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Its Indian guides had run away in the night, scared out of their wits by the size of the British army. It was soon lost and, circling round, came between Howe and Abercromby. Suddenly the rangers and the French met in the dense forest. 'Who goes there? shouted a Frenchman. 'Friends! answered a British soldier in perfect French. But the uniforms told another tale and both sides fired.
It was a struggle, but she managed to summon another smile. "Wife sister sweetheart?" The man stared dubiously on her, and Sally, mother to five hundred wild rangers, knew the symptoms of a man eager for a confidant. She slipped into the opposite chair. "It might be any of the three," she went on gently, "and I know because I've seen him work."
Some of the Rangers had surrendered under promise of Quarter, but we afterwards heard that they were tied to trees and hacked to death because the indians had found a scalp in the breast of a man's hunting frock, thus showing that we could never expect such bloody minded villiains to keep their promises of Quarter.
Each, perhaps, had some vague conception of the enormity of Rojas's love or hate some faint and amazing glimpse of the gulf of human passion. Those were cold, hard, grim faces upon which the light flickered. "Sleep," said the Yaqui. Thorne rolled in his blanket close beside Mercedes. Then one by one the rangers stretched out, feet to the fire. Gale found that he could not sleep.
It is a grand cry of gladness like a clap of thunder, with its lightning flash bursting forth from the cloud in which in has been pent up. After it some words spoken more coherently give the key to its jubilant tone. "Texas Rangers! Ye've jest come in time. Thank the Lord!" Not necessary to say that the horsemen riding up to the ranche are Captain Haynes and his company of Rangers.
He took quarters at the hotel, but spent a larger part of each day in Berrie's company a fact which was duly reported to Clifford Belden. Hardly a day passed without his taking at least one meal at the Supervisor's home. As he met the rangers one by one, he perceived by their outfits, as well as by their speech, that they were sharply divided upon old lines and new.
That fateful morning found Duane outwardly calm, but inwardly he was in a tumult. He wanted to rush to Val Verde. Would Captain MacNelly be there with his rangers, as Duane had planned for them to be? Memory of that tawny Poggin returned with strange passion. Duane had borne hours and weeks and months of waiting, had endured the long hours of the outlaw, but now he had no patience.
It was a perilous life, and a strenuous one, for every white man's hand was against the traders; there were rangers in fog and gale, and the reefs that lay in the tideways of almost uncharted waters; but Wyllard made the most of his chance.
I belong to the partisan rangers, and we'll cut through to Johnston's army before daylight. If not, we'll take to the mountains and keep up the war forever. The country is ours, what's to hinder us?" He spoke passionately, and at each sharp exclamation the black horse rose on his haunches and pawed the air. Dan shook his head.
The assault still continued, but in vain; and at six there was another effort, equally fruitless. From this time till half-past seven a lingering fight was kept up by the rangers and other provincials, firing from the edge of the woods and from behind the stumps, bushes, and fallen trees in front of the lines.
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