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"The two crowds must be in with each other, otherwise wot was them young fellers as is now with Dillon doin' at Abe's house?" "We'll find out their game, sooner or later," muttered Sol Blugg. "We'll keep on their trail but we mustn't let 'em see us, or they'll take to some side-trail and put us in blind."
The air was regenerative, and though a part of this elation was due, no doubt, to the power of his singularly attractive guide, he laid it discreetly to the climate. After shacking along between some rather sorry fields of grain for a mile or two, Berea swung into a side-trail. "I want you to meet my mother," she said.
"Shure, miss," assured the marshal softly, clearly realising that he had already gone the limit, and that any further questioning must lead inevitably to trouble. "If it is Sunken Valley I'm ter ride ter, thet's aisy." "Then it's good night." She vanished up the side-trail, as though the wind had blown away a shadow.
We'll have to side-trail, or they'll ride us down." "I could go on," Lahoma answered, as she drew bard on the bit, "but I wouldn't like to leave you here by yourself." "You couldn't travel that distance by yourself. And good as your horse is, it wouldn't last. But thank you for thinking of me," he added, smiling in the darkness, as he dismounted. "Let me lead your horse as well as my own."
"We hadn't gone more than four miles before we saw in the trail the deep cut of a wagon-track that struck in from a side-trail that led to an eastern lumber-town. "'Huh! Must be pretty heavy pulling for the horses, said Dean, knowing that it would take a heavy load to make the wheels sink down so far in the soft soil. "'Were they here yesterday, when you came by? I asked.
I crawled through another struggling side-trail further on and this time reached the stream, but at a bank too sheer and bush-matted to descend. The third attempt brought me to where the river made a graceful bend at my feet and I descended an abrupt jungle bank to drink and stroll a bit along the stony shore; then plunged in for a swim.
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