfather. And it seems not altogether impossible to the young mountaineer. He has seen enough of Median luxury to despise it and those who indulge in it.
I had just limped down the mountain with a sprained ankle. A crowd of women was gathered at the edge of the woods, looking with all their eyes to the shanty on the river-bank. The girl stood in the door-way. The mountaineer was coming back from work with his face down. "He hain't seed her yit," said one. "He's goin' to kill her shore. I tol' her he would.
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