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How had we best get at him?" The matter was talked over for several minutes, and they came to the conclusion to ride to the timber at some point below where the pony was grazing and then work up behind him. "Then, if he bolts, it will be for the prairie," said Dan. "That will give me a chance to lasso him."
'Don't quite kill him, please, Stubbs, cried Vixen, 'although he richly deserves it; and then she took the muddy little beast up in her arms and ran home, leaving her pony to fate and Stubbs. Stubbs told me the whole story, with tears in his eyes. 'Who'd ha' thought, Squire, the little lady would ha' been such a game 'un? said Stubbs."
'I did not think of him, little one, said the king. 'Where is he? 'In the stable, answered the maid. 'I found him half starved, the only horse within the gates, the day after the servants were driven out. He has been well fed since. 'Go and fetch him, said the king. As the maid appeared with the pony, from a side door came Lina and the forty-nine, following Curdie.
It was the first time since the hold-up that he had been obliged to ride at night, but there was some valuable mail that had been delayed, and that must be put through. The pony express lad was on his trip toward Rainbow Ridge from Golden Crossing, and it was dark when he reached the point where the Richfield river branched off from the Ponto.
But at least he could give her a friendly word of warning. She greeted him with the pretty reserve in her manner that had long marked her bearing toward him. "Good-morning! I've borrowed this cart of Elsie Vainer to drive down to the yacht station for lost mail. Isn't the day perfect and isn't this the dearest fat, sleepy pony, with his hair in his eyes?"
Her face was suddenly pinker than any rose that ever bloomed. With an impulse absolutely novel to him the Senior Surgeon turned and swung his little daughter very gently to his shoulder. "Your Aunt Agnes is coming to stay with you in just about ten minutes!" he affirmed. "That's what's going to happen to you! And maybe there'll be a pony a white pony."
At first there seemed to be just a chance that they might be able to march, but while they were having breakfast a full gale blew up from the south; 'the strongest wind I have known here in summer. In a very short time the pony wall was blown down, the sledges were buried, and huge drifts had collected.
He sat astride a big, black horse, much larger than the ordinary cow pony, and as he approached the camp the sun glinted in curious fashion on his face. "Four eyes!" exclaimed Snake, meaning, thereby, that the stranger wore glasses. The rising sun had reflected on their lens.
He bore evidences of his recent encounter with the mountaineer, but all this was forgotten now that the man had been taken and was safely tied up back there in the canyon with the ever vigilant Tad Butler on guard over him. A short time after that Ned was riding his pony over the plain toward the camp at a fast gallop.
He had already made up his mind to get out at an inn now in sight, hire whatever conveyance might be available, and drive back to the town, when Olivo uttered a loud "Hullo!" A pony trap suddenly pulled up, and their own carriage came to a halt, as if by mutual understanding.
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