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We were in the Texas Rangers together, and pulled each other through a lot of close places. And then at the end Why, it hurt me more than it did losing my own little girl." Bucky nodded. Since he was a man and not a father, he could understand how the hurt would rankle year after year at the defalcation of his comrade. "That's another kink we have got to unravel in this tangle.
Another regiment was in reserve. The rangers, with Robert, Tayoga and Willet, still hovered on the flanks. Robert felt intense excitement.
"You blockheads don't seem to understand what I want and what I am trying to do," shouted the general, wrathfully. "All you who volunteer for the Confederate service answer to your names, and speak up so that I can hear you. I hope that is sufficiently plain. George Warren!" The Rangers, one and all, drew a long breath of relief and felt like giving a hearty cheer.
He seemed to think he owned the Canyon, the sky overhead, the dirt underneath, and particularly the trail thereinto. His hirelings were numerous, and each and every one was primed to worry Uncle Sam's rangers. As dogs were prohibited in the Park, every employee of the Senator's was amply provided with canines.
Presently they were abreast of Duane's position, so near that he could hear the creak of saddles, the clink of spurs. "Shore he crossed the river below," said one man. "I reckon you're right, Bill. He's slipped us," replied another. Rangers or a posse of ranchers in pursuit of a fugitive! The knowledge gave Duane a strange thrill. Certainly they could not have been hunting him.
This was quickly done, and to Rodney's great disappointment, though not much to his surprise, the proposition was defeated by a large majority. The Rangers were opposed to deserting their State in a body and going into another. "I'll not stay at home, and that's all there is about it," said one of the Rangers who had voted with the minority.
The British had no adequate force of artillery to reply to the iron storm, and the balls swept through their lines, mowing down their ranks, and causing great loss. The regiments in reserve lay down to avoid the iron shower, while the Rangers and 48th prepared to resist the French when they came within fighting distance.
In this way, General Julius Stahel, who had invaded Mosby's Confederacy with two brigades of cavalry and four pieces of artillery for the avowed purpose of utterly demolishing the Rangers, was so annoyed that he retired, thoroughly disgusted with an enemy "who only fought when they got their foe at a disadvantage."
"Nevertheless," she took him up, raising her face, slightly flushed by the heat, "all the men-folks are busy, and this one woman-folk is not harmed a bit by playing at being a farmer lassie." "One of the rangers could do it all in a couple of hours." "The rangers are in the employ of the United States Government, and this garden is mine," she stated evenly.
I'm incapable of jesting at such a moment." "Ma'am! ma'am! I see one of the rangers, ma'am, at a distance; so don't lose a moment, but get into the chaise at once." "Well, sir, let us away; for I have now gone too far to retract." "Help my mistress into the chaise, sir. Lord! what a man it is."
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