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"Why, Black Spur will be in the line of the new Divide Railroad they're trying to get a bill for in the legislature." "An infamous piece of wildcat jobbing that will never pass," said Stacy decisively. "They said BECAUSE it was that, it would pass," said Barker simply. "They say that Watson's Bank is in it, and is bound to get it through.
A fresh touch of the spur, with a wrench of the bridle-rein, brought our horses round, and set their heads after him, and then followed as fine a piece of chasing as I remember to have taken part in. The whole eight of us swept over the plain in pursuit, but as we had all emptied our pieces on first charging up, there was not one ready to deliver a shot even should we overtake the game.
He rode in silence with his chin upon his breast, the greatest and the saddest of men. Far away behind us those remorseless guns were still roaring. Sometimes out of the darkness would come shrieks and screams and the low thunder of galloping hoofs. At the sound we would spur our horses and hasten onward through the scattered troops.
"Well," answered the driver, evidently pleased at finding himself an object of interest, "wait until we round this spur here, and then we'll have a tolerable straight road ahead. I don't suppose, though, that you'll find it very interesting."
"We'll look for the pair all through the town, Mr. Reade," promised the officers. "Do! And, on behalf of the company, I'll offer a two-hundred dollar reward for the arrest of each man!" With that prospect to spur them on the policemen hastened away, followed by the young man with the bloodhound.
In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. The two women looked in silence towards the west.
There was a good wagon road to town from the Lawrenceburg plant, but of course we dared not use it so long as we were making any attempt to maintain secrecy. The alternative was a long haul down our own gulch, around the end of the spur, and across the slope of the mountain-side below.
When I learned the truth, I was tempted to leave at once; but the desire to learn more than I already knew regarding my parentage made me bold to brave discovery, and remain at least for a while, and so upon the spur of the moment I gave the name of Ruth Richards Ruth is my middle name, and Richards very nearly like that of the man who married my mother "
'You can't tear love up by the roots and plant it in a pot and call it friendship. If you try, something will happen. Excuse me if the simile sounds lyric, but I don't happen to think of a better one, on the spur of the moment. I'll behave all right before the others, but I had better go away to-morrow morning. The thing will only get worse if I keep on seeing you.
All his mind was prepared to deal with on the spur of the moment was the fact of this offer, ignoring its application and its consequences as things which for the moment lay outside his range of thought. As far as he was able to reflect, it was to assume that there was more here than met the eye.
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